Dear Maria,
Thank you for your engagement and commitment to the movement and good luck in your future
endeavours.
Warm regards,
Nattes à chat
Le 3 juin 2021 à 21:39, María Sefidari
<msefidari(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :
Dear All,
There is one last bit of news I would like to share following the Board meeting update.
After ~ 8 years on the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation - a long time! - I
have notified the Board that I am stepping down as Chair and trustee, effective end of day
today.
As all of you know, the community-selected seats were due to expire last year and were
extended at the request of the Board to see through these difficult and unprecedented
times. Now, after chairing the last meeting of the fiscal year and having the call for
candidates for the upcoming elections approved, it is the least disruptive moment for me
to step down. The Foundation has asked me to consider an advisory role to support Movement
Strategy and the onboarding of new trustees and the new CEO/ED, to help support leadership
and this strategic transition. Nataliia Tymkiv, currently Vice Chair, will act as Chair
until a new one is elected by the Board ensuring continuity.
Hopefully this news will not come as too much of a surprise. I am grateful to the
community members who lent me their trust and support to become a trustee on two different
occasions, to the staff, and to the trustees for their confidence in me in the different
leadership positions I have held within the Board - first as committee chair, then two
terms as Vice Chair, and two terms as Chair.
Together we have accomplished many things during this time, but if I had to single out
only a few they would be the following: launching the Movement Strategy process, engaging
in the most ambitious governance reform in the history of the Board, and working to ensure
the stability and sustainability of the Foundation. It has been a time of change, of
discussing strategy and our future, and deciding together what the path forward should be.
Of course, the work is never finished - it will be the task of the Board to continue what
has been done and face the newer and complex challenges that will no doubt arise. I hope
that we will see many of the women of the movement and people from the Global South as
candidates in the upcoming community elections - I know there are many qualified people
ready to step into these important roles. I look forward to supporting an increasingly
capable and diverse Board.
Be safe and well everyone.
Tupananchiskama,
María
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María Sefidari Huici
Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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