Dear Maria, your insight has been super useful on the board, and I am grateful for all of your contributions.
This is not a farewell, as I'm confident you will stay in the movement in different roles, be they formal (like the one you're transitioning to) or informal, like always. Can't wait to reunite at some in-person event, once we have them back :) dj "pundit" On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 9:40 PM María Sefidari <msefid...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 -- ________________________________________________________________________________ *Please, note, that this email will expire at some point. Bookmark dariusz.jemieln...@fulbrightmail.org <dariusz.jemieln...@fulbrightmail.org> as a more permanent contact address. *
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