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Board of Directors

The Board of Directors oversees the operations of the Foundation, including deciding the specific projects in which the Foundation will engage, how it will fund them, and how they will coordinate with other projects planned in the future.

Jim Kacian is the founder and Chairperson of The Haiku Foundation, owner of Red Moon Press, and author of 14 books, mainly of haiku. See also Jim Kacian on Wikipedia.

Thomas Borkowski is the Treasurer of The Haiku Foundation and a past treasurer of The Haiku Society of America. He is currently employed as a pilot for a major airline.

Dave Russo is the web administrator for The Haiku Foundation. He is a poet who helped to organize Haiku North America 2007 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dave is also the web administrator for Red Moon Press, Haiku North America, and the North Carolina Haiku Society.

Officers

Billie Wilson is the Secretary of The Haiku Foundation. She first tried writing haiku in the 1960s; but credits discovery of the worldwide haiku community in 1997, and encouragement from Robert Spiess, with inspiring a deeper appreciation of haiku and the desire to keep learning. Some of her awards include the Harold G. Henderson Memorial Award, the Gerald Brady Memorial Award, and The Heron’s Nest Readers’ Choice Poem of the Year.