CoCo Leadership Elections
ANNUAL ELECTIONS
The CoCo’s Executive Director and Board Members are elected by the members at large. All CoCo members are eligible to vote in the annual elections, no matter where in the world they reside. By our count, that’s around 430 people! Each member will receive a unique link by email to vote using ElectionBuddy, our anonymous voting platform. To learn more about each role, visit our Leadership page.
CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Candidates are listed in order of registration. For the 2025 election cycle, we had two open seats on the Board.
Evans Clinchy
I've been a member of the CoCo board since its inception in 2020, and I would love the opportunity to continue for another two years.
Throughout my tenure, I've focused on doing everything I can to grow tournament Scrabble. Specifically, I've worked hard on player and director outreach (sorry, everyone, for the constant texts and emails pestering you to play and/or run tournaments) as well as content creation. I'm always on my grind, writing articles and social media posts and all sorts of stuff geared toward promoting our tournament scene.
Being a board member allows me to stay in touch with other CoCo leaders about our ideas for growing the game. We have a great team in place, and we've had a lot of productive sessions bouncing ideas off of one another and brainstorming about the future of the CoCo and the future of Scrabble. I'd be honored to remain a part of that team in 2025 and '26.
Randi Goldberg
Hi, I'm Randi. Since I started playing Scrabble about a decade ago, I've really reveled in everything about it - the strategy, the studying, and most importantly, the people. The Scrabble community is full of great people, and it's really important to me that it continues to grow. I've worked in recruitment and event-running for years, and as a result have a lot of ideas for how to help the Scrabble community grow bigger and better.
CANDIDATES FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jennifer Clinchy
For the past dozen years, I've played in tournaments from coast to coast and around the world. I've directed championship events including the 2023 North American Collins Championship and the Collins divisions of the 2022 Word Cup. Since co-founding the CoCo in 2019, I've led the organization as its elected Executive Director. This past year, I've focused on building institutional capacity and internal resiliency so that the CoCo can live up to its goal of being a true coalition.
Recruiting and training new volunteers and directors has been a core part of those efforts to build up our team. We have no shortage of ideas; we’re limited only by the number of people we have available to execute them. The more help we have, the more we can start dreaming of how we will execute bigger and better tournaments. To that end, I consulted with an expert grants manager this year to formulate a strategic plan for the CoCo's future fundraising efforts.
As ever, I continue to execute the sometimes unglamorous work of the Executive Director, making sure our bills are paid on time and that we have insurance coverage to protect our directors. I stewarded the popular CoCo Newcomer Discounts program and our Access Fund to expand the game to more and more players. I supported the CoCo's ongoing partnership with DC Public Libraries and submission of our first grant application. Looking forward to the next year, I hope to put greater focus on grant funding in addition to doing what's needed to keep the CoCo thriving on a sustainable path.