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What: PUSH Buffalo’s annual meeting is the moment when our community elects board members* and our organization reflects on our achievements over the last year.
When: This year’s annual meeting will be held on Saturday, December 11th from 1-3PM on the virtual platform Zoom to ensure that as many of our members can safely participate as possible.
Access problems? We’ll be working with members who might be part of the digital divide to talk them through how to participate via phone, Facebook live, and other methodologies. You can request special accommodations by emailing harper@pushbuffalo.org.
*You must be a member of PUSH Buffalo to vote in board elections.
Topic: PUSH’s Annual Meeting
Time: Dec 11, 2021 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Link: PUSH’s Annual Meeting
Meeting ID: 816 5691 0443
Attend by phone: 929.205.6099
I’ve been an active supporter of PUSH and collaboratively engaged with PUSH in promoting its programs and participating in its activities.
I believe my experience, talents, and relationship with the Community at-large would be an asset as a member of the PUSH Board in this challenging and swift transitioning moment. I know my service would be committed and exercised transparently with integrity.
My desire is to help continue the Community empowering changes that PUSH envisions, is building, and demonstratively pressing forward creating pathways to that other world that is possible, now!
I am an experienced non-profit professional with an eclectic career path reflective of her passion to create positive change. I am a member of the Buffalo Living Wage Commission, SEX Ed NOW and WNY Committee on Equity and Disproportionality in Schools and Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ). I am a WNY native who desires to use her experience, knowledge, and skills to eradicate unjust systemic barriers and build an equitable community.
I have been fortunate to know the PUSH Buffalo community through my past role as a financial consultant to the accounting department. I have been a lifelong resident of Western New York and have a recently relocated to the west side of Buffalo. I was exposed firsthand to the work of PUSH Buffalo while consulting and when asked to join the board was excited to once again be part of the efforts to progress the mission of the various organizations under the PUSH Buffalo banner. If chosen, I look forward to serving.
I love working with PUSH and have been serving on the board since 2009. I got to know Aaron Bartley when he was working with MAP, down the street from where I lived. I am a lifelong resident of WNY and started as an activist in the late 60’s protesting the Viet Nam War while I earned my BA and Teaching Certification for teaching Science in NYS. Later I fought alongside other residents to save the trees in Zoar Valley from loggers, fought to ban fracking in NYS, worked with the PUSH community to hold National Fuel Accountable, worked as director of a local MOVEON.ORG group to help end the Iraq War, and campaigned for many local candidates, including Jen Mecozzi for school board. These are among the battles the people won. There have been losses as well and many more battles to fight. The work needed calls for action from all of us who care for our community and all of humanity. I am very involved along with my son Nate with Nekanehsakt, activists working with Native people to protect the Earth and water and promoting understanding of Native issues. I am a teacher of Co-Counseling and a member of United To End Racism. I am currently serving on the Board Development Committee and I am excited to continue the vital work we do at PUSH. We are an inclusive community, working in an organized and strategic way to bring power back to everyone in our communities and to realize goals of freedom and equality for all. It’s such a great privilege to work with such an amazing community.
The ballot will be available here during and after the annual meeting.
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