The much awaited announcement is finally here, your Executive Board for the '23-'24 academic year will be:

President: Onyx Purnell

Vice President: Ember Anderson

Treasurer: Darlyn Dyson

Secretary: Luna Violet Rowenna

Graphic Designers: Autumn Lee & Dean Gutierrez

Social Media Manager: Key Cooper

Event Coordinator: Hannah Pedida

Congratulations to all the new officers!  We are so excited to see where you take the club, and what impact you will make at UMBC.

The DAU will have a fairly significant transition period, with both the outgoing executive board and the incoming executive board serving together until May 16th (the date of our final event!) in order to ensure a complete and thorough transition.  This is our first full officer transition, and it's happening just after the DAU's formal 1st birthday!

Election nominations are now OPEN!

The nomination form is available here: https://forms.gle/gxaGh2WiNkEBFvTL7

(UMBC email required!)

Nominations will be accepted through: April 14

We are looking to fill our Executive Board positions for the 2023-24 Academic Year!  Our e-board will direct and manage our activism efforts, continue to spearhead building a community around disability at UMBC, and will promote our club and our message through creative graphics and social media campaigns.

The nature of disability can often mean that the time, energy, motivation and creativity we have for this sort of community and work is variable.  In proactive acknowledgement of that we seek to have a larger e-board than other clubs so that no one individual is singularly responsible for any project, and we all have the freedom to tap in and out as our lives permit.

The following positions are up for election (positions in boldface must be filled):

President (1)

Vice President (1)

Treasurer (1)

Secretary (1)

Public Relations Manager (1)

Social Media Manager (2)

Graphic Designer (2)

Event Coordinator (2)

You may nominate any UMBC undergraduate student for any position listed above, and self-nominations are encouraged! You may submit multiple nominations. 

Nominated students who accept their nomination will be asked to write a short paragraph describing their interest in the role and what they would seek to accomplish next year, and those will be made available for the election.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the current President, Darcie Adams, either via Discord (Darcie (any)#0642) or via email (dadams4@umbc.edu); or to the current Secretary, Luna Violet Rowenna (Luna Violet

The time has come for our FIRST ELECTION SEASON!  Nominate yourself or someone else to be an officer of DAU for 2022-2023 here: https://forms.gle/XdP3FG32GPTR8ao3A

Full details are available at the link, but the nature of disability can often mean that the time, energy, motivation and creativity we have for this sort of community and work is variable.  In proactive acknowledgement of that we seek to have a larger eboard than other clubs so that no one individual is singularly responsible for any project, and we all have the freedom to tap in and out as our lives permit.  Our goal is to have an 11 member e-board so please nominate if you're interested!!

There are 3 specific roles that UMBC requires us to have in order to continue to be recognized, which are: President, Vice President, and Treasurer.  (It's a common joke that no one wants to be treasurer, but it's by far the lowest commitment role so I'm hoping someone will consider it!)

We are using this same survey to form 3 low-commitment committees (activism, social, and creative) to further help spread the workload, and also to make it easier to be involved in the work our club wants to do.  You can fill out the form just to sign up for a committee, you are not required to submit an officer nomination with it.

Nominations will be accepted: 4/25/22 through 5/1/22

Accepted nominees must submit their statement by: 5/5/22

Election will be held from: 5/6/22 through 5/12/22 (info is due to UMBC by 5/15!)