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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATIONAL CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
Rhondalee A. Dean-Royce, 202.628.7001
NCGA Names Slater to Public Policy Director Position
WASHINGTON (May 17, 2004) -- The National Corn Growers Association
(NCGA) today announced Samantha Slater has joined the organization
as director of public policy. She will be responsible for legislative
and regulatory affairs concerning ethanol, the Clean Air Act, climate
change, energy and economic analysis.
“
We’re very excited to have Samantha join our staff,” said
Jon Doggett, NCGA vice president of public policy. “Samantha
brings diversified experience and remarkable passion to the position.
Her talents will be instrumental in NCGA’s mission to promote
the ethanol industry and comprehensive energy legislation that includes
a Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).”
In seven years
with the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), Slater held several
important policy positions. She began as a
policy and
research associate and gradually worked her way to manager of
state and regional affairs. Among her many duties at EPSA, Slater
monitored
all state regulatory and legislative activity related to the
power industry, preparing comments and testimony and strategic planning
for the legislative agenda.
“
I am thrilled by this new challenge,” Slater said. “I have
spent my professional career working in state and regional policy affairs;
I look forward to serving the members of NCGA in pursuit of the association’s
energy and ethanol goals and objectives.”
Slater has a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from
the American University in Washington, D.C. Slater will work in NCGA’s
Washington office.
The National
Corn Growers Association mission is to create and increase opportunities
for corn growers in a changing world and to enhance corn’s
profitability and usage. NCGA represents more than 33,000 members,
25 affiliated state corn grower organizations and hundreds of thousands
of growers who contribute to state checkoff programs.
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