I Say Good­bye (Again). You Say Hello.

In the June 2011 issue of Voice I said good­bye, antic­i­pat­ing that it would be the last issue I would be editing.

Things were not so straight­for­ward: I found myself con­tin­u­ing on for a few months more than I had anticipated.

But now it is truly time for my last good­bye. ETFO has hired a new edi­tor, and it is my good for­tune to be able to intro­duce her.

Izida Zorde has been an edi­tor, com­mu­nity orga­nizer, and ana­lyst. She holds an MA from OISE in Soci­ol­ogy and Equity Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion. For the past seven years, she has been the edi­tor of Fuse Mag­a­zine, an internationally-distributed pub­li­ca­tion on cul­ture and pol­i­tics. Before that she served as an edi­tor with the Rus­sia Jour­nal in Moscow. She has also writ­ten for This Mag­a­zine, Now Mag­a­zine, and Wal­rus.

Izida has a strong inter­est in mobi­liz­ing com­mu­ni­ties and brings exper­tise in engag­ing read­ers by cre­at­ing pro­gram­ming, employ­ing inter­net and mobile tech­nolo­gies, and social net­work­ing and social media strate­gies. She is very excited to be join­ing the ETFO team and looks for­ward to devel­op­ing Voice into a truly twenty-first cen­tury publication.

I have appre­ci­ated the sup­port of mem­bers and staff dur­ing my time at ETFO, in par­tic­u­lar my col­leagues in com­mu­ni­ca­tions and gov­ern­ment rela­tions and our admin­is­tra­tive assis­tants. ETFO is truly an orga­ni­za­tion to be proud of.

I wish you all the best for the upcom­ing hol­i­days and for all your future endeavours.

Happy Hol­i­days from all of us at ETFO!