Next SECS Meeting This Wednesday at 6:30! 🌱

Your 2025-2026 SECS board has been elected! Thank you to everyone who came out to our last meeting to vote, and here are the election results:

Averhy Sanborn for President

Gabi DalSanto for Vice President

Lukas Phillips for Treasurer

Lincoln Dean for Secretary

Grayson Hodson for Action Coordinator

Natalie Reed for Media Officer

Sophia Beem for Editor-in-Chief of the Green Observer

Joya Weissman for Community Chair

Bruce Beem for Land Stewardship Officer

Izzy Wilder for Outreach Coordinator

Yesenia Adrianzen for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer

We are back to our regularly scheduled programming this week. Here’s what our working groups are up to:

Fossil Free Addendum will be discussing next steps for the bill.

Action will be painting signs for Friday!

Media will be painting a new banner for Friday!

Education will be working on an upcoming teach-in.

Circular Fashion Expo is finishing their speech and picking a speaker.

Solidarity Gardens will be planting seeds outside.

Join us this Wednesday, April 16th at 6:30 p.m. at the Channing Murray Foundation (1209 W. Oregon Street) for our next meeting.

🚨WAIT, THERE’S MORE!🚨

Right to Protest Rally April 18th!

Meet at Alma Mater this Friday, April 18th from 11:30am-1pm to support the right to protest peacefully. Wear black and wear a mask.

Come Camping with Us!

SECS is going on our semesterly camping trip the night of April 25th into the morning of April 26th! If you’re interested, fill out this form and be sure to either bring $5 cash for Joya Weissman or Averhy Sanborn at a Wednesday meeting or Venmo $5 to @jupiter_jpeg by April 20th (this deadline will not be extended). Don’t forget to fill out the carpooling sheet in the form to put yourself in a car!

Come Bouldering with Us!

On Saturday, April 19th, we’ll be going to Urbana Boulders at 1pm. The special group discount rate is just $14 per person! Be sure to fill out this form so we have a headcount of who’s going.

Fossil Free Friday!

This Friday, from 2-3pm at the Channing Murray Foundation, come to Fossil Free Friday to advance the divestment movement.

Come to Book Club!

SECS is proud to announce our first ever book club! The next meeting is Thursday, April 10th at the Women’s Resource Center at 6:30. Stay tuned for news about what’s next on the reading list.

Show up on Wednesday! Go green or go HOME!

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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Come to Illini Lights Out!

Sign up to help turn off lights in campus buildings and save energy on April 18th here!

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
Listen here to our sustainability-focused podcast, the SECS talk! The most recent episode’s guest is Lina Avalos, a student at UIUC and an environmental justice advocate from the Southeast side of Chicago.

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Contact Us!
President — Rudy LaFave (he/him)
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Vice President — Claire Sullivan (she/her)
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Treasurer — Averhy Sanborn (she/her)
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Secretary — Julia San Miguel (she/her)
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Action Co-Coordinator — Trey McCallister (he/him)
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Action Co-Coordinator — Gabi DalSanto (she/they)
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Media Officer — Natalie Reed (she/her)
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Editor-in-Chief of the Green Observer – Michael Gergeni (he/him)
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Community Chair — Joya Weissman (she/her)
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Land Management Chair — Liam Henry (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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