Kermit and Darien De Lu, the newly elected president of WILPF US.

WILPF US welcomes our recently elected president, Darien De Lu, who will begin her three-year term in January 2019.

Darien, a member of the Sacramento Branch, has served on the national level in many capacities, including past co-president of WILPF-US, chair of the Bylaws Committee and Nominating Committee, and member of the Personnel Committee and Congress Planning Committee (San Francisco Congress). She was instrumental in reviving the Leadership Institute at the 2017 Congress. Darien also served as International Board member and was a delegate to the 2018 WILPF International Congress in Ghana.
 
“Over the last several years, our volunteers on the national board and in other committee leadership have steered WILPF US past some difficult times and onto a course of cooperation, teamwork, fiscal responsibility, and leadership development,” she reflected. “I am honored to be elected president, to help continue this strong, feminist WILPF work when I take office in mid-January.

Many forces and influences of these times divide, separate, and individualize us and our activism; WILPF is an important counter to that! I’ll work to support, strengthen, and extend further and to diverse communities our international, interconnected, and locally based activism. We succeed when we take strategic action with others, based in love!”

In other election news, Nancy Price was elected to the Board (at-large). More to come from Nancy, who was busy writing two substantive eNews articles at the time of the announcement.