Sanda Everette, Application for Coordinating Committee

Name  -  Sanda Everette
City - San Mateo
County  - San Mateo
Contact information - 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 reelection to a two year position for the GPCA Coordinating Committee. I have been a Green Party member for about 16 years. I have served five-2 year terms as an elected county council member in San Mateo and have attended about two dozen state meetings as a delegate from my county and have served on the state credential committee twice and participated in delegate election committees four times.  I have been on the Coordinating Committee for the past two years and was elected as the female co-coordinator shortly after my election.

I have also been very active at the GPUS level, and have been on the GPCA delegation for 9 years and 7 years as its co-chair.  I have attended national meetings and presidential conventions every year since 2003.  I am active on several GPUS committees.  There are some inaccurate perceptions about GPCA on the national level and I work hard and painfully to try to make them more accurate.  I also feel a need to see our state party grow to be the giant that it is sometimes perceived as being at the national level, but also to be the party we want to see it become, a model of the imperative of an alternative political party.  I also believe it is important for there to be more of a bridge between GPUS and GPCA and can function in that role.

Politically, some of my particular passions that lead me to want to get Greens in office are single payer health care, electoral reform (including proportional representation, ranked choice voting, and publicly financed fair elections--get the corporate money out of the government), ending war and imperialism that passes as war,  fair taxation (tax the wealthy and corporations), climate change issues (I attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun), and almost any environmental issues you could name.

I also have become quite involved with on-line networking. I became the CC liaison to the GPCA Media Committee and actively participate with the committee. I helped create our current web presence and work to keep it up-to-date, I support our greater participation in social networking sites (I am one of three people who tweet on behalf of GPCA), and would like to see a GPCA Livestream show.  I have helped with Livestream video and production  while working on the GPUS Media Committee.

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, 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 works for United Airlines.  He will soon retire and we will really take advantage of those flight benefits.