Sanda Everette, Application for Delegate, Green Party of the United States (2015)

Name  -  Sanda Everette
City - San Mateo
County  - San Mateo
sanda@greens.org

1) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills within of the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.

I am applying for my sixth term as a delegate on this committee. I have been a Green Party member for two decades. I have served six-2 year terms as an elected county council member and have attended more than two dozen state meetings as a delegate from my county participating in various roles at state meetings.

I attended my first national meeting in Washington, DC in 2003 as an observer. I was a nominating convention delegate at the Milwaukee presidential convention in 2004 and that December ran as an alternate to the GPCA delegation and in May 2005 ran as a delegate. I attended annual meetings in Tulsa and Tucson and then was elected as the delegation co-chair. I was re-elected to the delegation in May 2007 and reelected as co-chair at our first state meeting after attending the national meeting in Philadelphia. I attended the 2008 Presidential Convention and Annual National meeting in Chicago and at that meeting, I was elected as one of the seven co-chairs of GPUS. I attended the ANM in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2009 and in Detroit in 2010.  I attended the 2011 meeting in Alfred NY and the 2012 Nominating Convention in Baltimore as well as the ANM in Iowa City and in St Paul in 2014. (GPUS has been a great place to learn about the mid-west, a part of the country with which I had minimal experience previously....with Baltimore and Tucson being the only cities I had been to previously.)

I am a member of the GPUS International Committee, just elected as FPVA delegate, and the National Women’s Caucus, currently serving as treasurer, have served on the Finance Committee and am now on the Media Committee.

In the spring of 2011, I was encouraged to run for an at-large seat for the GPCA Coordinating Committee and shortly thereafter became the female co-co and was recently reelected to that position.  I am on the GPCA Media Committee as the liaison from the CC.

2) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills outside of the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.

In the rest of my life, I retired from teaching in 2009; I'm a permaculture designer, political/social activist since the 70's, and co-creator of the San Mateo Ecovillage. See www.greensolutions.org for more about me. I think of myself as a planetary citizen, love to travel, and am fortunate that my husband worked for United Airlines.

3) Please describe your vision for serving as GPUS Delegate including addressing the job description for GPUS Delegate.

I think my record speaks to this question.