The response to the call for nominees for our Community Leadership Council was overwhelming. Overall we had close to 40 nominees for the at-large and chapter positions on the Council and every person nominated brought great strengths, community connections and a desire to work hard to help us reach our goals. Several members wrote to us as they voted to share their thoughts:

"The quality of candidates for the leadership council is overwhelming. All candidates will be valuable to the Archimedes Movement regardless of the outcome of the council vote. Making a decision on which six candidates to vote for is difficult but yet easier knowing that there are so many qualified candidates. I can only thrive to create a balance of diversity between passionate laypeople and concerned professionals."
 
"Thanks for this opportunity to review a field of such passionate candidates. It was an interesting life story I was looking for, and these six appear to be the most compelling."
 
"This is hard! What great candidates to choose from."

Here are the results from the member voting for the at-large positions:

Mike Delman: works as the Public Affairs Director for the Portland Habilitation Center, a non-profit that trains and employs people who are physically or mentally disabled
David Pollack, MD: holds joint appointments in the departments of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology. He has been a community psychiatrist in Oregon for 34 years.
Lurelle Robbins: worked in Emergency Medical Services since 1975 as an EMT and a Paramedic for 27 1/2 years.
Milt Rosen: has over 50 years pharmacy experience both as a small pharmacy owner for over 18 years, and as an employee pharmacist for the remaining time
Maureen Reyes: business experience, including responsibility for leading corporate initiatives to improve results. 
Karen Stolzberg: a lawyer, specializing in disability issues.

During the past two weeks selections were made for positions on the Community Leadership Council from among chapter leadership:

Jason Gingerich, a project manager; started the Canby chapter and has served on the Interim Steering Committee.
Jill Raichel worked for the Komen Foundation, United Way, Oregon Health and Wellness legislative group; the Commission on Children and Families and started the Hillsboro chapter.
Wendy Kincade has been involved with healthcare as an employee, employer, self-employed, unemployed, administrator, etc. and started a chapter in Philomath.
Bill Andrews is passionate about electronic medical health records started a chapter in Brookings.
Joe Zaerr is a retired OSU professor, and is a volunteer mediator. He's active in the Corvallis chapter and served on our Interim Steering Committee.
Jo O'Blennis has a graduate degree in Health Adminsitration, is a certified histologist, started the Beaverton chapter.

To learn more about these CLC members, please visit our CLC web page. There you can click on a name to see a photo and statement. We will post the names of the six appointees to the Community Leadership Council by the first of next week.

The strength and depth of the Council so far is phenomenal. We will have an ambitious timeline and agenda, with a goal of having the first meeting by early August. Thank you for all you've done in launching this new phase of the Archimedes Movement.

Liz

Liz Baxter, director
The Archimedes Movement