<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>After much reflection, unfortunately I have decided to decline the nomination for European representative and to withdraw my candidacy from the Executive Committee elections. </div><div><br></div><div>I realized that it could prove difficult to balance this role with my current professional and personal obligations, and I would rather wait until a future election when I am sure that I will have the time to be fully committed.</div><div><br></div><div>As a relative newcomer, I am so honored to have been considered, and I would like to express my deep gratitude once again to Tatiana for the nomination, to those who expressed their support for the kind words, and to Rafik and the other members of the current Executive Committee for their dedicated and inclusive leadership.</div><div><br></div><div>All best wishes,</div><div><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:12.8px">Rachel </p><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Michael Oghia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.oghia@gmail.com" target="_blank">mike.oghia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you very much for the clarification Rachel -- and my apologies Ed!<div><br></div><div>With that said, I join Ed in fully endorsing Rachel Pollack as the NCUC's European representative.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4861278163720198610m_3121965458157346847m_-1455584856100114373m_-7605464523325580975m_-9059611257033091818m_-9152744663830390144gmail-m_7733849356091467945gmail-m_-5921497492709626738gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Best,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Michael<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Rachel Pollack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel.l.pollack@gmail.com" target="_blank">rachel.l.pollack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your message. I can see it's a bit confusing with the flurry of election-related emails.<br><div><br></div><div>So to clarify, they are for different positions: I nominated Farzi for the position of Chair, and then Tatiana very kindly nominated me for the role of European representative. </div><div><br></div><div>I would like to express great thanks to Tatiana for the nomination and to those who have expressed their support. It would be an honor and pleasure to serve NCUC as a member of the Executive Committee.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Rachel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="m_-4861278163720198610m_3121965458157346847m_-1455584856100114373m_-7605464523325580975m_-9059611257033091818m_-9152744663830390144gmail-m_7733849356091467945gmail-m_-5921497492709626738HOEnZb"><div class="m_-4861278163720198610m_3121965458157346847m_-1455584856100114373m_-7605464523325580975m_-9059611257033091818m_-9152744663830390144gmail-m_7733849356091467945gmail-m_-5921497492709626738h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Michael Oghia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.oghia@gmail.com" target="_blank">mike.oghia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Ed,<br><div><br></div><div>While I definitely share your sentiment about Rachel (she's wonderful!), I don't think she is running. She had just nominated Farzaneh.<br><br>@Rachel, can you clarify?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4861278163720198610m_3121965458157346847m_-1455584856100114373m_-7605464523325580975m_-9059611257033091818m_-9152744663830390144gmail-m_7733849356091467945gmail-m_-5921497492709626738m_7349246291169339470m_-189450786135244276gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Best,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Michael<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Edward Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:egmorris1@toast.net" target="_blank">egmorris1@toast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I support Rachel, as well.<br>
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It's great to foresee an EC composed of representatives with a track record of active participation in working groups. Given our limited travel resources, bringing EC members to meetings who can do double duty - both administrative activity as an EC member and policy work as a WG member - is essential. Rachel has shown the capability and desire to do both.<br>
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> great idea.<br>
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> i second.<br>
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> +1 even.<br>
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> avri<br>
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>> On 01-Nov-16 18:02, Dr. Tatiana Tropina wrote:<br>
>> Dear all,<br>
>><br>
>> I would like to nominate Rachel Pollack Ichou for the NCUC-EC European seat.<br>
>><br>
>> Rachel is an active NCUC member, engaged in different ICANN processes<br>
>> that are important for us, such as drafting of public comments, several<br>
>> DT of the CCWG accountability WS2, and CCWP for Corporate and social<br>
>> responsibility to respect human rights. I believe that Rachel has a<br>
>> great capacity to ensure NCUC's visibility and outreach - I see her as a<br>
>> perfect (and very motivated) person to continue Farzi's line of<br>
>> strengthening of the NCUC's representation in Europe as well as<br>
>> transparency and open communications of the EC members with their<br>
>> regional membership.<br>
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>> Rachel, I hope you will accept this nomination!<br>
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>> Warm regards,<br>
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>> Tanya<br>
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