President’s Message

by Roberta MacGillivray, CAFS, NCT

Greetings NAFA,

As I write my rst message to you as your NAFA President for 2021 - 2022, I am re ecting on our successful NAFA Annual Convention that was held in Clearwater, Florida. It was a great conference program with lots of insight for our attendees. It was well organized and well attended, with the appropriate safety protocols in place. I would like to thank our NAFA sta who executed the event seamlessly and it was so nice to see familiar and new faces together again. Networking is such an important value that our members always appreciate so thank you to everyone who attended. I’m proud of the work that our Committees, Board of Directors and Executive O cers have put into the association and there is great momentum being carried into 2022. ank you to Nathan Wittman for his leadership as our 2020 - 2021 President. It has certainly been a challenging one for the history books, and he did a great job.

Special thanks to our outgoing Executive Director, Michelle Czosek, CAE for her leadership and hard work over the last six years. I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Executive Director, Emily Bardach, CAE. I look forward to working closely with Emily over the next year.

At NAFA we have a lot to be grateful for as an association and as members. Our industry is in even greater demand than ever before as our customers and our industry further their understanding of the importance air ltration and indoor air quality to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne contaminants. Our association and our membership are healthy and are in a strong position to further our purpose of being the global resource for education, expertise, and best practices.

rough the last 18 months, our members have endured an incredible challenge in keeping their employees and customers safe. e ongoing pandemic and resulting supply chain crisis have made it incredibly di cult for our members to ful ll the needs of their customers. As we all continue to adapt to the ever-changing new normal, NAFA’s goals are to be there to support our members and support the broader air ltration community with more resources, and more guidance through best practices. Our board will be meeting at AHR Expo in Las Vegas to develop a new strategic plan that will continue to increase NAFA’s voice to educate and inform our members and our industry. I look forward to sharing this plan with our NAFA association at the 2022 Technical Seminar in Louisville, Kentucky, April 5 - 7, please put those dates in your calendar. In the meantime, if you have any ideas or suggestions, please drop me a line at president@nafahq.org.

All my best,