Thank you so much, NCSG!

[Wisdom Donkor]

Hello Bruna,
Throughout your tenure, you were such an awesome and helpful person. I have
learnt a lot from you. I hope your upcoming episode goes well and is
successful. God bless you.

*Wisdom Donkor* (CASP+,  CISM, CEH Certified,)
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:23 AM Bruna Martins dos Santos <
bruna.mrtns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Stopping by just to thank you all for the support and help in my role as
> NCSG chair in the past two years. We surely did not face the best of times
> during the first pandemic years but I am personally thankful for all of you
> who managed to remain engaged or who at least tried.
>
> I hope our community continues to flourish and bring in new leadership
> from newcomers groups just like it happened with a myself and a lot of my
> current colleagues in the leadership positions. Another of my personal
> wishes is for us to work more into empowering women and gender
> nonconforming people both for leadership positions and having a more active
> voice within NCSG, and the only way we can do it is by being more welcoming
> and understanding of our differences and backgrounds. No Racism,
> discrimination or rudeness to each other should be justifiable on cultural
> backgrounds and - as one of the spaces for academia and civil society
> within ICANN - our community's main goal is to become more and more a safe
> space!
>
> And I am also personally thankful for all that took some time to mentor
> me, and help me through the newcomer doubts and questions. With the chance
> that I will forget names, Id like to thank everyone who was by my side
> since I joined the NCUC EC until today, found time to help me understand my
> role within this community and as chair. Therefore, my special thank you
> goes to all the Tatianas, Avris, Farzanehs, Miltons, Rafiks, Renatas,
> Louises, Olgas and many more of you.
>
> Last but not least, I wish @Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com> all the luck
> as our incoming chair and hope to continue working together with you.
> Hopefully things will only get better from now onwards and NCSG will
> achieve even higher places (:
>
> Thanks again, everyone!
>
> --
>
> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
>
> German Chancellor Fellow 21' (Bundeskanzler-Stipendiatin) | Alexander von
> Humboldt Foundation <https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/>
>
> Visiting Researcher (Gastwissenschaftlerin) | Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
> für Sozialforschung (WZB) <https://wzb.eu/en>
>
> Member | Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>
> Chair | Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group at ICANN
> <https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/stakeholders-constituencies/ncsg>
> Co-Coordinator | Internet Governance Caucus  <https://igcaucus.org/>
>
> Twitter: @boomartins <https://twitter.com/boomartins> // Skype:
> bruna.martinsantos
> *bruna.martinsdossantos at wzb.eu <bruna.martinsdossantos at wzb.eu>* and
> bruna.mrtns at gmail.com
>
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