Volunteer Opportunities

Conference Co-chair: Oversees the Annual Conference. Is responsible for overseeing the development of sessions and workshops, as well as well as ancillary programs like the bookstore and member networking.

Journalism Track Chair: Coordinate panels and speakers for the Journalism Track

Content Marketing Track Chair: Coordinate panels and speakers for the Content Marketing Track

Books Track Chair: Coordinate panels and speakers for the Books Track

Publicity: Coordinate conference promotions through ASJA’s publications and social media

The Membership Engagement Committee is critical to the health and success of ASJA. It is a great way for members to connect with one another to expand their network and welcome new members to the organization. Roles and responsibilities include working on ASJA’s new member welcome process, our non-member outreach, general membership communications and existing and future member benefits.

ASJA’s webinars and masterminds are offered at least once a month. Volunteers help recruit speakers, panels, and moderators. Responsibilities include coordinating the schedule and technology with staff; collecting speakers’ and panelists’ headshots and bios, as well as session descriptions; and promoting the events in ASJA Weekly.

Our annual awards program highlights stellar nonfiction articles, essays, books, and content marketing writing in a variety of categories. The committee works to perfect the submission and judging process, consider new categories and other opportunities for ASJA to expand and increase the value of the awards program.

The Client Networking Committee works on recruiting clients to participate in the various Client Connections programs and Virtual Pitch Slam. Volunteering on this committee is a great opportunity to connect with new and existing clients to bring them to ASJA. It helps to expand member’s networks as well as your own.

The DEAI Committee examines and updates ASJA’s programs and practices to be diverse, equitable, accessible, and inclusive. If you’re passionate about this topic and want to be involved as ASJA undergoes this project we encourage you to join the committee.

The Publications Committee is in charge of the ASJA Confidential news channel and the ASJA Weekly newsletter. There are various roles for committee volunteers within these programs, from helping to review the magazine and copy editing to coordinating blog posts.