Green National Committee Elects Steering Committee Co-Chairs, New Treasurer

The Green National Committee has reelected two members of the Green Party of the United States’ Steering Committee to new terms while adding longtime New York Green Ann Link as its newest co-chair. Delegates also selected Cassiday Moriarity as the party’s new national treasurer.

Voting in both elections formally closed July 25, one day before the end of the Green Party’s Annual National Meeting in Chicago. The party met from July 23 through July 26 at the University of Illinois Chicago for what was its first in-person national meeting since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

While party members met in Chicago, 94 delegates representing 36 accredited state parties and caucuses participated in the co-chair election. Ninety-three delegates cast ranked choice ballots, while the sole delegate representating the Green Party of Mississippi abstained.

Co-chair candidates were nominated by national delegates in the preceding weeks, with voting conducted by secret ranked-choice ballot over a one-week period. Although the party later published the anonymized ballot rankings and a roster identifying the delegate or delegation representing each affiliate, it did not release a candidate-by-candidate tally, instead announcing only the three winners.

Link was elected alongside incumbent co-chairs Cassandra Lems of New York and Kalia Fitzgerald of North Carolina. She succeeds Charles Ostdiek of Nebraska, who unsuccessfully sought another term, making his position the only one of the three to change hands. Several other candidates also appeared on the ballot, though two withdrew before voting closed.

Fitzgerald had served only briefly before the election, having joined the Steering Committee through a special vote in May to complete an unfinished term. Her victory gives her a full two-year term, while Lems begins her second consecutive term after first being elected in 2024. Link has previously held several other national party roles, including leadership positions with the National Women’s Caucus and Media Committee.

The Steering Committee oversees the party’s day-to-day administration alongside its staff. It consists of seven co-chairs serving staggered two-year terms, as well as the national secretary and treasurer.

Delegates also elected Cassiday Moriarity of the Young Ecosocialist Caucus as the Green Party’s new national treasurer. The race was similarly conducted by secret ballot and included three other candidates, along with the option to vote for “No Other Candidate.” Eighty-eight delegates submitted ballots in the election, while six abstained.

Moriarity, who serves on the party’s Finance Committee and as treasurer of the Young Ecosocialist Caucus, succeeds Mark Elbourno of North Carolina. Elbourno was elected through a special election last August to complete a vacant term. Moriarity will serve through 2028.