Yuri’s Night Announces 2014 Global Executive Team; Opens Event Registration
Yuri’s Night, the World Space Party, today announced the 2014 Global Executive Team and has launched event registration on their website for 2014 Yuri's Night events at http://register.yurisnight.net.
Santa Rosa, CA, August 21, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Yuri’s Night, the World Space Party, today announced the 2014 Global Executive Team. Charged with the planning and execution of Yuri’s Night activities on a global scale and supporting local events, the Global Executive Team is a diverse group of professionals, students, and enthusiasts from around the world.
“On April 12, 2014 the world will unite and celebrate the 14th Yuri’s Night, and I’m confident that our Global Executive Team team will be the best to date,” said Dr. Ryan Kobrick, Executive Director of Yuri’s Night. “Our internal goal each year is to increase our number of events worldwide. With our all-volunteer team of talented human spaceflight advocates I know that we will crush our previous numbers and continue to rock the planet!”
Dr. Ryan Kobrick will return as Executive Director for Yuri’s Night 2014, with Tim Bailey and Brice Russ serving again as Assistant Directors. Rick Hanton has been named the new Media Team Chair, while Jeffrey Alles and Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto will reprise their roles as Directors of Operations and Outreach, respectively. Returning to the Board of Directors Kobrick, Bailey, and Russ are joined by Yuri’s Night co-founder Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, and Chris Lewicki, GET alumnus and President of Planetary Resources.
Yuri’s Night today also officially launched event registration for 2014. “Building on our runaway success with 357 events on two planets and across 7 continents in 2013, we hope launching registration early will encourage people around the world to start planning events earlier,” said Director of Operations Jeffrey Alles. Anyone and everyone around the world is encouraged to think about organizing or attending a Yuri’s Night event. Register today at http://register.yurisnight.net!
The members of the 2014 Executive Team are listed below. This team supports the many hundreds of volunteers who register and run Yuri’s Night events around the world.
Operations Team
Jeffrey Alles, Director of Operations.
Stephanie Finnvik, Director of Awesome.
Nicholas De Leon, Director of Special Projects
Carolyn Belle, Director of Partnerships
Rakshatha Kabbaligere, Partnerships Developer
Siddharth Raval, Special Projects
Danielle Hannah, Special Projects
John Ferriera, Special Projects
Media Team
Rick Hanton, Media Team Chair
Zoe Strassfield, Blog Editor & Social Team Member
Dave Parmet, Yuri’s Night Press Release Manager
Matt Travis, Social Media Chair
Alyssa Henning, English-language Social Media Manager
Ekaterina Khvostova, Russian-language Social Media Manager
Maria Pflug-Hofmayr, German-language Social Media Manager
Reuben Metcalfe, Social Media Special Projects Manager
Deepak Sharma, Newsletter Editor
Erin Fowler, Video Editor
Outreach Team
Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto, Director of Outreach
Jacob Noel-Storr, Regional Outreach - US
Simon Kregar, Regional Outreach Assistant - US
John Ferreira, Regional Outreach Assistant - US
Sudeep Neupane, Regional Outreach - South America
Dennis Cedric Groves, Regional Outreach - Europe
Maria Pflug-Hofmayr, Regional Outreach - Europe
Juergen Hill, Regional Outreach - Europe
Yadav Prasad Kandel, Regional Outreach - Asia
Binod Baral, Regional Outreach Assistant - Asia
Harsh Sanghavi, Regional Outreach - India
Deepak Sharma, Regional Outreach Assistant - India
Fatemeh Hashemi Niari, Regional Outreach - Middle East
Glen Lehmitz, Regional Outreach - Virtual Worlds
Dee Robb, Preschool/Primary School Outreach
Cat Aboudara, Science Center Outreach
Kevin Zagorski, Spaceport Outreach
Laura Bishop, Media and Operations Liaison
Digital Operations Team
Jeffrey Alles, Master of Electrons
Jason CranfordTeague, Internet Strategist
Tony Rice, Data Integration Lead
Vanessa Gomez Gonzales, Software Development Lead
Ozzie Osborne, Mobile Site Technologist
Laura Bishop, Electron Engineer
About Yuri's Night
Yuri's Night is a global non-profit organization dedicated to hosting celebrations of humanity's past, present and future in space each April 12 in commemoration of Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight and the inaugural launch of the Space Shuttle. In 2013, Yuri's Night celebrated 52 years of human spaceflight with 354 events in 57 countries on all seven continents, including Los Angeles, Tokyo, Moscow, and the Second Life virtual world. For more information, visit www.yurisnight.net.
“On April 12, 2014 the world will unite and celebrate the 14th Yuri’s Night, and I’m confident that our Global Executive Team team will be the best to date,” said Dr. Ryan Kobrick, Executive Director of Yuri’s Night. “Our internal goal each year is to increase our number of events worldwide. With our all-volunteer team of talented human spaceflight advocates I know that we will crush our previous numbers and continue to rock the planet!”
Dr. Ryan Kobrick will return as Executive Director for Yuri’s Night 2014, with Tim Bailey and Brice Russ serving again as Assistant Directors. Rick Hanton has been named the new Media Team Chair, while Jeffrey Alles and Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto will reprise their roles as Directors of Operations and Outreach, respectively. Returning to the Board of Directors Kobrick, Bailey, and Russ are joined by Yuri’s Night co-founder Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, and Chris Lewicki, GET alumnus and President of Planetary Resources.
Yuri’s Night today also officially launched event registration for 2014. “Building on our runaway success with 357 events on two planets and across 7 continents in 2013, we hope launching registration early will encourage people around the world to start planning events earlier,” said Director of Operations Jeffrey Alles. Anyone and everyone around the world is encouraged to think about organizing or attending a Yuri’s Night event. Register today at http://register.yurisnight.net!
The members of the 2014 Executive Team are listed below. This team supports the many hundreds of volunteers who register and run Yuri’s Night events around the world.
Operations Team
Jeffrey Alles, Director of Operations.
Stephanie Finnvik, Director of Awesome.
Nicholas De Leon, Director of Special Projects
Carolyn Belle, Director of Partnerships
Rakshatha Kabbaligere, Partnerships Developer
Siddharth Raval, Special Projects
Danielle Hannah, Special Projects
John Ferriera, Special Projects
Media Team
Rick Hanton, Media Team Chair
Zoe Strassfield, Blog Editor & Social Team Member
Dave Parmet, Yuri’s Night Press Release Manager
Matt Travis, Social Media Chair
Alyssa Henning, English-language Social Media Manager
Ekaterina Khvostova, Russian-language Social Media Manager
Maria Pflug-Hofmayr, German-language Social Media Manager
Reuben Metcalfe, Social Media Special Projects Manager
Deepak Sharma, Newsletter Editor
Erin Fowler, Video Editor
Outreach Team
Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto, Director of Outreach
Jacob Noel-Storr, Regional Outreach - US
Simon Kregar, Regional Outreach Assistant - US
John Ferreira, Regional Outreach Assistant - US
Sudeep Neupane, Regional Outreach - South America
Dennis Cedric Groves, Regional Outreach - Europe
Maria Pflug-Hofmayr, Regional Outreach - Europe
Juergen Hill, Regional Outreach - Europe
Yadav Prasad Kandel, Regional Outreach - Asia
Binod Baral, Regional Outreach Assistant - Asia
Harsh Sanghavi, Regional Outreach - India
Deepak Sharma, Regional Outreach Assistant - India
Fatemeh Hashemi Niari, Regional Outreach - Middle East
Glen Lehmitz, Regional Outreach - Virtual Worlds
Dee Robb, Preschool/Primary School Outreach
Cat Aboudara, Science Center Outreach
Kevin Zagorski, Spaceport Outreach
Laura Bishop, Media and Operations Liaison
Digital Operations Team
Jeffrey Alles, Master of Electrons
Jason CranfordTeague, Internet Strategist
Tony Rice, Data Integration Lead
Vanessa Gomez Gonzales, Software Development Lead
Ozzie Osborne, Mobile Site Technologist
Laura Bishop, Electron Engineer
About Yuri's Night
Yuri's Night is a global non-profit organization dedicated to hosting celebrations of humanity's past, present and future in space each April 12 in commemoration of Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight and the inaugural launch of the Space Shuttle. In 2013, Yuri's Night celebrated 52 years of human spaceflight with 354 events in 57 countries on all seven continents, including Los Angeles, Tokyo, Moscow, and the Second Life virtual world. For more information, visit www.yurisnight.net.
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