CANDIDATE FOR AIPG NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT
Candidate for AIPG National Vice President
Dawn H. Garcia, CPG-8313 Tucson, Arizona
As Vice President, I would support AIPG’s goal to recruit
and retain young members by developing student career work- shop materials and offering web-based products. I will also encourage the use of new technology to connect our members and enhance international outreach efforts.
Vision statement: I want to introduce myself and give you an idea of what I’d
like to achieve as Vice President. I know and appreciate the value of AIPG membership. I’ve been a member of AIPG for more than 25 years and have been active on both the state and national level.
I have benefited from the generosity of
AIPG members, who have provided mentoring and employ- ment opportunities. I was very fortunate as a young geologist to be able to sit with senior geologists and learn how they interacted with groups and ran meetings. Even when I didn’t have those opportunities through work, I was participating in AIPG committees with upper-level personnel. I participated in several Washington DC Fly-Ins, which were true learn- ing experiences on how government works, plus wonderful opportunities to meet elected and appointed officials. I have been to many national AIPG meetings and have made life-long friends. Because I work internationally, I regularly use my AIPG seal on reports.
The Vice President’s mandate is to be a liaison to the sec-
tions and aiding the sections is what I see as the most impor- tant objective for me if elected. AIPG, like many professional societies, faces a wide spectrum of challenges to attract and retain members and to be a resource for its members. These challenges are well-known: What is AIPG? How can we best serve our membership? How can we offer value to our mem- bers? Offering tangible assistance to the individual member and section leadership is part of the response.
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The Vice President’s mandate is to be a liai- son to the sections and aiding the sections is what I see as the most important objective for me if elected.
I would like to focus on the following tasks in 2020: 1. Prepare materials for sections to use for student
career workshops. AIPG has made strong strides on recruitment of geology students and young professionals, and assistance to these new members will continue to be a priority next year. Our new members are looking for opportunities to enhance their careers and they want to be
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mentored. In 2018, inspired by the student career workshop at the 2017 AIPG national meeting in Nashville, I decided to put together a full-day workshop sponsored by the AIPG Arizona Section. The workshop was very well-received with more than 100 attendees.
I later had the presentations
uploaded to the AIPG website. I’ve proposed another work- shop as part of the Geological Society of America conference for 2019 (approval for the workshop is pending at the time this document was prepared).
My long-term goal is an online compendium of video pre- sentations that will be available to AIPG student members. First, I will make materials available online for AIPG sec- tions to use. I’d like to see free webinars targeting students and young professionals in the future.
2. Keep our members engaged. Everyone’s time is precious, and AIPG competes with many other entities in trying to engage our members. We can make our members feel included and informed through newly available types of communication when holding face-to-face section meet- ings is difficult. Many of us live with our phones constantly in our hands.
I will encourage short videos as part of
national AIPG’s mobile communications. A short video is a great communication tool and video creation is so much easier with our smart phones. The use of internet-based tools, such as free conference calls, can be an easy way for section officers to hold remote meetings. I will make sure that section officers know about the available tools and encourage their use.
3. International opportunities. AIPG has maintained
strong ties with the European Federation of Geologists, and I’d like to see expanded outreach into Latin America. Many of our members, myself included, work in Latin America. Geologists in those countries are not licensed and don’t have a mechanism to earn an internationally-recognized certification. There is a need for workshops on both techni- cal and professional topics. I will encourage reaching out to other organizations in Latin America with two goals: of increasing AIPG membership and providing opportunities for AIPG members to offer workshops at events in Latin America. My focus in 2020 would be the Association of Mining Engineers, Metallurgists and Geologists of Mexico, which signed a cooperation agreement with AIPG in 2016. The agreement included provisions to organize joint activi- ties and to provide booth space at their respective meetings.
I appreciate this opportunity to share my vision with the
AIPG membership, and I look forward to serving as Vice President.
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