Co Chair - Emily Smet

I am running for Sacramento DSA Co-chair because I believe our organization needs dedicated and experienced leadership. Since joining DSA in 2021 I have represented Sacramento at the DSA national convention, served as an organizer for two terms on the steering committee, and co-chaired our TRBA committee during it's first year. If elected, I will make sure that our chapter is organized to meet the moment that is the second trump administration and uses everything in our power to resist fascism on every front.

Co-Chair Caß Fritz

My name is Caß (pronounced Cass) Fritz and my pronouns are they and she. My name was previously Case. I’ve been co-chair nearly one term after being elected in January and I was previously an Organizer on the Steering Committee for almost a year. Together we need to fight for the city that serves our needs as the working class. We do this by addressing its inadequacies in a material way. Directly providing our community’s needs. We do this by aligning our priorities with seizing control of the city to guarantee healthcare, high quality housing, good paying union jobs, clean air and streets where there are minimal cars to reduce noise pollution and traffic fatalities, prioritizing instead public transit and biking. We are central to the effort of ending the genocide and ending the wars around the world where where Sacramento and the State of California is complicit and supportive of such atrocities. Our committees have been engaged in this work and need to build on past successes and work even harder to bring membership out to engage in these struggles. And I will continue to support, engage, and work to bolster our committees in their missions. I appreciate the work we have done together. It will take an increasing number of people joining together, in community, to exercise power in pursuit of liberation. Reach out to me if you have any questions or things you'd like to see in DSA at (530) 553-1839. Solidarity Forever

Treasurer - Jennifer Larr

I'm hoping to continue good stewardship of chapter resources and manage the transition of governance over the Marxist School.

Secretary - James J. Jackson, Jr.

I have served on the steering committee for 4 out of my now 7 years in SacDSA as both an organizer and the chapter co-chair. I carry institutional knowledge and understand most of the organizing tools our chapter uses (Action Network, Spoke, etc) that I would like to pass on to the next wave of DSA leadership while helping to fix some of our chapter's infrastructural issues. As Secretary, I hope to organize our chapter's internal records better, increase cross-committee communication, and maintain a healthy, forward-facing presence to both engage current members and attract new members. Also, as a long-time member, I hope to utilize my chapter connections to build larger coalitions and coordinate more with the national DSA.

Comms Director - PJ Andrews

I would like to accomplish a more cohesive media presentation of DSA to the public. Including comprehensive details of each committee which ensures the public has a clear understanding of committee goals, accomplishments, and accessibility via multiple nodes of entry. Additionally, I’d like to ensure we have more propaganda that is readily available for all public appearances, including zines and stickers and the like so that we can show our usefulness and existence to the broader community. And last, I’d like to ensure we are promoting other orgs. We don’t do this alone, we can’t do it alone, and thus we need to work across orgs, even if our tactics may vary, so we can have the largest and most diverse network of allies and accomplices to move forward under this new administration.

Comms Director - Tyler Pacheco-Tozzi

I am running as Comms Director to institute procedures to improve communication with the Steering Committee and other committees as well as improving the access to the DSA chapter from the outside. I have previous experience in these processes and procedures as the elected Co-chair of the Northern Nevada DSA chapter.

Comms Director - Andee Sunderland

"Graphic design is my passion" as they say, but really, the success of DSA and the socialist project broadly is my passion. Pre-2016 I was a part of the group that first championed a consistent graphic design style for DSA on the national level, updating it just in time to see an explosion in membership, accompanied by a huge burst of creative energy that forced us to accept a wonderful variety of styles built from a basic theme. I have extensive experience in political outreach and organizing, including training in messaging and strategy, accrued over more than a decade, both inside and outside of DSA. I would like to apply that experience to organizing the Sac DSA Comms Committee into something that's "easy, fun, and popular," but also an absolute beast with which we can send our class enemies running.

Organizer - Twixt Toussaint

As current co-chair of the Labor Committee, I would like to run for an Organizer role for the Steering Committee. As an Organizer, I hope that my skills and background in administrative and management science will be helpful in our chapter’s onboarding of new members and handling of backend information.

Organizer - Sara Connor

No Statement. Sara is one of SacDSA's incumbent organizers.

Organizer - William Wyatt

Hello. My name's William Wyatt. I moved to Sacramento in 2020--I don't regret that but it was truly awful timing--to get my degree in Philosophy from Sac State. I work as a classroom instructor and case manager for developmentally disabled adults, and I've been an Organizer with the Steering Committee for the last. I suspect I'm running for reelection to the Organizer Role for the same reason that so many of us have sought ways to get involved here at the end of 2024. We can feel and see life in this city--in this country--becoming less free, less equal, less safe. Global alienation, legal corruption in electoral politics, ongoing colonization and genocide, anthropocentric climate change, the weakening of labor power for seemingly union except for police unions, the growing unattainability of safe housing, and other seemingly impossible problems of late capitalism confront us today. And it isn't going to get any better without a mass movement of people to force systemic change. DSA is among the groups building that mass movement. As the folks who want that change, we have the numbers, and we have a good argument; the rest is getting organized. I have focused on hands-on actions in the last year, and I think, for the Organizer role specifically, that emphasis was a mistake. If the Chapter elects me to that position again, I will focus on the infrastructure and practices of our chapter, to make it easier for people to get involved and stay involved. I'll work to make the process for integrating into our Chapter as a new member more streamlined and accessible, through the kinds of one-to-one interactions between new and senior members that really bring people into the project. I'll work to create an easily accessible archive of Resolution adopted by the Chapter, as well as adding material to the website about the philosophy, strategy, best practices, and other conceptual tools that help our members frame and conduct on-the-ground political actions to bring about democratic socialism. I'll work to improve the cohesion between Sac DSA Committees and build our capacity to collaborate with other grass-roots organizations in the Sacramento area, creating more potential for direct action and for people to expand their communities. I feel unequal to the task of building a mass movement. But that isn't a job that one person has to do; it's the job that we all do together. The promises I just listed aren't my ideas, but taken from conversations I've had with others within and outside the Steering Committee, and I have the experience now to know they're doable--but only with help. I hope I can count on you, the Sacramento DSA, for that help, and I hope I can count on your vote.

Organizer - Josh Rohrer

I have appreciated seeing the work that has been done by organizers in the chapter. I know that people are working hard and I would like to pitch in. I anticipate being able to engage new members as well as existing members in the work that we do to ensure that we have the highest possibility of success in moving towards a better future. My part will likely be a small part, but a necessary part nonetheless as the more hands we have doing this work, the lighter load any single pair of hands has to take on. I hope I can earn your vote and that you will join me.