2024-2025 NASJA Board and Staff

Bob Curley

NASJA President Bob Curley, is a full-time freelance travel writer published in a wide variety of consumer and travel trade publications including AFAR, Coastal Living, Forbes, Fodor’s, USA Today, Travel Weekly, Travel Agent Central, JaxFax, and others. Bob has been writing the Snowscoops newsletter for NASJA.

Dan Egan

Dan Egan, first known as a world-renowned extreme skier, is now considered a pioneer of extreme action sports. He appeared in 12 Warren Miller Ski Films from 1985-1994. Powder Magazine named him one of the most influential skiers of our time in 2006.

He has authored four books, All Terrain Skiing Vol I & II and Courage to Persevere, and his latest book, Thirty Years in a White Haze co-authored by NSJA member Eric Wilbur, won a 2022 ISHA Ullr Award and 2023 NASJA Harold Hirsch Book Award.

He has covered three Olympics and is a Boston Globe contributor. His 603Podcast can be found on iTunes, Spotify, and Apple podcast. He is a five-time NASJA Harold Hirsch award winner for excellence in journalism and a NASJA Mitch Kaplan award winner. Egan was inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2017. Dan has planned professional development sessions and recruited new members for NASJA.

Charlie Sanders

NASJA Presdient Charlie Sanders, in addition to his credentials as a ski historian, is one of the nation’s leading international copyright attorneys. He currently chairs the Congressionally chartered National Music Council of the United States, serves as outside counsel to the Songwriters Guild of America, and advises many other entertainment community non-profits including The Native American Music Association and the Authors Guild.

Sanders’ experience as a snow-sports and environmental commentator is equally varied. He is one of the most widely travelled ski journalists in the world, and remains among the handful of persons ever to record off-piste alpine ski descents on all seven continents (including in Antarctica, the Arctic and the Himalayas). He currently serves as vice-chair of the United States Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, as a longtime board member of the International Skiing History Association, and was elected for membership in the globally renowned Explorers Club in 2018.

A frequent contributor to the pre-eminent ISHA magazine “Skiing History,” he is also author of the popular, award-winning history of the US ski troops in WWII, “The Boys of Winter” and was a key contributor to “Passion for Skiing: The History of Snow Sports at Dartmouth College” (both of which earned the prestigious ISHA ULLR Award and other industry honors). Sanders is likewise author of several, seminal articles on winter snow-sports, including global ski mountaineering history (“Skiing the Seven Continents”), ski music (“Sunshine On My Shoulders”), and ski area liabilty (“Have Attorneys Really Chilled the Ski Industry?”). Originally from Brooklyn, Sanders is a proud 10^th Mountain Division descendant and was taught to ski by Camp Hale vets in the Berkshires. He resides with his family on Pocantico Lake in Westchester, New York.

Jay Flemma

Jay Flemma Sports writer and attorney Jay Flemma joins the NASJA Board of Directors.A full-time sports writer and TV/radio broadcaster, Jay hosts the iHeartRadio show Jay Flemma Sports Report, which appears on the iHeartRadio channel as well as streaming platforms. An avid skier, golfer, and distance runner, Jay has written about snowsports from his home mountain, Whiteface in Lake Placid, N.Y., to the Andes mountains in Argentina. As a golf writer, he has covered 33 major golf championships, including 17 U.S. Opens. His legal work includes intellectual property, entertainment law, and internet law, with a concentration in banking, tax, and foreclosure law.

John Lundin

John Lundin considers himself to be “on sabbatical” from the law as he pursues his interest in history and writing, splitting his time between Seattle and Sun Valley, Idaho. He has participated in sports his whole life and is a life-long skier and a long-time sailor and rower. He has numerous books and essays published on Idaho and Washington History. He is both an International Skiing History Association award winning author, and a NASJA Hirsch Award winner.

Jeff Blumenfeld

Jeff Blumenfeld is both a ski writer and experienced public relations executive. He has been a member of NASJA starting in 1974, since the day he entered the working world. Since then, he has extensively covered the sport for publications including Elevation Outdoors, SKI, Skiing History, and Venu.

His ski industry clients have included Caber, Cevas, CW-X, Fischer, Gore-Tex, Head, Kneissl, Nava, Slalom, and Trak. On the resort side, he’s represented Breckenridge, Jackson X-C, Killington, Ski The Rockies, Ski The Summit, and the Vermont Ski Areas Association, and currently represents Bromley, Cranmore, and Jiminy Peak.
He is a board member of the International Skiing History Association (ISHA) and the 2017 recipient of NASJA’s Bob Gillen Memorial Award for Achievements in Snowsports Public Relations and Communications. He is also chairman of the Rocky Mountain chapter of The Explorers Club and in spring 2019 launched his second book: Travel With Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism (Rowman & Littlefield).You can reach Jeff Blumenfeld at jeff@blumenfeldpr.com.

Jaime Collins

Jaime Collins, Corporate Liaison

Jaime Collins, communications manager at the New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority, has been confirmed as the new Corporate Liaison to the NASJA Board. In this role, Jaime will represent the interests of NASJA’s corporate members and serve as a liaison between the group’s journalists and industry members.

Jaime began her writing career in 1987 in Taipei, Taiwan. Through the ensuing decades, she garnered diverse experience in healthcare, manufacturing, education, advertising, consulting, and community organizing in addition to owning and operating her own hospitality business in Lake Placid, N.Y.

As the communications manager at New York State’s Olympic Regional Development Authority, she writes stories about winter sports, athletes at all levels and abilities, and the myriad events and programs across the organization’s six venues. Jaime provides strategic communications and marketing expertise while always remaining passionate about creating enduring, positive impacts.

As Jaime’s first initiative on the board, she is developing the first NASJA survey for its corporate board members.

Janet White

Janet White’s roots in skiing run deep: after graduating cum laude at the University of New Hampshire, she joined The Ski Market as skiwear manager and eight years later supervised staff training for 500 employees at 30 retail locations. For the next 20 years she worked as vice president for sales, education and business development for companies selling management software to nonprofits, including schools, universities and philanthropic organizations. Janet serves on the board of directors of the New England Ski Museum and has attended a number of ISHA events.