Dear Bruna,

> 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!

Hear hear!

> Last but not least, I wish @Johan Helsingius <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 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 (:

Thank you - and looking forward to working with you in your new, very
important role as Councillor.

	Julf