{"id":5716,"date":"2026-03-19T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:39:52","slug":"spring-chapter-meeting-and-elections-april-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/19\/spring-chapter-meeting-and-elections-april-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Chapter Meeting and Elections \u2013 April, 9 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Annual Chapter Elections<br \/>\nSpring 2026<br \/>\nUFF-FIU Chapter Meeting<\/h1>\n<p>Wednesday, April 9, 2026, 2-4 pm<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SIPA1, Room 100 (MMC)<\/li>\n<li>AC1, Room 317 (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cookies and coffee will be provided.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For dues-paying members only.<\/li>\n<li>In person attendance required.<\/li>\n<li>Members will elect UFF-FIU Offices, Senators, and Florida Education Association Delegates.<\/li>\n<li>Union updates and business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/election-faq\/\">Election FAQ<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">*Absentee or proxy voting is prohibited by <a href=\"https:\/\/perc.myflorida.com\/\">PERC<\/a>*<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Candidates<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2026 Candidates for UFF-FIU Offices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President:<\/strong> Floor Nominations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vice President: <\/strong>Martha Meyer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary: <\/strong>Alfred Soto<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer: <\/strong>Floor Nominations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2026 Candidates for UFF-FIU Senator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u><br \/>\n<\/u>There are 39 candidates running for UFF-FIU Senator (34 seats) who were nominated by the published nomination deadline.\u00a0 Candidates with the least votes will become Alternate Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Abeloff<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Adelman<\/p>\n<p>Candice Ammons Blanfort<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Aylsworth<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Breslin<\/p>\n<p>Noemy D\u00edaz Burgos<\/p>\n<p>Ming Fang<\/p>\n<p>Janna Fierst<\/p>\n<p>Mark Finlayson<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Frazier<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Galaska<\/p>\n<p>Marta Gierczyk<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Giordano<\/p>\n<p>Georgii Griaznov<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hammill<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Jim\u00e9nez<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Kroll<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Levenson<\/p>\n<p>Tania Cepero L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Marr<\/p>\n<p>Emily Messina<\/p>\n<p>Martha Meyer<\/p>\n<p>Tom Moore<\/p>\n<p>Christi Navarro<\/p>\n<p>Cindy P\u00e9rez<\/p>\n<p>Terrence Peterson<\/p>\n<p>Maria Reid<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Robertson<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n<p>Fahad Saeed<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Scarbrough<\/p>\n<p>Martha Schoolman<\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Smith<\/p>\n<p>Natalia Soares Quinete<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Soto<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Villalba<\/p>\n<p>Marc Weinstein<\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Wood<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Zahedi<\/p>\n<p><strong>39 candidates total for 34 open UFF-FIU Senator seats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2026 Candidates for FEA Delegates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are 17 candidates running for FEA Delegate (17 seats) who were nominated by the published nomination deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Abeloff<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Adelman<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Aylsworth<\/p>\n<p>Mark Finlayson<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Frazier<\/p>\n<p>Tania Cepero L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n<p>Emily Messina<\/p>\n<p>Martha Meyer<\/p>\n<p>Christi Navarro<\/p>\n<p>Terrence Peterson<\/p>\n<p>Maria Reid<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Robertson<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Scarbrough<\/p>\n<p>Martha Schoolman<\/p>\n<p>Jeanette Smith<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Soto<\/p>\n<p>Marc Weinstein<\/p>\n<p><strong>17 candidates total for 17 open FEA Delegate seats<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Chapter Elections Spring 2026 UFF-FIU Chapter Meeting Wednesday, April 9, 2026, 2-4 pm SIPA1, Room 100 (MMC) AC1, Room 317 (BBC) Cookies and coffee will be provided. For dues-paying members only. In person attendance required. Members will elect UFF-FIU Offices, Senators, and Florida Education Association Delegates. Union updates and business. View the Election FAQ *Absentee or proxy voting is prohibited by PERC* Candidates 2026 Candidates for UFF-FIU Offices President: Floor Nominations Vice President: Martha\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/19\/spring-chapter-meeting-and-elections-april-9-2026\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uff-fiu.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}