2026 Elections are now open

ALL MEMBERS INVITED

Six-Week Voting Period

Deadline: March 10, 2026

All members of CIES for the 2025 calendar year are eligible to vote. The election spans six weeks, starting in January 2026 and concluding in February 2026.

The OED will determine if the threshold of 20% of members voting (as required in the CIES Constitution Article VI Section 4) has been met by comparing the number of votes cast with the CIES member count as it stood when the elections opened. A public announcement of results will be shared with the CIES membership.

The elected officials will begin their terms during the State of the Society Business meeting at CIES 2026 in San Francisco, scheduled for March 28-April 1, 2026.

Candidates on the Ballot

Vice President (1 position)

Rebecca Clothey
Drexel University

Riyad A. Shahjahan 
Michigan State University

Roozbeh Shirazi
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Secretary (1 position)

Emily Dunlop
University of Toronto

Lin Ge
University of Regina

Treasurer (1 position)

D. Brent Edwards
University of Hawaii

Hyun-Sook Kang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Jeffrey Lee
Community Development Network

Student Representative (1 position)

Bhushan Dahal
Florida State University

Shaheena Salim Jumani-Alwani
Aga Khan University

Logan Pender
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Abigail Smith
University of Maryland, College Park

Tarang Tripathi
University of California, San Diego

Anthony Lewis Wagner
New York University

Board Members at Large (2 positions)

Maia Chankseliani 
University of Oxford

Pempho Chinkondenji 
University of North Dakota

Karishma Desai 
Rutgers University

Amy Jo Dowd
Brink Foundation

Diana Rodríguez Gómez 
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Garnett Russell
Columbia University