Steering Committee Members

• Chair (Acting): (Ryan Novosielski) Responsible for the overall activities of the committee. Responsible for planning and overseeing committee meetings. Responsible for coordinating the efforts of the committee members.
• Secretary: (-VACANT-) Responsible for keeping minutes during committee meetings and emailing them to the Web Coordinator for posting to the website. Responsible for archive materials (i.e. posters, flyers, photos, etc.).
• Treasurer: (Greg Axel-Lute) Responsible for the budget of the steering committee and its activities. Requires communication with RE Program Consultant, overseeing fundraising and submitting requests for funding or reimbursement.
• Social Justice Coordinator: (-VACANT-) Responsible for organizing social justice events for young adults throughout the district.
• Chaplain: (Jude Geiger) Responsible for advising committee on activities and events. Responsible for serving as or recruiting a Chaplain for district events.
• Outreach Cluster Coordinators: Four individuals responsible for reaching out and supporting young adult groups in a designated area of the MNY district. Outreach involves visiting congregations in one's cluster when needs arrive such as help with building a group, worship ideas, etc. One of the four is designated as a leader and responsible for communicating and organizing the efforts of the other coordinators. Clusters include:
  Manhattan (Five Boroughs): -VACANT- Leader
  New Jersey/Pennsylvania: David Menendez
  West New York/Connecticut: -VACANT-
  Long Island: Royal Forest
  
• Web Coordinator (Acting): (Ryan Novosielski) Responsible for maintaining district young adult website, http://uumetrony.org/ya. Responsible for maintaining committee list serve, http://lists.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/mnyd-ya-sc.
• Young Adult At-Large: (-VACANT-)

Advisory Positions

• District Executive: (Andrea Lerner) Serves as staff to the committee (i.e. as a resource, an advocate for funding and liaison for concerns to/from the district Board.
• District Consultant: (Claire Sexton) Unitarian Universalist Association Young Adult & Campus Ministries Consultant for the Metro NY District. Provides information and resources to Young Adult organizations and congregations in the district. Responsible for maintaining committee list serve, http://lists.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/mnyd-ya-sc.