{"id":2928,"date":"2023-08-02T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:44:51","slug":"anderson-nabj-needs-to-work-for-more-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/anderson-nabj-needs-to-work-for-more-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson: NABJ needs to work for more people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Lentheus Chaney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NABJ Monitor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Tre&#039;Vell Anderson, NABJ Prez Candidate by NABJ Monitor\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1580196078&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elections are under way to decide who will lead NABJ for the next two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential candidate Tre\u2019vell Anderson said they are running to better serve more NABJ members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re freelancers, they&#8217;re independent journalists, they\u2019re queer people, they&#8217;re trans people, they are younger people,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cI really felt like who better than me to try to bring some of that change to the organization [that] I&#8217;ve seen up close.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson, the first trans person to run for the seat, joined as a NABJ member nine years ago and is now a lifetime member. They have served as the Region IV Director (West Coast) for three years and chaired the LGBTQ+ Task Force since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson wants to increase NABJ resources to make them more available to freelance journalists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought to myself, \u2018What would it look like if I was president, right, to be able to prioritize those types of folks in our membership while still maintaining all of the work that we do for everyone else who we work so well for as an organization,\u2019\u201d Anderson said. \u201cEspecially now with so many layoffs happening, more and more members are going to be forced to be independent journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1580250998&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/pre>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"NABJ Monitor\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nabj-monitor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NABJ Monitor<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Tre'Vell Podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nabj-monitor\/trevell-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tre&#8217;Vell Podcast<\/a><\/div>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><\/code><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Lentheus Chaney NABJ Monitor Elections are under way to decide who will lead NABJ for the next two years. 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