Although polls have yet to open for our 2011 election, we're already thinking ahead to 2012. As some of you may have noted, the circumstances of the current election present a complication for next term. There are a total of seven seats on the Board, and Board members are customarily elected to three-year terms. We have four open seats in this election; two are from terms that ran out this year, and two are from Board members retiring before their terms are up (both would have had one more year).

Dear Julia, Naomi, Betsy, Nikisha and Jenny,

Yay for all of you!

We’re so glad that we have five talented, passionate, engaged fans who want to fill the four seats on the OTW Board. Thank you for running. And thank you so much for all the hard work you’ve done for the org already, even before deciding to run. We hope that all of you will stay highly involved with the org, and we hope that whoever doesn’t wind up on the board this year will stay active and will consider running again next year.

We now have another resource available on the OTW Elections site: candidate profiles! These pages gather up all of a given candidate's responses across all chats and questions, so voters can read everything from a particular candidate in one place.

We're a week away from the OTW's 2011 election for seats on our Board of Directors, and all eligible voting members of the Organization for Transformative Works have now been sent voting account information.