Nominations2021NAREE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jeff Collins has been an award-winning housing and real estate writer at the Orange County Register and The following members Southern California News Group since 2004. He has worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for over have been nominated to serve 30 years at various news organizations, including the on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Daily News, El Paso Times and Dallas Times Herald. He has a master’s in journalism from National Association of Real Estate Editors. the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s in Spanish from the University of California, Irvine.

For Vice President EILEEN MCELENEY WOODS For Active Director ELI SEGALL Eileen McEleney Woods is the editor of the Boston Eli Segall reports on residential and com- Globe’s Sunday real estate section, Address and its mercial real estate for the Las Vegas companion e-newsletter. She is also the editor of Review-Journal, which he joined in 2016 realestateboston.com. She joined the Globe as an after covering real estate and other busi- editor in 1999. A graduate of the University of New ness topics at the Las Vegas Sun. He has Hampshire, Woods was a copy editor at the Las also worked for the Silicon Valley/San Vegas Review-Journal and held reporting positions at Jose Business Journal, The Associated Press The Vermont Standard and the Greenfield Recorder and other news groups. in Massachusetts. She has been a winner in NAREE journalism competitions.

For Second Vice President KRIS HUDSON For Active Director CAMERON SPERANCE Kris Hudson, a NAREE past president, is director of communications & media at commercial real estate Cameron Sperance is the hospitality services company CBRE. Prior to joining CBRE in 2015, reporter at Skift. His work during the coro- Kris covered real estate for The Wall Street Journal’s navirus crisis includes coverage of the hotel Dallas bureau for 10 years after working for The industry’s struggles as well as one-on-one Denver Post, The (Boulder) Daily Camera and the Palm streamed interviews with executives of Beach Post. Kris served on the NAREE board for several Marriott, Hilton, and IHG. Prior to joining years and was president in 2013. Skift, Sperance wrote for Bisnow and the Boston Herald. He has covered news of Chick-fil-A’s changes in charitable giving, the opioid epidemic’s impact on the con- struction industry, and Dubai’s explosive For Treasurer SHONDA NOVAK pace of development. Shonda Novak is real estate writer for the Austin American-Statesman. She covers the housing, retail, office, apartment and hotel markets in Central Texas, For Associate Director GINNY WALKER as well as the region's overall growth and develop- Ginny is a communication strategist and ment trends, including downtown Austin's high-rise thought-leadership expert with more than residential building boom. A University of Texas 15 years of public relations experience graduate, Novak has covered a variety of beats in her spanning television, technology, mortgage, 30-year journalism career at newspapers including residential and commercial real estate. the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise, the Albuquerque Ginny has authored numerous research Tribune and the Santa Fe New Mexican. studies related to the real estate and mort- gage industry which have been cited media For Secretary JASON HIDALGO outlets nationwide – including The Wall Jason Hidalgo is an economic development reporter Street Journal, The New York Times and for the Reno Gazette-Journal covering Tesla, technol- USA Today. Ginny works for KBS, one of the ogy and real estate. Born in the Philippines, Hidalgo largest investors in premier commercial real moved to the United States during college to pursue estate in the nation. his dream to work as a reporter in the U.S. Hidalgo has traveled extensively as a journalist, including Japan, where he did extensive reporting as a Fulbright scholar under the Fulbright Japan program. He has won a number of journalism awards, including NAREE’s best investigative report and best body of work award.