Earlier today we had an Advocacy Committee Leadership Meeting.

It was between the cabinet -and Advocacy Committee, where we brought everyone up to date on what’s going on.

For example, we’re:

• Creating a teacher advisory council and a school chapter system. To mobilize the students.
• Negotiating with the board and Dr. Grier’s staff for having private meetings with HISD’s administration once a month. To get stuff done.
• Helping to produce TEDxHISD and having students give TED Talks. To be permanently on the internet.
• Proposing an idea of having a Student Congress Radio on KPFT. To get our voice on the airwaves.
• Planning a trip to Austin during the legislative session.

All these things are going to happen, and we’re working on it as we speak. Ericka Mellon from the Chronicle was also there – she asked to come to a December meting so we invited her to this one. Her article will be out soon!

Attendance:

• Zaakir Tameez, Speaker of the Congress, (Carnegie ’15)
• Jamie Russell, Advocacy Committee Chair (Madison ’15)
• Raquel Douglas, Governance Committee Chair (Carnegie ’15)
• Jesus Solano, Finance Committee Chair (Carnegie ’15)
• Demetron Dotson, Advocacy Committee Sergeant at Arms (Austin ’17)
• Aviance Obie, Agenda Committee Member (Westbury ’16)
• Jessica DeBoe, Outreach Committee Blog Squad, (HSPVA ’17)
• David Valerio, Chief Administrative Officer (Carnegie ’15)
• Andrea Jamie, Outreach Committee Blog Squad Email & Instagram Manager (LECJ ’16)