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October 21, 2005

Steering Committee Candidate Profiles

Progressive Dane is electing a new steering committee at our upcoming General Membership Meeting. Below are the profiles for candidates who have been nominated and accepted their nominations. It's not to late to run for Steering Committee. Just show up at the Meeting on October 26th at the downtown public library and you can be nominated from the floor and elected.

Here are the candidates:

Amy Westra
I've been a member of PD since January of 2005. I got my start while running for a short time for city council in district 3. After that I was the Volunteer Coordinator for the Nitzel Campaign. I am currently an active member of the elections and policy committees. I am also heading up the county land use group.

Shelley M. Fite
I am happy to accept the nomination for steering committee, with the caveat that I am moving to Milwaukee next August. I will maintain my membership, but can't complete my term. I was the PD staffer from Aug. 2002 to Aug. 2003. I was on the SC from Oct. 2003 until June of 2005. I am committed to PD, to the success of the SC, and--as a former staffer--am particularly interested in helping Laura continue to get acquainted with the job.

Mary Anglim
I'm a long-time PD member, treasurer, steering committee member, and
(briefly) co-chair. PD has more centers of energy and activity than ever before. That's exciting, but if we are to expand our membership and maintain transparent, member-driven decision-making, we need coordination more than ever, too. Ensuring PD's communication and coordination is the Steering Committee's job, and I think I can help with that.

Julie Spears
I'm a long-time progressive activist who found my new political home in PD when I moved to Madison last August. I volunteered for Lori Nitzel's campaign, am an active member of the Policy Committee and regularly attend PD's city caucus. I'm a housing resource specialist at the Tenant Resource Center.

Brenda Konkel
The good, the bad and the ugly. You know me. Member of the steering committee and co-chair of the party off and on for the past 6 or 7 years. Endorsed by the party three times. Looking forward to continuing to work with the membership to keep this City great.

Yogesh Chawla
I have been a SC member for the last year. During my first year, I have helped to completely rewrite the PD web site, started an online donation/membership program, start a PD 'blog', contributed many newsletter articles, and was one of the main organizers of the PD counter inaugural celebration "Keep Hope Alive Globally, Act Locally". I also served as a PD spokesperson making the following appearances: live TV interviews on News 3 and "For The Record", radio interviews on 92.1 the Mic, and newspaper interviews with the Badger Herald and Core Weekly.

I look forward to another term on the Steering Committee and focusing on membership and further developing PD's internal infrastructure.

Satya Rhodes-Conway
I joined PD while managing Lori Nitzel's campaign for City Council. I’ve since become involved in the Policy and Elections Committees and the Environmental Task Force. Professionally, I'm a progressive policy wonk with a science background. You can easily spot me in a meeting - I’m the one knitting.

Vicky Selkowe
I'm a poverty lawyer and community activist who also co-chairs PD's Economic Issues Task Force and am a leader of the Healthy Families, Healthy City campaign to get all workers paid sick leave. I've been on the SC since last year.

Posted by prodane at October 21, 2005 06:35 PM