Dear SEJ Members,
I’m running for reelection to the Board of Directors to continue helping SEJ and its members during a critical and uncertain time for environmental journalism.
As we approach SEJ’s 35th anniversary, I want to help the organization grow and evolve so we can be around another 35 years and beyond.
I was elected to the board in 2021, and over the past three years I have worked to launch new initiatives and navigate some significant changes in collaboration with SEJ staff, members and volunteers. Here’s some of what I’ve done:
- Served as treasurer and finance chair, providing oversight of SEJ’s finances to ensure we operate in a fiscally responsible manner and continue to maintain healthy operating reserves.
- Chaired the board committee that conducted the search and hiring of our new executive director.
- Put diversity, equity and inclusion into practice by advancing policies to (1) increase transparency about SEJ’s demographics and (2) add questions to the application for SEJ's Awards for Reporting on the Environment that encourage newsroom diversity and transparency.
- Led SEJ’s inaugural Climate Reporting 101 training at the 2024 National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference to share our expertise and bolster partnerships with other journalism groups.
My experience with SEJ goes back to 2012 when I attended my first conference in Lubbock, Texas. Before long I got involved in organizing panels and co-leading the daylong tours that are one of the best parts of our conferences.
SEJ has given me so much over so many years and its strength comes from our members who are passionate about their beats and generous with their time and expertise. It has helped sustain me for more than a decade as an environmental reporter, and now, as an editorial writer covering climate change and the environment.
I see SEJ as an indispensable advocate for high-quality coverage of climate change and the environment and a support system for journalists in a fractured industry and jobs landscape. But we need to make it stronger and more resilient.
That means broadening our funding sources, growing our membership base and expanding partnerships with other journalism groups. We need to offer more to members and to the broader community of journalists across all beats that increasingly find themselves covering climate and environmental issues.
I will push for SEJ to make smart and strategic choices about its future without compromising our values, including editorial independence, freedom of information and protecting journalists’ ability to do their jobs. I will advance SEJ’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and true belonging in the news industry by doing more to support communities of color that have long been underrepresented and excluded.
I approach board service from a position of humility, problem solving, collaboration and openness and want SEJ to be an effective advocate and essential resource for all members.
I would be honored to earn your support for a second term.
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