Dear Maria, Thank you for your engagement and commitment to the movement and good luck in your future endeavours.
Warm regards, Nattes à chat > Le 3 juin 2021 à 21:39, María Sefidari <msefid...@wikimedia.org> a écrit : > > Dear All, > > There is one last bit of news I would like to share following the Board > meeting update. > > After ~ 8 years on the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation - a long > time! - I have notified the Board that I am stepping down as Chair and > trustee, effective end of day today. > > As all of you know, the community-selected seats were due to expire last year > and were extended at the request of the Board to see through these difficult > and unprecedented times. Now, after chairing the last meeting of the fiscal > year and having the call for candidates for the upcoming elections approved, > it is the least disruptive moment for me to step down. The Foundation has > asked me to consider an advisory role to support Movement Strategy and the > onboarding of new trustees and the new CEO/ED, to help support leadership and > this strategic transition. Nataliia Tymkiv, currently Vice Chair, will act as > Chair until a new one is elected by the Board ensuring continuity. > > Hopefully this news will not come as too much of a surprise. I am grateful to > the community members who lent me their trust and support to become a trustee > on two different occasions, to the staff, and to the trustees for their > confidence in me in the different leadership positions I have held within the > Board - first as committee chair, then two terms as Vice Chair, and two terms > as Chair. > > Together we have accomplished many things during this time, but if I had to > single out only a few they would be the following: launching the Movement > Strategy process, engaging in the most ambitious governance reform in the > history of the Board, and working to ensure the stability and sustainability > of the Foundation. It has been a time of change, of discussing strategy and > our future, and deciding together what the path forward should be. > > Of course, the work is never finished - it will be the task of the Board to > continue what has been done and face the newer and complex challenges that > will no doubt arise. I hope that we will see many of the women of the > movement and people from the Global South as candidates in the upcoming > community elections - I know there are many qualified people ready to step > into these important roles. I look forward to supporting an increasingly > capable and diverse Board. > > Be safe and well everyone. > > Tupananchiskama, > > María > > -- > > > María Sefidari Huici > Chair of the Board > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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