KASA’s board of directors shapes the organization’s direction, ensures its accountability, and provides the governance structure that allows a nonprofit to operate with integrity. The people who sit on the board are not distant overseers — they are community members who bring specific expertise and deep commitment to KASA’s mission.

This year’s elections brought three new members to the board, each contributing something distinct. One is a Kurdish American healthcare professional with experience in public health and community health programs — background that will strengthen KASA’s thinking about health-related community needs. One is a second-generation Kurdish American with a career in nonprofit management — someone who has seen what organizational infrastructure looks like from the inside and can help KASA build it properly. One is a recently retired educator who spent decades in American public schools and brings a perspective on language learning and youth development that will inform our educational programs.

KASA thanks the outgoing board members for their service and welcomes the new ones. Board work is largely invisible from the outside — it happens in meetings and documents rather than at events — but it is foundational to everything the organization does.