Coalition Builders / Liaisons—if you’re in contact with other groups on campus and in the community there should be someone in your group who gets to know them, works with them to develop joint projects and attends their meetings. These people can also make sure that different groups are informed about and included in rallies and other events. Try to have low turnover in this position, especially for liaisons to non-student groups, as this will be very useful in building trust.
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<br>SEAC contact—Yes!  Somebody needs to receive information from SEAC (Threshold magazine, conference information, information about training sessions, campaign materials, and other items), build regional and national student environmental networks, help raise money to support the SEAC network and facilitate your group’s participation in shaping SEAC’s future. This person should be good about getting news about SEAC actions and events to the rest of the group.  They should also encourage the group’s members to join SEAC’s regional email list.
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<br>Remember that your group will have more legitimacy if your officers are from a variety of backgrounds, races, sexes, economic classes, sexual orientations, philosophies, etc. Far too often white straight men dominate the leadership of groups in general and environmental ones in particular. They tend to be leaders both in disproportion to the amount of work they do and their numbers in the general membership.
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