WNBA- SF Chapter 2024-2026 Slate of Officers

Please elect this new slate of officers–fill out the form below! 
Deadline: May 25, 2024

We welcome the opportunity for ongoing and new WNBA-SF leadership! Please fill out this form to vote for our incoming WNBA-SF Chapter Executive Board. (Please note that in accordance with WNBA-SF bylaws, there are two Vice President positions) If you wish, you may also nominate an active, qualified WNBA-SF Chapter member as an alternative to this slate with their prior, written consent, no later than May 25th, 2024.

Thank you, Debra Eckerling, Board Development/Nomination Chair.  

The 2024-2026 online presentation of the Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter (WNBA-SF) Slate of Officers as recommended by the Board Development/Nomination Chair:

SF Chapter Bylaws: Officers and Board appointees shall take office on June 1 following the election or appointment to office. The officers shall serve a term of two years. They may serve two consecutive terms, except for the Treasurer, who may continue to succeed her/him self.

President- Brenda Knight 

Brenda Knight began her career at HarperCollins, working with luminaries Paolo Coelho, Marianne Williamson and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Knight was awarded IndieFab’s Publisher of the Year in 2015 at the ALA, American Library Association. Knight is the author of Random Acts of Kindness, The Grateful Table and Women of the Beat Generation, which won an American Book Award. Her recent book, Badass Affirmations, has sold 350,000 copies. She is Publisher at Mango Publishing Group and has served as long-time board member of the Women’s’ National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter and resides in the SF Bay Area. 

Co-Vice President – Anniqua Rana

Anniqua Rana is a writer and educator committed to eliminating inequities around her.  She has done this in collaboration with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office providing professional development and training to colleges in the Bay Area. She co-founded Aalimocracy.com a volunteer organization providing professional development to educational institutions in Pakistan. She has taught English, ESL, EFL, International Education, and Creative Writing at San Mateo Community Colleges, DeAnza College, University of San Francisco, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, and Stanford University. Her debut novel, Wild Boar in the Cane Field was shortlisted for Pakistan’s UBL Literary Award 2020. To create a platform for writers she co-founded the blog Tillism.

Co-Vice President –  Christina Vo

Christina Vo is a writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work reflects her commitment to understanding and sharing the complexities of the human experience. Christina’s debut memoir, The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home, demonstrates her ability to weave personal experiences into broader narratives about identity, home, and belonging. Her second book, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, an intergenerational memoir co-written with her father, will be published in April 2024 and was recently selected for the Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024. She has worked internationally for UNICEF in Vietnam, the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, as well as served as a consultant for nonprofits.

Secretary –  Karen Wang Diggs 

Karen Wang Diggs is a certified nutritionist, chef, and entrepreneur by day. By night, she reads, writes, and dreams. She is also a history hound keenly interested in the never-ending struggles of girls, women, and anyone who identifies as female. With a keen awareness of history’s patriarchal dominance and the suppression of female voices and achievements, Karen is on a mission. Her sincere hope is that her writing serves as a source of inspiration and enrichment for everyone, contributing to greater gender equality, social justice, and harmony in these challenging times.

Treasurer  – Duncan MacLeod

Duncan MacLeod received his MBA from University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. In addition to his work as a personal bookkeeper and finance coach, he’s a writer, advocate, and publisher of financial self-help books, young adult and mental health fiction. He is the owner and publisher at a new press called Jim Dandy Publishing.

Please elect this new slate of officers–fill out the form below! 

Deadline: May 25, 2024

Voting stops as of midnight, April 20th, 2022