[council] Thank you and goodbye!

[Stefania Milan]

Dear Council colleagues and friends

before I am rightly expelled from this list, I wish to say a big thank 
you for these two years, where I sat on Council in an usually quiet 
version of myself.

The life of an ICANN volunteer can get more complicated than planned; 
some people manage better than others to stay afloat and I am not been 
one of them this time round. Nonetheless, although quiet, I kept 
learning (something we academics are very good at), and I will treasure 
this experience hoping in better times to give something back.

As I take a leave from the ICANNverse to recharge and refresh, I wish to 
wholeheartedly thank you all for you amazing work and for sharing so 
much of your views and values. As we learn to work together as a diverse 
community, this exchange is the precious foundation of the 
multistakeholder model. As some of you know, I am an enthusiastic 
boxer... so allow me to compliment you resorting to one of my favorite 
metaphors from the ring: you have been excellent ‘sparring partners’… 
challenging yet kind enough not to squash this messy 
councillor-in-training :-)

I wish all the best to the new/old Councillors and to the new leadership 
team… and to Rafik in particular as the “new" kid in the block and 
especially as a truly committed voice of the so-called civil society.
See you around & safe trip back, Stefania

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Stefania Milan, PhD
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Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE || data-activism.net
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