Cody Vaughn

I am honored to have been elected by my peers. I joined the Association of Professional Piercers in 2009, and I have served as the Chair for the Membership Committee, and volunteered with the Outreach Committee and the Social Media sub-Committee. I also help to run the APP Tumblr page with Ryan Ouellette, and I have been working as an instructor for the Fakir Intensives in San Francisco since 2010.

My main goals in serving on the Board will be to focus on attracting more piercers to the organization, to work toward more transparent and frequent communication with the membership, and to focus on ways to market the APP to the general public—and not just piercers. I feel that the APP has never been viewed in a more positive light amongst piercers as it is right now, and with the successful push we have all seen on our social media pages—and the unique advantage of membership—we can utilize and unify our combined experiences to seize this opportunity to push the organization further than it has even been.