Green Party of California

Application for Member, Delegation to Green Party of the United States
(job description)
received March 20th, 2007

Name  -  Sanda Everette
City - San Mateo
County  - San Mateo
Contact information - 650 574-7155 or 650 766-5815 (cell)
sanda@greensolutions.org or sanda@greens.org
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I have been a GP member for about 12 years. After voting Green in the last two presidential elections, I began getting more active. March 2006 I was elected to my third term as a Green Party county council member. (You can read my bio for that election at www.smartvoter.org/2004/03/02/ca/sm/vote/everette_s/ )

I have attended at least nine state plenaries as a delegate or alternate. At plenaries, I have participated in GROW, Green Issues, International committee, and the state Women's Caucus. I attended my first national meeting in Washington, DC as an observer.  I was a delegate to the Milwaukee national meeting and convention where I participated in the woman's caucus, attended some NC meetings and some meetings of the International committee as an observer. I supported Jo Chamberlain in her assembly race and Pat Gray for congress. I am a financial sustainer at the county, state, and national level.

Initially I became part of California's standing delegation running as an alternate because I saw it as a training position and because I did not think I had the time required to do the job well.  Then I noticed that I still attend the meetings, the conferences calls, and read all the emails - occasionally even making comments.  I realized that responsibilities would not be that different as a full delegate, and since there was a call for more women to run, I decided to go ahead and do that two years ago, and since that time attended national meetings in Tulsa and Tucson.   Less than a year later, I found myself pushed into the role as co-chair. Now my term is up and I am running for reelection.

In the rest of my life, I am a teacher, a social and political activist, environmentalist, permaculture designer, and co-creator of the San Mateo Ecovillage.  We are creating a compost tea business and promote the 10 key values on the side of our van.... I wrote an article about it for Green Focus. I love to travel and am fortunate that my husband works for United.  I think of myself as a planetary citizen. Because of this interest, I joined the GPUS International committee.  As I have been an activist since the 70's, I guess I have earned an additional diversity factor as a senior.  I look forward to retiring in 2008 so that I can be a full-time activist.