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initiatives during 2024. Council also made additional candidate recommen- dations for the coming election — view all CTA's recommendations on Page 16–17 and at cta.org/election. It was a State Council meeting filled with gratitude for retiring Executive Director Joe Boyd, who is stepping down after five years at the helm. He led CTA's staff during unprecedented times, supporting the CTA Officers and Board of Directors in the fight for safe, healthy and racially just schools with an old-school organizer 's mindset and a big heart. As part of his final report to CTA State Council, Boyd shared his Top 10 list of items for union success. "Don't third party the union," Boyd said. "It's 'we' and 'us,' in good times and bad." The CTA Board of Directors hired Jeff Good to be CTA's next executive director; he starts in early March. Good previously worked as a primary contact staff, as well as executive director of United Teachers Los Ange- les. He will address CTA State Council for the first time as executive director at the next meeting. Council elected the following mem- bers to terms on the NEA Board of Directors: • District 2: Ever Flores • District 7: Lorraine Richards • District 8: Rafael Gonzalez • District 9: Grant Schuster • District 11: Yulil Alonso-Garza • District 14: Kelly Villalobos • District 15: Barbara Jackson CTA State Council will next meet April 5–7 in Los Angeles. Goldberg encouraged members to step up the fight during this important year. "We have righteous work before us! Our history tells us it is possible," he said. "Dr. King said, ' The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' My friends, we are criti- cal in the movement to bend it." CTA African American Caucus Chair Camille Butts, along with members of the Racial Equity Affairs Committee, introduced a powerful African American Community Presentation. Outgoing CTA Executive Director Joe Boyd bids farewell to State Council delegates. CTA Officers pose with the 2023-24 Ethnic Minority Early Identification & Development cohort. (Applications for the 2024-25 cohort are now open at cta.org/emeid.) 54 cta.org CTA & You C M Y CM MY CY CMY K