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PSG Ballot emailed today – please vote and support our dedicated candidates for EXCO!

Check your inbox—many of you have received your PSG Ballot for the Executive Council! Be sure to read through the candidates and vote. The last day to vote is Sunday, February 5, 2023.

Jane Dolliver sent the PSG Ballot (Survey Monkey ballot) out on Saturday, January 7 (2:36 PST). If you did not receive it, please email the Elections Committee at psg_elections@pacificseabirdgroup.org so we can determine if the issue is due to current membership status (you must be an active member as of January 6, 2023) or email address (sometimes Survey Monkey emails get rejected or labeled as spam). Special thanks to Jane Dolliver for once again doing so much work to recruit candidates (100+ emails!) and create the ballot and to Marc Romano and EXCO for helping recruit candidates, as well as to all of you who provided nominations. We always want more nominations for next year and future years so keep them coming—you can suggest yourself or others in the last question on the ballot (anonymously!). We also have unelected positions with vacancies throughout PSG so we’ll get back to you with options to contribute to the vibrancy of this organization.

We have a wonderful group of people on this year’s ballot. Because you will only see the portion of the ballot relevant to your region, we want to recognize and thank everyone who stepped up to run for EXCO here:

Chair-Elect

  • Juliet Lamb

Vice-Chair for Conservation

  • Lindsay Adrean
  • Michael Schrimpf

Treasurer

  • Brie Drummond
  • Pam Michael

Secretary

  • Lara Brenner

Canada Representative

  • Tori Burt
  • Kerry Woo

Non-Pacific US States Representative

  • Sarah Guitart
  • Julia Gulka

Southern California / Latin America / Hawaii

  • Erika Dittmar
  • Jaime Ojeda

Washington / Oregon

  • Amelia DuVall

One of the reasons we like using Survey Monkey is so we can keep reminding you to vote all month long until you vote. You’ll enjoy reading the bios and it’s super easy to vote so just do it right now! Thank you for all you do for seabirds.

Thank you again to everyone who submitted nominations for this election. Just the act of nominating a colleague can be a big boost/act of kindness toward a peer, colleague, or collaborator.

Already voted? You can still submit nominations via psg_elections@pacificseabirdgroup.org.

 

Cheers,

Katie O’Reilly and Jane Dolliver
Committee Co-Coordinators
Pacific Seabird Group Elections Committee