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The 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting Volunteers were fantastic! Thank you to Local Arrangements Committee Chair Christopher Thompson. The support provided by the volunteers was crucial to the success of the annual meeting.
AAFS volunteers come from all over the world to support Staff during events and behind the scenes, from assembling meeting bags to assisting with registration and special functions. The Academy Office would like to sincerely thank the following individuals who volunteered their time:
| Athul Abraham | Karen Davalos | Danielle Green | Kristine Kortonick | Hope Miley | William Shirley |
| Alexander Acosta | Anna Davey | Maria Gruber | Melissa Kraidman | Ewelina Mistek | Breonna Simard |
| Rebecca Allen | Amy Deibler | Lyndsay Haak | Taryn Kraus | Vivian Mui | Hannah Simmons |
| Madison Amann | Thomas Delgado | Emily Haase | Kelsi Kuehn | Stephanie Mundine | Katelyn Smiles |
| Juliana Anderson | Jennifer Dernoncourt | Christine Haddix | Fionn Lai | Meredith Narowski | Cheyenne Smith |
| Zachary Andrews | Gregory Dickinson | Maryah Haertel | Taylor Lambrigger | Cheryl Nelson | Alexander Smith |
| Carissa Apparicio | Leah Dignan | Amir Hamoud | Victoria Lamond | Larry Nelson | Douglas Smith |
| Christopher Ardell | Tu Dinh | Elizabeth Hannigan | Nicole Lane | Alicia Nguyen | Magdalena Sowa |
| RoseMarina Armstrong | Savannah Doerschlag | Stephanie Hartley | Anthony Lanfranchi | Alexandra Noble | Ariel Spaulding |
| Garima Arora | Marisol Dominguez | Samantha Harvey | Rusan Lateef | Ashley Nutter | Jessica Sprague |
| Alexis Baide | Anna Doyle | Ashley Henderson | Ka Kiu Natalie Law | Benjamin Obrien | Claudia Sroka |
| Reenie Baidya | Brooke Driscoll | Melanie Hernandez | Elise Lehman | Gianna O’Brien | Joseph Stein |
| Edward Bentil | Jena Dryden | David Hernandez Funes | Christina Leija | Yael Ofer | Sydney Stewart |
| Jane Berger | Anielle Duncan | Krista Herrera | Naomi Levin | Oriana Ovide | Anna Stuteville |
| Fatimah Bouderdaben | ChristiAna Dunham | Shanna High | Yifan Liu | Tyrish Page | Madalynn Swaltek |
| Savannah Boyd | Francesca Dunn | Kayla Hill | En Grace Lo | Cara Paraska | Daphne Taylor |
| Kristina Bozin | Suni Edson | Julianne Holbert | Tracy-Lynn Lockwood | Trysha Parker | Katherine Taylor |
| Kristin Brashear | Miranda Ehlers | Morgan Hosbrough | Alicia Lomas-Gross | Kimberly Pavlik | Isis Thornton |
| Elizabeth Brooks | William Feeney | Jessica Hotaling | Nicole Long | Sarah Pawloski | Maura Timmons |
| Evie Brooks | Morgan Ferrell | Ashley Hudgins | Gabrielle Lopez | Amy Perez | Hannah Trevino |
| Glenna Brown | Naria Ford-Thompson | Casey Hughes | Carlos Lopez | Andrea Perkins | Samantha Upton |
| Rebecca Brunter | Kearney Foss | Ashley Ives | Julie Lozano | Morgan Peters | Rachel Valerio |
| Maryann Calleja | Samantha Franklin | Laura Jackson | Laura Lucero | Julia Pietrangelo | Courtney Vander Pyl |
| Christie Cannarozzi | Jessica Freeman | Jaeik Jang | Kathleen Maguire | Anne Pluchar | Elijah Vela |
| Daniel Ceonzo | Sadie Friend | Katherine Jaques | Erica Maney | Maya Poletto | Mario Vendrell-Dones |
| Andrew Chapman | Kaitlyn Fulp | Juan Carlo Jarquin | Erielle Manhart | Sidney Potestio | Ariel Visci |
| Emily Chen | Stephanie Gallia | Raven Johnson | Karen Manzone | Joseph Rahm | Jessica Volz |
| Harriet Chilton | Kelly Galvin | Alexis Johnson | Kylea Mathison | Siera Ramirez | Samantha Voors |
| Jennifer Chisholm | Eliza Garcia | Kristin Jones | Maniki Mathur | Lorena Ramos | Gretchen Walther |
| Cassandra Chowdhury | Renee Garcia | A. Skylar Joseph | Caige McCabe | Cory Ray | Jennifer Wang |
| Sarah Coffman | Luke Garcia | Amelia Juneau | Bryan McCullough | Madeline Robles | Ling Wang |
| Laura Collazo Perez | Michaela Garner | Kasey Kaufmann | Killian McDonald | Melissa Rogers | Sashagale Weise |
| Bridget Cone | Steven Geniuk | Amanpreet Kaur | Selena McKay-Davis | Ashely Ruddy | Caitlyn Wensel |
| Samuel Coronado | Camilla George | Yiling Ke | Hayden McKee | Denise Ruttman | Patricia WIlliams |
| Rosa Cromartie | Mirna Ghemrawi | Kaitlin Keller | Julian McKenzie | Caitlin Sachsenmeier | Kristy Winter |
| Kourtney Dalzell | Stephen Gicale | Luz Kelley | Isabella McMillion | Marisa San Antonio | Anna Wojtowicz |
| Gabriella D’Amico | Thiegan Glendinning | Nicole Kelly | Rachel McNeal | Julianne Sarancha | Alexander Wong |
| Alyssa Daniels | Vidia Gokool | Jessica Kindell | Haley Melbourn | Nina Saviozzi | Shelby Young |
| Kadir Dastan | Kyanna Gonzalez | Mieke Klein | Warren Menough | Miranda Shaine |