About Us

Committee

Chair: Marah Searle-Kovacevic
Advser Emeritus: Sally Woehrle
Treasurer: Angela Jones
Hotel Liaison: Dick O’Shea
Program & (acting) Webmaster: Alex von Thorn
Hospitality: Joni Brill Dashoff
  Julie Amundson

Help Wanted

  • Hybrid Program Manager: work with Program and Tech Crew to plan, omonitor, and assign tasks relating to hybrid program activities.
  • Tech Crew: Set up (and tear down) computers, cameras, microphones, screens and/or projectors. During the convention, resolve technical issues, monitor online program activity (i.e. passing questions to panel moderators), and making microphones available to audience questions.
  • Virtual Program Moderators: Moderate virtual program activities. This role can be performed by remote volunteers. Pass questions and comments to at-con tech staff.
  • Web Designer: Create and update the graphics, colors, fonts, and CSS, the “look and feel” of the website.
  • Web Content: Create and update the text of web pages for the website.
  • About SWOC

    SWOC, originally the Seattle Westercon Organizing Committee, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which exists to help Northwest fandom organizing one-off and rotating conventions. SWOC is not affiliated with one ongoing convention; it is an international group which welcomes members of different groups and backgrounds. SWOC has organized many major conventions including

  • Westercon 46, Seattle in 1993, chaired by Richard Wright
  • Westercon 50, Seattle in 1997, chaired by Sally Woehrle
  • Westercon 56, Seattle in 2003, chaired by William Sadorus
  • Cascadia Con, the 2005 NASFiC held in Seattle, chaired by Bobbie DuFault
  • Westercon 65, Seattle in 2012, chaired by Bobbie DuFault
  • Sasquan, the 2015 Worldcon held in Spokane, chaired by Bobbie DuFault (deceased before the convention) and Sally Woehrle
  • SWOC has also held ConComCon, a gathering of local conrunners, from the 1990s to the 2010s. This was suspending during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and has not been resumed.
    More information about SWOC can be found on the SWOC website.

    Contact Us

    Info   info@smof‍com41.org
    Registration   registration@smof‍com41.org
    Website   webmaste@smof‍com41.org
    Program   program@smof‍com41.org
    Chair  ch‍air@smof‍com41.org

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