Next SECS Meeting This Wednesday at 6:30! 🌱

After a lively semester filled with new friendships, tireless activism, and lots and lots of working group projects, the last meeting of the semester is upon us! We will be meeting on the quad to offer a break during the lead-up to finals week. We will be meeting at Channing Murray like usual and then heading to the quad. Bring any games, frisbees, snacks, and blankets that you’re able to! This will be my last time writing the newsletter after two years, but enjoy this brief message from Lincoln Dean, the next secretary and newsletter writer of SECS!

Hello SECS, I’m excited to be your secretary this fall! We’ve got a lot of exciting projects, ongoing and new, that I’ll be letting you know about right here. To our returning members, see you again soon, and congratulations to our graduating members! - Lincoln

Join us this Wednesday, May 7th at 6:30 p.m. on the Quad for our last meeting of the semester.

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Sign Up to Maintain Red Herring Garden Over the Summer!

If you’re going to be here over the summer and are interested in the upkeep of the Red Herring garden (right out front of Channing Murray) please sign up here! We could use everyone’s help to maintain this beautiful space.

Check out the Green Observer on the SECS Website!

The Winter 2025 edition of the Green Observer is on a brand new page of the SECS website! Read it at your leisure here.

Show up on Wednesday! Go green or go HOME!

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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Volunteer Opportunities with the Champaign County Audubon Society

Available positions are secretary, webmaster, program chair, membership coordinator, newsletter editor, and member at large (4 available). If anyone is interested, wants to learn more, or has any questions, they can email [email protected] or go to https://www.champaigncountyaudubon.org/volunteer.

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.

If you’ve read this far, consider clicking here for the song of the week.

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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