SECS Meeting Wednesday at 6:30

Glad to see so many of you at our Halloween Ball, amazing costumes all around!

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SECS UIUC
October 20, 2025

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!

Here’s what we’re up to this week:

  • Action: Continuing to work on passing the sustainability gen-ed requirement and creating teaching materials.

  • CFE: Preparing for the sock monkey workshop this Thursday, and continuing to write the speech.

  • Education: Planning the anthro club teach in.

  • Garden: Helping out in the pollinator garden.

  • Green Observer: Discussing the fall spread. Final drafts due tonight!

  • Media: Wrapping up buttons and continuing the scrap-booking.

  • Policy: Not meeting this week.

Community Building: Mafia

Before our meetings, from 6:00-6:30, come to the Channing Murray for some community building. We’re playing mafia, so get to the CMF early to get our game done before the meeting!

Save Your Mason Jars

Garden is planning a pickling event to learn how to pickle and do some yourself. Save your mason jars for the event! More information coming soon!

Sock Monkey Workshop

Come learn how to make some sock monkeys with CFE this thursday at the Siebel Center for Design. It's a fun way to repurpose your old socks into something lovable and to promote sustainability and circularity in all things

Dinner With Prairie Rivers Network

Fill out the form to make sure you get fed! Learn about what all our environmentally concerned groups on campus are doing.

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.

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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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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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