2025 AAA Annual Membership Meeting Recap


Thank you to everyone who joined us for our 2025 annual membership meeting at the Greats of Craft. We celebrated our successes, recognized the outstanding service of a few of our extraordinary observers with board awards, and recognized a dozen or more of our dedicated observers with Astronomical League Awards, while meeting new and old friends.


We held our annual elections for the board of directors, led by Kat Troche and our nominations committee, and warmly welcomed our new incoming directors, who bring leadership, vision, expertise, and diversity as we move AAA forward.
New directors:
- Lydia Maria Petrosina
- David Gluchowski
- Marcy Cohen
- Sophia Straus
- Rick Mavrovich
- Keyana Patterson
- Mary Alford
- Joel Gonzalez
- Rhonda Weir
- Gabriela Levit
- Kaitlin Demchuck
Returning Directors:
- George Roush
- Chirag Upreti
- Willie Xu
- Dan Kirby
- Alfredo Viegas
Remaining directors:
- Bryanne Hamill
- Stan Honda
- Preston Stahly
- Dave Kiefer
As your outgoing Chair of the Board of Directors, it has been a privilege and honor to serve you and our unique membership charitable nonprofit corporation (also known as our club) as we approach our 100th anniversary. As an all-volunteer member organization, we are much stronger and more successful working together. Thus, I thank each of you for your membership, support, passion, and dedication to promote astronomy and share the wonders of the cosmos you enjoy.
That said, I invite you to take one or more of these action steps as we move forward:
- Please review our website and volunteer to serve on a project and/or committee of your interest.
- Donate to AAA to support our programming and the expansion of our reach.
- Contact our new VP of Membership and Marketing, Lana Jokhan, with any questions, including how to become involved: [email protected]
- Attend an observing session or online class, take a telescope training course, view our stunning astrophotography from our remote telescopes and beyond, or submit an article to Eyepiece.
Please save the date and attend our 2025 Star-BQ at Pioneer Works on August 24, 2025, to meet your fellow stargazers.
Bryanne Hamill
Outgoing Chair of the Board