Welcome to the SERCAL Board Election Page
SERCAL board and officer terms begin January 1 of each year. The current board vets and nominates a slate of candidates for open positions, and in Dec/Jan, we ask our members to vote for the confirmation of these candidates. All candidates commit to serving a 3-year term.
ALL MEMBERS VOTE TO ELECT OFFICERS — Geoff Smick for Treasurer — AS WELL AS AT-LARGE REPRESENTATIVES (Nina Omomo and Mando Valencia, both moving up from affiliates to voting members of the Board).
THERE ARE THREE SERCAL REGIONS and you will be asked to vote for regional candidates in the region you predominantly work/live in. For 2025, there is one renewing representative in the North Coast & High Desert (Geoff Smick) and two new representatives in the Central Coast & Valley (Joanna Tang and Chelsea Palisoc), and .
Region 1 | North Coast and High Deserts is comprised of Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, and Trinity counties
Region 2 | Central Coast and Valley is comprised of Alpine, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Kern, Kings, Lake, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Yolo, Sacramento, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Sierra, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Tuolumne, and Yuba counties
Region 3 | South Coast and Eastern Desert Lands is comprised of Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties
click here to meet this year’s newest candidates for 2025–2027:
New representative: Chelsea Palisoc Region 2 Representative, 3-year term
New representative: Joanna Tang Region 2 Representative, 3-year term
New representative: Mando Valencia At Large Representative, 3-year term
New representative: Nina Omomo At Large Representative, 3-year term
These are the Affiliate Members of our Leadership Team, who have a renewable one-year term:
Allegra Bukojemsky, Cassie Pinnell, Grace Dominic, Jake Marcon, Jeannine Ross, Mauricio Gomez, Onolunose Oko-Ose, Sterling Meus, Taraneh Emam, Thor Anderson, and Yamina Pressler.