The former vp of public affairs defeats Michelle Amano
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Jeffrey Moy
The JACL’s National Council on July 21 elected Jeffrey Moy during its National Convention to serve as the organization’s national president for the 2018-20 biennium, defeating Michelle Amano in the convention’s only contested race.
Moy had served as vp for public affairs; Amano had served as vp of general operations.
Asked by the Pacific Citizen about his plans as JACL’s new national president, Moy said, “As I talked about in my campaign, I think we’re in a place where we’re looking to make some potentially larger changes.
I don’t want to just be looking at day-to-day issues that we deal with, I want to look at the bigger picture and work together with the rest of the board and obviously at our membership as a whole to think about how we can continue the advocacy work that we do.”
Also elected were Kota Mizutani (National Youth/Student Council chair), Haruka Roudebush (VP, Membership and Services), Matt Farrells (VP, Planning and Development), Sarah Baker (VP, Public Affairs) and James Kirihara (VP, Secretary/Treasurer). All ran unopposed.
There were no candidates for the positions of national vp for general operations and National Youth/Student Council representative.
P.C. Staff