Amanda Garbim - Secretary

[Amanda Garbim]

Who I am?

Hi everyone, my name is Amanda Brandão Garbim. I am currently a Sophomore International Affairs major. I was born and raised in Brazil. Since I was a child my brother taught me about cars and racing, but my true love are motorcycles. I race my motorcycles on racetracks back home and it’s my passion, as Ayrton Senna, Formula1 driver used to say, “You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.”

I knew about MM two years before attending JMU because of my brother (Caio), who is a member. He told me to be part of the club and I am very thankful that he told me this. MM helped me a lot to deal with homesickness. The best memories that I have from my freshman year are related to MM and the racetrack events.

Why am I a good choice to be a secretary?

I think would be a good secretary because of a couple of reasons. First, I do my best to be very involved in almost all events, for me the MM events are one of the best things about my experience here in the US. I know that being an officer is like having a part-time job and I'm willing to dedicate myself to it. Second, in my opinion teamwork just depends on organization, communication, and respect. I think that I would be a good secretary because I am very organized and good at planning events, I am always open for constructive criticism and advice, also I respect the differences between people. Another reason is that I am good at managing social media page and I am confident I could help with this because I am very creative. The last reason why I am a good choice for secretary is that I am committed to everything I do, and I will do my best to ensure the success of the club.

What are my goals?

My goal as secretary will be to be as helpful as possible to all members, ensuring that everyone has the information and the opportunity to get involved and participate in the events. I really want to increase the number of female members. There are not many, and I know there are women who would like to be part of the club but it is my understanding that they believe that they need to know almost everything about cars to be a member. Which is not true, I don’t even know half of what most of the members know. I want to show everyone that the club is welcome to all no matter what.

 

Thank you for reading my officer election thread, I hope you liked it.

[Eco_Boi_Stephen]

You're at most events glad you ran!

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[Senor_Taylor]

What I would like to see from the secretary is good communication across all platforms. I see no reason not to make a forum event thread for each classroom meeting, meet, and any other event. Doesn't matter if no one uses it. It's a good permanent source of record for when the event happened and what was discussed. You can still do you primary information and invitations in the group chat, but I think a good permanent record on the forum would be nice.

I also noticed a severe lack of emails going to Alumni this year. What happened there?

Stephen did a great job with social media and all of that and I think it would be great if you can take over where he left off and make sure he doesn't need to do double duty with social media and regular VP responsibilities.

That said, I think you'll do very well. Everyone likes you and you're at every event which is a huge part of being a good officer. I hope to see you still at events and driving people around!

[Amanda Garbim]

What I would like to see from the secretary is good communication across all platforms. I see no reason not to make a forum event thread for each classroom meeting, meet, and any other event. Doesn't matter if no one uses it. It's a good permanent source of record for when the event happened and what was discussed. You can still do you primary information and invitations in the group chat, but I think a good permanent record on the forum would be nice.

I also noticed a severe lack of emails going to Alumni this year. What happened there?

Stephen did a great job with social media and all of that and I think it would be great if you can take over where he left off and make sure he doesn't need to do double duty with social media and regular VP responsibilities.

That said, I think you'll do very well. Everyone likes you and you're at every event which is a huge part of being a good officer. I hope to see you still at events and driving people around!

 Thank you for your comments. If I am elected as secretary, I intend to improve the communication with Alumni and the idea of making a forum event thread for each classroom meeting, meet, and any other event sound a good idea. Also, I will certainly help any member of the office. Specially Stephen with the social media.

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Thank you so much!