Two new staff members in the Communications Group are ready to provide services to the public and the laboratory community.

Emily Ball, Community Relations Coordinator, started in January and is responsible for community relations, including public outreach and the tour program.

Barbara Hoddy joined us in March as the Public Affairs Administrator. Hoddy’s responsibilities include multimedia service requests and public inquiries, maintaining the Seminars database and reservations for the Auditorium Conference Facility and the Orange Rooms.

Ball most recently hails from Red Hat (yes, the Linux folks) in Raleigh, North Carolina where she spent four years working as marketing manager for education programs.

Ball managed the speakers bureau and user group program. As manager of global learning services she spearheaded their federal marketing campaign, working with many sectors of government. In education marketing, she established the first educational Linux pilot program in the country. Ball earned her Bachelors degree in English with a focus in American Literature at UCLA.

Hoddy spent last summer on the editorial staff for SLAC’s 40th Anniversary Photo History book. Her recent work experience includes graduate admissions at San Jose State and processing archival and pictoral collections at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. With all this history behind her, Hoddy is now learning what it takes to provide services to the public and academic community for the laboratory.

Hoddy was Archives Assistant at Foothill/DeAnza Community College District and spent some time at the Registrar’s Office at the University of San Francisco and as Library Assistant at their Gleeson Library. She earned her Bachelors degree from Arizona State University.

Please stop by and welcome them next time you’re in the Central Lab (Bldg. 40). The Public Affairs Office is in Room R132 (Ext. 2204 or e-mail pao@slac.stanford.edu).