First SECS Meeting This Wednesday at 6:30!

No time to dilly dally, we’re getting right back into meetings. At the Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon Street, as usual. Come learn about what SECS does, and how you can get involved.

Community Building

Before our meetings, from 6:00-6:30, come to the Channing Murray for some community building. If you’re new and want to make some friends, or a returning member who wants to meet more of SECS, come say hello.

Join the Discord

Discord is our primary method for members to communicate in SECS. We’ll be using this to share information during our meetings as well, so joining now gets you ahead. Stay up to date with our projects, help plan our next steps, and get to know us at the link below.

Some New Stuff

If you were here last year, you may notice some changes to the board:

• We have new role, Policy Coordinator, who will be leading our work with legislation and policy.

• The editor-in-chief of the Green Observer is now a board position

• We will have only one Action Coordinator

• If you missed it, after our elections last spring we have new members of the board. If you haven’t met them already, you check out our Instagram to get introduced or come say hello on Wednesday

Remnants

The Winter 2025 edition of the Green Observer, Currents, is on a brand new page of the SECS website! The next theme, Remnants, has been announced. Read Currents at your leisure or submit to Remnants here.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Visit TORIIS and take action

TORIIS.earth is an organization that makes transparent the University of Illinois Systems investments and visualizes this data through an environmental lens. Throughout TORIIS, you can explore in depth the University of Illinois Systems’ investments, understand the scope and impact of its investments in the fossil fuel industry, and take action by signing the open letter requesting fossil fuel divestment from the University of Illinois.

Listen to the SECS talk
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Contact Us!
President — Averhy Sanborn (she/her)
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Vice President — Gabi DalSanto (she/they)
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Treasurer — Lukas Phillips (he/him)
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Secretary — Lincoln Dean (he/him)
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Action Coordinator — Grayson Hodson (he/him)
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Policy Coordinator — Raphael Ranola (he/him)
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Media Officer — Natalie Reed (she/her)
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Editor-in-Chief of the Green Observer – Sophia Beem (she/her)
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Community Chair — Joya Weissman (she/her)
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Land Stewardship Officer — Bruce Beem (he/him)
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Outreach Coordinator — Izzy Wilder (she/her)
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer — Fatima Naveed (she/her)
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