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Biography

Charmaine has been attending CONvergence since the beginning. She has been a Head of ConSuite, Operations, Hotel, and the Grove most recently. She has also been a CoChair of the Vision and Scaling Committee which morphed into the Future Visioning Committee. She has also been a member of the Election Committee the past few years but recused herself this cycle.
She was appointed to the Board as Interim Director of External Relations and Membership Communications in March 2022. She is currently serving as President of the Board.
Outside of CONvergence she is a voracious reader of science fiction and consumer of movies and TV shows in that realm, especially space opera, hard SF, and urban fantasy. She is also a semi retired GL accountant. She lives and works in Deerwood, MN.