Leadership Team

Renée B. Joe

Named as NSBA’s first Chief Marketing & Communications Officer in August 2022, Renée Joe guides teams focused on strengthening organizational brand voice, enhancing experience, and generating revenue. Joe joined NSBA in 2017 to transform the association’s strategic marketing and creative teams, later seeing her role expanded to oversee the Public Advocacy and Communications Departments. In 2021, her role was augmented again to also oversee business development, meetings, and leadership teams as interim Transformation Officer. Since 2020, she has also served as publisher of NSBA’s award-winning American School Board Journal (ASBJ).

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Francisco Negrón

Francisco M. Negrón, Jr. is the Chief Legal Officer of NSBA. A proud product of our public schools, Negrón is a leading national advocate for public schools, directing NSBA’s nationally recognized Legal Advocacy Program, which files more amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and in federal and state appellate courts across the country each year than all national education associations combined. Negrón also leads the 3,200-member Council of School Attorneys, the national network of lawyers representing K-12 public schools.

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