SECS Meeting This Wednesday

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SECS UIUC
April 06, 2026

SECS Meeting This Wednesday 6:30-7:30!

At the Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon Street. Come learn about what SECS does and how you can get involved!

Keep track of everything SECS does on our calendar!

Here’s what we’re up to this week:

  • Action: Sign painting

  • Education: Working on Ecojustice slides

  • Garden: Cleaning the garden & planting wild leeks

  • Green Observer: Not meeting!

  • Media: Scrap-booking or sign painting with Action

  • Policy: Planning for the PowerBall

Community Hour

Before SECS meetings, from 6-6:30 in the Channing Murray Foundation, come hang out with us! We’re playing games!

Upcoming Events & Reminders

Tuesday, April 7 @ 2-3pm — Training for phone banking

Tuesday, April 7 @ 4pm — Talk from Hưng Nguyễn

Wednesday, April 8 @ 2-4pm — Landscape workday

Friday, April 10 @ 1:30pm — Abbott Power Plant Tour

Friday, April 10 @ 3-4:30pm — Flashpoint greenhouse photography event

Saturday, April 11 — Tree display at Boneyard Arts Festival

Saturday, April 11 @ 6-8:30pm — Y-Prom

Sunday, April 12 @ 12:30pm — Moms’ Weekend Native Plants
Bring cans and jars of any size to the Wednesday meeting or the event itself!

Monday, April 13 — Post-soccer Monday-Night Lion

Friday, April 17 — Semi-formal at Joes with Beta Psi Omega & trEEE
Buy your tickets ($15) here

PowerBall

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Join the Discord

Discord is our primary method for members to communicate in SECS. Stay up to date with our projects, help plan our next steps, and get to know us at the link below.

Listen to the SECS talk

Listen here to our sustainability-focused podcast, the SECS talk!

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.

The orange represents our University’s carbon footprint via investments

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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 — Madeline Loyd (she/her)
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Policy Coordinator — Lincoln Dean (he/him)
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Action Coordinator — Grayson Hodson (he/him)
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Education Coordinator — Julia Spainhour (she/her)
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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 Coordinator — Bruce Beem (he/him)
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Outreach Coordinator — Izzy Wilder (she/her)
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer — Yesenia Adrianzen (she/her)
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