Two of the four independent "Grassroots Choice" candidates for Sierra Club Board, Aaron Mair and Michael Dorsey, were elected today, thanks to all of your help and hard work gathering petition signatures and campaigning. Based on a vote count carried out by Election Services Co., the independent firm that manages the Sierra Club annual board election, the Inspectors of the Election report the following results: The Inspectors report the final results of the 2022 Sierra Club Board of Directors election as follows: The five candidates elected: Allison Chin 34,717 - 13.85% Cheyenne Skye Branscum 34,187 - 13.64% Cynthia Hoyle 28,865 - 11.52% Aaron Mair 28,637 - 11.42% Dr. Michael K. Dorsey - 24,186 - 9.65% Ten members ran for the five board seats up for election. Three of the winning candidates were nominated by the nominating committee, and two of the winning candidates - Aaron Mair and Dr. Michael Dorsey - ran by petition. Aaron Mair is the only incumbent candidate who won re-election this year. Notably, this is the first majority-female board of directors in Sierra Club history, as well as the highest number of people of color serving on it. Another first is that the Sierra Club has now just elected its first tribal citizen to its board of directors, Cheyenne Skye Branscum. The new board of directors will meet for the first time on May 19-21, 2022, when they will select a president and other officers. Current board members who were not up for re-election and so will continue this year are the following. (Date listed indicates end of current term as a Director.) Ramon Cruz 2023 Ross MacFarlane 2024 Rita Harris 2023 Patrick Murphy 2023 Tony Fuller 2024 Chad Hanson 2024 Debbie Heaton, 2024 Marion Klaus, 2023 Natalie Lucas, 2023 Meghan Sahli-Wells, 2024 Three current board members, Mike O’Brien, Oliver Bernstein, and Dave Scott, are termed off the Board and so not eligible to run as a candidate this year. The remaining candidates who ran this year, but were not elected are the following: Brian Gomez (incumbent) Maya Khosla (petition candidate) Shruti Bhatnagar (nomcom candidate) Kathryn Bartholomew (petition candidate) Herve Jean-Baptiste (nomcom candidate) Valid returns via internet: 15,266 Valid returns via mail: 37,658 Total valid returns: 52,924 (Invalid ballots: 555) Total Ballots Distributed: 695,607 Valid ballots returned: 7.61% Steven Krieg Chief Inspector of Election, for the Inspectors
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