JB Report 2015 by Daniel Krajnak

JB Report 2015 Tying it all together

JB Report 2015 What Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Be Talking About Section 1: The Who of JB USA Section 2: What We Accomplished This Year Section 3: Chapter and Region Highlights Section 4: JB Pictograph Section 5: Our Future Leadership

Section 1: The Who of JB USA

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JB USA

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Chairs

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○East-Midwest Liaison ○Northeast Liaison ○South Liaison ○West Liaison ○West-Midwest Liaison

Elect

○○○○○Regional Representatives ○○○Members at Large ○National JB Advisor

National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT)

○○○○○Members ○Chair ○Past-Chair

National Mini Camp Committee (NMCC)

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●●National Junior Representatives (NJRs) ○Senior NJR Chairs ○Junior NJR

●●● National Youth Committee ●● (NYC)

●JB Director

STRUCTURE ●●●●● ●●●●● JB Presidents ●●●●● ●●●●● (LJRs) ● ○East-Midwest ○Northeast ○South ○West ○West-Midwest

Works With

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●JB Director

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Works With Chairs

●●National Junior Representatives (NJRs) ○Senior NJR Chairs ○Junior NJR

●●● National Youth Committee ●● (NYC) ○East-Midwest Liaison

Elect

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National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT) ○○○○○Regional Representatives

National Junior Representatives Rachel Buff Senior NJR

Daniel Krajnak Junior NJR

JB Director Chris Warner

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●JB Director

●●●●● ●●●●● JB Presidents ●●●●● ●●●●● (LJRs) ● ○East-Midwest ○Northeast ○South ○West ○West-Midwest

Works With Chairs

●●National Junior Representatives (NJRs) ○Senior NJR Chairs ○Junior NJR

●●● National Youth Committee ●● (NYC) ○East-Midwest Liaison ○Northeast Liaison ○South Liaison ○West Liaison ○West-Midwest Liaison

Elect

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National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT) ○○○○○Regional Representatives ○○○Members at Large ○National JB Advisor

○West ○West-Midwest

●JB Director

Works With Chairs

●●National Junior Representatives (NJRs) ○Senior NJR Chairs ○Junior NJR

●●● National Youth Committee ●● (NYC) ○East-Midwest Liaison ○Northeast Liaison ○South Liaison ○West Liaison ○West-Midwest Liaison

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National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT) ○○○○○Regional Representatives ○○○Members at Large ○National JB Advisor

NYC

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Gray Wilson Gianna Beasley Mary Kate Grow Rachel Buff (chair) Stephanie Ouellette Nash Allan Rahill

NJBoT ●●●●●●●●●

Julia Beasley Charlie Wolfson

Sofia Goodman Lizzie Smith

Daniel Krajnak (chair) Aliza Glatter

NJBoT ●●●●●●●●●

Sammy Spencer Nancy Golio

Dani Gurevitch Vivian Sabla

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●JB Director

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Works With Chairs

●●National Junior Representatives (NJRs) ○Senior NJR Chairs ○Junior NJR

●●● National Youth Committee ●● (NYC) ○East-Midwest Liaison ○Northeast Liaison ○South Liaison ○West Liaison ○West-Midwest Liaison

Elect

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National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT) ○○○○○Regional Representatives ○○○Members at Large ○National JB Advisor

○Northeast Liaison ○South Liaison ○West Liaison ○West-Midwest Liaison

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○○○Members at Large ○National JB Advisor

National Mini Camp Committee (NMCC) ○○○○○Members ○Chair ○Past-Chair

NMCC ●●●●●●●

Marie Claire Levy (past-chair) (not pictured) Cameron Overholt Kat Holleran

NMCC ●●●●●●●

Elizabeth Metsch Ellie Utter

Max Rogrow Laura Berstler (chair)

Section 2: What We Accomplished This Year

Documents •

8 Publications including three issues of the JB Newsletter

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Total of 46,498 words.

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The Great Gatsby: 47,094 words

JB USA !1 JB USA Dorris Allen Chapter Building 1102.1 18 October 2015 Midterm 1 For us, “we work because it’s necessary” is only answering only part of the question. The fact that without us, JB USA wouldn’t exist gives us daily motivation, but for us, it’s not comprehensive. Our world today is often concerned with the difficulty of defining a person to a finite, and oftentimes small and inconsequential identity—their job. For those of us who find ourselves getting more and more involved, though, our work in CISV is not enclosing. Instead of defining ourselves by the work we do in CISV, we see ourselves as contributing our identity, as donating our personality and perspective, to a vast network whose organizational culture and mission allow us to make a meaningful difference, and which continues to create a meaningful

JB USA

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DESCRIPTIONS Junior Branch Presidents●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● The Junior Branch Presidents lead the 21 Junior Branch chapters of JB USA. As a crucial part of the JB USA structure, JB Presidents make sure that their respective local chapters are active and thriving JBs. The JB Presidents also elect most of the JB USA leadership, including the NJRs, the NJBoT, the NJBAD, and the JB Director. The JB Presidents also choose the recipient of the annual “JBer for Life” award.! National Junior Representatives (NJRs)●● The Senior and Junior National Junior Representatives (NJRs) act as the heads of JB USA and administer the proceedings of our Junior Branch. In addition to maintaining the quality of all JB development and trainings, the NJRs also manage the budget of JB USA. The NJRs are the representatives of JB USA to the International Junior Branch, acting in the interest of JB USA in any governing procedures and communicating all necessary information to JB USA. They also manage JB USA’s communications and work with CISV USA committees. Finally, the NJRs develop the visioning for JB USA and work throughout the year to make JB USA the best it can possibly be! Junior Branch Director● The Junior Branch Director is the voice of the Junior Branch on CISV USA’s Board of Directors. As a full voting member of the Board, the JB Director helps govern the proceedings of CISV USA. The JB Director works very closely with the NJRs to ensure that the interests of JB USA are being represented on the Board of Directors. National Youth Committee (NYC)●●●●● The National Youth Committee (NYC) is one of the essential organs of JB USA. Chaired by the Senior NJR, the NYC is a 5 member committee in charge of developing and facilitating training programs for JB USA that are implemented during the Chapter Development Workshops and the National Junior Branch Meeting. The members of NYC also act as regional liaisons to the 5 regions of JB USA and work to ensure that JB USA is meeting all of the local chapters’ needs. National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT)●●●●●●●●● The National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT) is the governing board of JB USA. Chaired by the Junior NJR, the NJBoT is a 9 member board comprised of the National Junior Branch Advisor, 5 Regional Representatives, and 3 Members at Large. The NJBoT works to develop any new procedures and policies that they see are necessary to develop JB USA as a Junior Branch. National Junior Branch Advisor (NJBAd)● The National Junior Branch Advisor (NJBAd) is the adult member of the JB USA structure. In addition to offering the adult perspective on the NJBoT, the NJBAd supports the Local Junior Branch Advisors of JB USA. National Mini Camp Committee (NMCC)●●●●●●●! The National Mini Camp Committee (NMCC) is another committee that makes up the JB USA structure. Chaired by the National Mini Camp Committee Chair with help from the Past Chair, the NMCC plans JB USA’s annual National Mini Camp, which takes place every year during Memorial Day Weekend.

●●Project Managers Julia Beasley Lizzie Smith

●Local JB Training Coordinator Vivian Sabla

●●Newsletter Editors Sofia Goodman Sammy Spencer

●Communications Coordinator Charlie Wolfson

●Motion Manager Dani Gurevitch

●National JB Advisor Nancy Golio

●Fundraising Coordinator Aliza Glatter

Mission Statement: To foster the growth and development of JB USA through visioning, innovation, and legislation. Project Managers Julia Beasley and Lizzie Smith, NJBoT’s two Project Managers help JBers start and develop national and international projects. These projects engage and advance JB USA and IJB. julia.beasley@us.cisv.org lizzie.smith@us.cisv.org

Newsletter Editors Sofia Goodman and Sammy Spencer collect articles for, write for, design, and edit JB USA’s newsletter. Issues of the newsletter are released several times per year. sofia.goodman@us.cisv.org sammy.spencer@us.cisv.org

Motion Manager Dani Gurevitch, the Motion Manager for NJBoT, encourages, oversees and assists with the creation of motions for JB USA. If you want to write a motion, talk to her. dani.gurevitch@us.cisv.org

Fundraising Coordinator Aliza Glatter, the Fundraising Coordinator, is in charge of raising funds for JB USA and assisting individual chapters within JB USA in their own fundraising. aliza.glatter@us.cisv.org

jbnews@us.cisv.org

Local JB Training Coordinator Communications Coordinator National JB Advisor Vivian Sabla, NJBoT’s Local JB Training Charlie Wolfson, the Communications Nancy Golio, the National JB Advisor, Coordinator, helps JBs coordinate Local Coordinator, relays all of the work serves as an adult perspective for the JB Trainings around the country. NJBoT does to JB USA and ensures that NJBoT and assists all of the JB Advisors the NJBoT is accessible and visible. within JB USA. vivian.sabla@us.cisv.org

charlie.wolfson@us.cisv.org

nancy.golio@us.cisv.org

JB-Adult Relations Guide

Written with collaboration between: Tait Anberg, CISV USA Board of Directors Julia Beasley, National Junior Board of Trustees Rachel Buff, National Junior Representative Nancy Golio, National Junior Branch Advisor Daniel Krajnak, National Junior Representative Lizzie Smith, National Junior Board of Trustees Amanda Stegner, CISV USA Board of Directors Chris Warner, CISV USA Board of Directors

Local. JB. Training.

2015 Curriculum

Recruitment & Retention / Activity Attendance

Attitudes: Willingness to think of creative solutions to recruitment and retention issues. Skills: Ability to gain effective attendance to events and sustainable JB membership. Knowledge: Understanding of methods and best practices for recruitment and retention.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction — Page 4. Read it or skip it. Just some useful information, like the secret formulas to being a good JB president.

Our JB Chapter— Page 6. A quick self-assessment.

National and International Involvement — Page 10. How can you make sure your chapter feels like it’s a part of JB USA and IJB?

Mosaic and LMO Projects — Page 13. How can your JB reach out to your local community?

Activities, Events, and Educational Content — Page 15. The most important part of this document.

Conclusion and Goals Summary — Page 29. A takeaway you can put on your fridge or twitter or whatever you kids are doing these days.

JB GOALS AND INDICATORS ✓ Build a Junior

✓ Develop

✓ Encourage

✓ Actively develop

Branch individuals and education and our organisation community leadership action • JBers feel comfortable • JB experiences • There are • JBers apply what are enjoyable. opportunities for they learn in taking an active all JBers to CISV in their day role at any level • There are positive and acquire and to day life. of CISV. constructive develop skills. • JBers actively • JBers share contribute to ideas, tools, and dynamics • JBers are able to use a range of their best practices between JBers. different tools communities with CISV • People feel comfortable and methods. outside of CISV. members contributing outside their • JBers • Junior Branches communicate work with other ideas, opinions Junior Branch. effectively. organisations to or suggestions. • Junior Branches collaborate achieve common • People feel • There are comfortable opportunities for constructively goals. taking part in JB all JBers to take with other levels • JBers participate in a sufficient events and leadership. of CISV. number of activities at all • JBers positively • Quality is challenge and activities based levels. maintained or improved when build CISV on the annual • There is leadership widespread programmes and CISV educational changes. participation in structures. content area. Leadership is • brainstorming • Local and global approachable These will be used for statistics. issues are and visioning. and Please think about them carefully. discussed within • Diverse communicative. opinions are JB meetings or This Past Year considered and activities. By Next Year (August 2016) valued. How many active How many active is did a sense • There JBers you have ? JBers will you have ? of fairness in decision-making. How often did you How often will you have activities? have had activities? are • JB activities a source of How many activities did How many activities will successful you run? you have run? recruitment. • Junior Branches What from funds did you What funds will you benefit end the year with? have? being part of International Junior Branch.

Activities, Events, and Educational Content “Play is the answer to how anything new comes about” —Jean Piaget

Some General Goals

This Past Year

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What you need to know: http://jbusa.org/wpcontent/uploads/2015/08/Activities-Info.pdf Helpful Advice: http://jbusa.org/wp-content/ uploads/2015/08/Activities-Advice.pdf

USA NJRs’ 2014 JB Canada Report

Conclusion

Summary

I’ve been writing this report for a while now, defying the procrastinator in me by working on it little by little each day. It’s resulted in a long, tedious, and overdue task, but hopefully a more detailed and helpful tool.

Hey! How’s it going? My name’s Daniel, and along with Rachel Buff, I am a National Junior Representative for JB USA. I took a trip to Halifax, Canada in November 2014 to attend JB Canada’s National Junior Board Meeting. I learned a lot, too much to fit on one page, but if I had too, here are the things I consider most important to share: 1. Canada is cold is because JB Canada is so cool. It’s true. JB Canada does a lot of really interesting, unique things, two of which are Peace Bus and National Camp. Peace Bus is an official national program of CISV Canada started by the JB in which participants travel across Canada stopping at many of the chapters to do activities and service projects. National Camp is like our National Mini-Camp, except theirs is nine days long, and a lot of the activities are planned by the participants. 2. JB Canada works differently from JB USA In Canada there’s only one, national, executive team, the ‘Eh’ Team. This team has nine members and is chaired by the NJRs. In addition, three members, the Development Committee Chairs and Junior Risk Manager, chair national committees. These national committees are made up of representatives from each chapter. For example, each chapter has a Local Risk Manager who serves on the National Junior Risk Management Committee. 3. JB Canada has these things called Town Halls, and they’re great. A Town Hall is a forum during which anyone is allowed to bring up a topic. Some of the things we talked about at NJBM were activity planning, recruitment/retention, LGBT inclusion, and national merchandise.

Compared to JB Canada’s National Junior Board Meeting, ours is more of an informative camp. In planning our NJBM, we try to create engaging activities which will create conversations that we believe will be valuable for JB USA. Partly because their NJBM is about half the size of ours, JB Canada’s NJBM is much more direct. Instead of having an activity that explored the role of social media in our society and in CISV, only for part of which we talked about the new social media guideline, in Canada we just discussed the new guideline and JB Canada’s social media policy. made me think,really if ourcool NJBM is an informative ourUS. board meeting? JBIt’s Canada is both and really unique,minicamp, especiallywhen fromisthe There is not

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as much focus on regions and there is a ton of local representation on national committees. JB Canada has one executive committee chaired by their NJRs and a few JBlarger Canada struggles with a lot of same things weexecutive do. It hasteam. also experimented with committees chaired bythe members of the There are 11 JBa few things that we haven’t yet. It is a truly exceptional national association with a lot that we and rest of JB chapters in Canada, and about 300 JBers (the US has 21 chapters, and aboutthe 600 World can learn from. In comparing ourselves with them, we can reveal JB USA’s triumphs and short JBers). comings, and have a more informative self-reflection. How individual national associations collaborate and share ideas will, to a large degree, determine how well our organization is able to accomplish its mission.

I have three conclusions I’d like to mention:

Town halls are a great method of discussing topics , and may be beneficial to JB USA. At the Canadian NJBM, there were two town halls which began with participants adding topics they wanted to discuss to a list. Some of the topics were activity planning, recruitment/retention, LGBT inclusion, and national merchandise. The person who added the topic to the list introduces it to the group and then everyone at the meeting is able to voice their opinions and to help decide how to handle an issue, develop an idea, or offer advise from his or her own experience. I think that it would be very beneficial to include town halls as a part of our NJBM, and/or electronically throughout the year.

Table of Contents2 JB Canada’s structure of one national executive team and national committees with local representation allows for a lot of national-local collaboration. The opportunities in terms of communication Canada has highlights the problems with our own structure, most notably that there is almost no communication between national and local JBs outside of the presidents. While it’s not a good idea to change our structure now, we can learn an important lesson about what we as a JB need to work on. In Canada, JBcommunication Canada’s Structure this helps give local chapters support, encourages innovation onChapter the national level, and creates a sense of national unity. Check-in

Summary

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There mayCamp be ways&we can have National Peace Busmore local to national contact without

changing our central structure, and this contact is important for support, innovation, and unification.

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What we did at NJBM Daniel Krajnak USA NJR 2014-2016 daniel.krajnak@us.cisv.org

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NYC •

Served as liaisons to or 21 JB chapters to ensure a successful year

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Aided in the planning and execution of RMCs

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Planned and facilitated three trainings for upcoming JB leadership

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Planned and facilitated National Junior Branch Meeting

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Created Local JB Training Curriculum

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Assisted the NJRs in visioning and projects

NJBoT

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3 Issues of the JB Newsletter

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A list of emails for all JBers in JB USA

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Sister Chapters

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Three National Fundraisers •

Penny Drive has raised $255. Michigan City is leading by 22 cents!

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National JB Advisor Training

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List of potential trainers for Local JB Training

Volume 1, Issue 3

jbnews

usaË? building global friendshipË?

junior branch

Letter from the Editors Sofia Goodman and Sammy Spencer

JCs enjoy their day off at the Imagine Village in Moirans, France. This summer, approximately

NMCC â&#x20AC;˘

Planned and facilitated training our National MiniCamp â&#x20AC;˘

134 Participants from 18 chapters and including two international participants

Winter Planning •

All three committees met in New York City •

NYC planned training for the JB presidents

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NJBoT worked on action plans and discussed motions

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NMCC planned the National Mini Camp

Communication •

Continued active updates on our blog and Facebook page •

Reached over 500 likes

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Continued to use jbusa.org as a location for resources

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Facebook: USA NJRs

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Website: jbusa.org

CanExUs •

Minicamp/Workshop for JBers from Canada, the US, and Mexico. •

First had 35 participants

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Second is December 28th-January 2nd.

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Applications are available now!

International News •

Sent the most participants to AJBM in JB USA history, 4 of whom were sent with scholarships

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Delegation of 9 JBers to International Junior Branch Conference

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Sent 3 JBers to Canada’s National Camp, including one staff member

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Quinn Porter was elected to the Americas’ Junior Branch Team

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International Junior Branch Team 2014-2015 featured two of our JBers—Quinn Porter and Grace Vottero

Section 3: Chapter and Region Highlights

JB Jacksonville had a karaoke night!

JB Detroit had a Cookie Bake and baked over 1000 cookies for a homeless shelter during their busiest time of the year.

For GYSD, JB Detroit cleaned up around a school and had a discussion about how youth can make an impact on their local environment. To celebrate Peace Day, they had JBers bring a friend to an event where they designed a local mural for their town!

JB Michigan had a beach cleanup for GYSD, and a community soccer game for Peace Day.

JB DFW participated in a city-wide Global Peace Day celebration with a bunch of different organizations there that promote peace! They had people decorate paper cranes with a message of peace and then hung them in the trees of a local park.

Section 4: JB Pictograph

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Total Average

Current Active Activities / Activities JBers Month Amount 627 158 33 0.86 8.32

Total Average

Goals Active Activities / Activities JBers Month Amount 879 216 46 1.08 10.75

Funds $11,862 $1482.75

Funds $19,250 $2406.25

JB Pictograph

National Questions •

What kinds of activities work, and do they work for every chapter?

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What should our trainings focus on for a particular year? Were our trainings effective?

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What makes a strong chapter strong? How can we measure strength?

Local Questions •

What kinds of things has my chapter done in the past that have worked well?

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How have we grown as a chapter in the past and what has contributed to our development?

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What challenges do we currently face and how can we overcome them?

Section 5: Our Future Leadership

National Junior Representative Steph Ouellette

JB Director Rachel Buff

National Youth Committee Chair: Steph Ouellette Nash Allan-Rahill Maddy Allan-Rahill Kayla Mock Cameron Overholt Charlie Wolfson

National Junior Board of Trustees Chair: Daniel Krajnak National JB Advsior: Samantha Coltart Regional Representatives Julia Beasley Aliza Glatter Nikita Raheja Max Rogow Kelsey Vinzant Members at Large Sofia Goodman Luke Hussung Ellie Utter

National Mini Camp Committee Chair: Quinn Porter Past-Chair: Laura Berstler Aaron Glatter Dani Gurevich Olivia Miller Bryce Owens Addie Wilson

Congratulations to Rachel Buff, Nancy Golio and Chris Warner.

Thank you to our JBers for a great year!