Committees

Shifting Power Committee

GRCA’s Shifting Power Committee (SPC), creates tools for liberatory leadership and provides resources for movement building. We are made up of board members and non-board GRCA leadership. SPC focuses on political education, facilitating identity caucuses and solidarity working groups, prioritizing conference accessibility, and centering leadership by those most impacted by intersecting structures of oppression. We strive to move power towards traditionally oppressed communities and identities and away from dominant power structures.

At the GRCA, we strive to shift leadership towards our membership, people of color - particularly black and indigenous people, trans and gender non-conforming folks, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, poor and working class people, queer folks, femmes and feminine people, fat people and people of size, and people outside the U.S. and the West.

nominations committee

The Nominations Committee is charged with reviewing candidates for the GRCA Board, preparing a slate of nominees for recommendation to the membership, and coordinating the election process for Board officers. 

Nominations Committee members serve in two-year, staggered terms, beginning and ending on July 1. The same guidelines that apply to Board nominations, Board service, and overall GRCA values are applicable to Nominations Committee membership.

The committee meets online as needed, usually 5 - 6 times a year. Committee participation requires some additional work between meetings. The committee strives for consensus in its decision-making process.

Nominations for vacancies for the Nominations Committee and Caucus Advisory Council open before the conference, and close two days before the Annual Member Meeting. Nominees are asked to fill out a brief survey. The Nominations Committee is responsible for sharing the statements from all nominees with the membership, digitally and posted at conference. The nominees are presented as individuals, and all are presented. 

GRCA members have the opportunity to review statements by committee nominees and hear them say a few words, and then elect them at the Annual Member Meeting. Voting is done by secret ballot, and the nominees who gain the largest number of votes from the membership fill the number of available spots on the committee.

The Nominations Committee is currently made up of five committee members:

Beth Dickerson, Girls Rock Philly

Carson Cates, Y’all Rock Carbondale                       

Kaci Smith, Girls Rock Rochester                           

Mary Alta, Girls Rock North Carolina

Melissa Coppola, Girls Rock Detroit

Sam Stahlmann, She Rock, She Rock

Heather Robinson, Knoxville Girls Rock Camp

Learn more about Nom Comm here