First off, thanks to all of you for an engaging and successful annual conference in San Francisco. Thanks to everyone who attended, who reviewed, who submitted, who volunteered to organize a panel, and who served in some capacity to the division throughout the year. So many smiles, so many great conversations, and so much learning. It has been a great year, and a lot of that is due to engagement from membership across the division.

As I type out this final column, I am reminded that the work of the division continues year-round. Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen is set to take over leadership and has a many great initiatives planned, as well as a leadership team squarely focused on the important role history plays in the discipline and the value of our members within AEJMC. This is a team with great ideas for the growth of the discipline and the value of membership, and I think we all will benefit from their tenure.

If I have observed anything over the past year, it is that the energy and talent in the division is perhaps the strongest it has ever been. The value of the division is built through the quality of our engagement with it, and so, as I close out my term as chair, I leave you all with a simple request: that we continue to bring our best and sharpest work to the division. Whether as reviewers, as panel participants, as scholars, as audiences and readers, I ask that we continue to embody the spirit of open-minded, rigorous engagement and remember that the scholarly community we create now will bear unexpected fruit on all of our careers for years to come. My own, deeply personal thanks to you all for making this one my most rewarding years in AEJMC. See you in New Orleans.