The National Glass Association (NGA) has announced that Joey Aragon, director of operations for Aragon Construction, Inc. in Montclair, California, has joined the NGA Board of Directors. Aragon will take office effective immediately, filling a glazing contractor seat on the board, and will serve through the fall of 2027.

“I look forward to learning from diverse industry perspectives and I hope to add my voice to important topics related to protecting work for our industry, advancing and implementing technologies, and finding ways we can learn from and honor the graduating class while welcoming in and empowering the new generation of glaziers,” said Aragon upon accepting his nomination to the NGA Board of Directors.

Aragon is joining these members of the 2024-25 NGA Board of Directors: Chair, Rick Locke, Montana Sash & Door, Bozeman, Mont.; Chair-elect, Tim Kelley, TriStar Glass Inc., Catoosa, Okla.; Treasurer, Jim Stathopoulos, Ajay Glass Co., Canandaigua, N.Y.; Immediate Past Chair, Ron Crowl, FeneTech, a Cyncly Company, Aurora, Ohio; and Directors Tara Brummet, Vitrum Glass Group, Langley, BC, Canada; Silas Koonse, Koonse Glass Co. Inc., Columbia, Mo.; Courtney Little, Ace Glass, Little Rock, Ark.; Jodi Martinez, AllStar Glass Co. Inc., Spokane Valley, Wash.; Syndi Sim, Q-railing, Tustin, Calif.; Taylor Anderson, Anderson Aluminum Corp., Columbus, Ohio; Vipul Bhagat, Skyline Design, Chicago, Ill.; Mark Seeton, Vitro Architectural Glass, Pittsburgh, PA; and Nicole Harris, NGA president & CEO, ex-officio board officer.

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Founded in 1948, the National Glass Association (NGA), www.glass.org, combined with the Glass Association of North America (GANA) in 2018 to form the largest trade association serving the architectural glass and metals industry supply chain, including glazing contractors, full-service glass companies, glass fabricators, primary glass manufacturers and suppliers to the industry. It is a technical powerhouse that brings some of the best minds to the table to create technical resources and promote and advocate for glass in buildings. NGA’s education and training resources—including MyGlassClass.com, MyGlassFAB, and Glazier Apprentice Curriculum—and its official publications Glass Magazine and Window + Door, keep the industry knowledgeable and well informed. NGA also produces the industry’s largest annual trade show in the Americas, GlassBuild America, and hosts these conferences: NGA Glass Conferences, Building Envelope Contractors (BEC) Conference, Glazing Executives Forum, and GPAD (Glass Processing Automation Days). In 2024, NGA was named Best Nonprofit to Work For for the second year in a row and as one of America’s Best Workplaces.
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