Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Coho US Staff changes

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Karen Gimnig wrote:

>Subscribers to CohoUS's eNews already know that we will be welcoming a new
>Executive Director next week. We’re delighted that Trish Becker will be
>bringing her knowledge, skills, and most of all her passion for Cohousing
>to the association and the movement.

Cohousing is blessed with many ways to communicate.

Actually Sharon Villines shared on Cohousing-L her post to her
community about "A new Cohousing US Executive Director" a couple
weeks ago.
http://lists.cohousing.org/pipermail/cohousing-l/msg47718.html

That post includes Trish Becker's bio (from CohoUS newsletter)
and a link to Trish's TEDx talk on cohousing from 2019
https://www.ted.com/talks/trish_becker_hafnor_cohousing_the_future_of_community_and_human_connection
which Sharon and I commend.

The quote from the TEDx talk that I consider the essence of what I need
to know about Trish:
 I want an evening where my phone sits untouched in the corner while I
 gather with my neighbors and together we show my daughter how to make
 her first protest sign.

Karen also wrote:
> [Coho-US part time] Alice Alexander - Fundraising Director

I was unaware of this role.  Great to hear Alice's talents will be used
for this necessary but to some of us unattractive task.

One last thing,

Karen wrote:
> I'll be turning my focus fully to leading the upcoming national
> conference in Madison.

Madison is relatively close to us here in Minneapolis (about 270 miles)
so I hope I can attend. I have seen nothing about plans relative to Covid.
The pandemic is not over.  Will masks and proof of vaccinations be
required if conditions are similar then which they may well be?
Are there contingency plans?  Can registration and accomodations be made
contingent on Covid?

I hope the conference can be relatively normal but I fear that may not
be the case.

Fred

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