About Us

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PRESIDENT

Alethea Thomas, CRM/CIGO, IGP is the GKC ARMA President for the 2024/2025 season. She is the Enterprise Records Manager for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City. Alethea previously served on the GKC ARMA BOD as Director of Education.

Contact: aletheahthomas@gmail.com

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Vice President

Karen Pierce is a research librarian, historical archivist, and inactive records manager at Black & Veatch. She has worked in many areas of information management for over 30 years, but she is new to RIM. After committing to this career path in 2022, she was thrilled and relieved to discover GKC ARMA and the supportive professional community it provides. In her free time, Karen enjoys knitting and playing with her cats and dog. 

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Secretary

Rebecca Bakken has worked in the Legal realm for individual and corporate both, and in Records, for many years. She recently started pursing an Information Governance relationship about five years ago. She is currently in route to obtain her IGP certification and working at GEHA as a Senior Analyst for the Information Governance and Records Management Department. 

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Treasurer

Brenda Johnson is the Senior Information Governance Manager at Stinson LLP.  She has been with Stinson for over 16 years and in the Records/Information Management profession for over 25 years.  She has been an ARMA member for over 20 years and have served on GKC ARMA's BOD in several positions over the years.  Brenda still believes that this profession has a lot to teach as it is still always evolving. 

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION

Genary Porter, CRA, is the Director of Education for the 2024/2025 season. She is the Records Manager at Huhtamaki.

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Jack Ruble is Director of Communications for the 2024/2025 season. He is the Associate Director, Document Print & Mail Fulfillment | Records Steward.