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 # Nominees
 
+## Emma Anholt
 
+__Current Affiliation:__ Google
+
+__Personal Statement:__
+
+Emma has served multiple terms on the board, and is happy to continue in her
+role as treasurer.
+
+__Statement of Contribution:__
+
+I am a Google employee working on the Mesa graphics stack for ChromeOS, and
+have in the past worked for Broadcom on the Raspberry Pi (vc4, v3d) graphics
+drivers, Intel on their graphics driver and made major contributions (EXA,
+glamor) to the X Server.
+
+I have served as treasurer on the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors.
+
+## Shashank Sharma
+
+__Current Affiliation:__ AMD
+
+__Personal Statement:__
+
+I believe that Xorg serves as a central community for many Linux opensource
+graphics development projects, and one of the bigger challenges which any such
+big community faces is collaborative decision making. I would like to contribute
+towards easier collaboration and communication (I know many of us are already
+working on it, and I would be happy to help them).
+
+__Statement of Contribution:__
+
+* Shashank is an opensource enthusiast, he understands and promotes the
+  Linux graphics ecosystem.
+* He has total 15+ years of experience in developing embedded Linux
+  software, out of which he has been developing display and graphics
+  software for around 11+ years.
+* Has worked with many key players around the industry, has experience with
+  both Intel and ARM subsystem of graphics. Has previously worked with
+  Samsung, Nvidia and Intel for their respective Linux graphics teams. He is
+  currently working for AMD's Linux graphics org now, as a technical lead
+  for AMDGPU Kernel and middleware software stack.
+* Is one of the maintainers of AMDGPU DDX driver.
+* Has implemented several complex features for DRM ecosystem previously, has
+  100+ contributions as author, coauthor, and reviewer in mainline Kernel.
+  Some of his work can be seen at:
+  * https://bit.ly/38EgpoL
+* Is actively involved and visible in various opensource graphics projects
+  across the stack, like DRM Kernel, Xorg and DDX, Wayland and Weston, Kodi
+  etc.
+* Has implemented a few complex features for DRM subsystems like HDR, HDMI
+  2.0, YCBCR 4:2:0 etc.
+* More details about Shashank and his contributions can be found in this
+  website: https://www.shashanksharma.dev/
+
+## Ricardo Garcia
+
+__Current Affiliation:__ Igalia S.L.
+
+__Personal Statement:__
+
+If elected, my plan is to lend a hand so things get done, helping in matters
+such as XDC organization, CfP or anything the board could need from me.
+
+__Statement of Contribution:__
+
+I'm part of the graphics team at Igalia, where for the past 3 years I've worked
+mainly on the VK-GL-CTS Khronos project and the Vulkan specification. As part
+of my work, I communicate often with Mesa driver developers, specially the ones
+working on the V3DV and Turnip drivers, but also very often with RADV and ANV
+developers, either to clarify specification text and propose improvements to
+it, or fixing tests and adding new ones when we detect coverage gaps in CTS and
+driver bugs that go undetected.
+
+I've also submitted talks and participated in the last two editions of XDC and
+FOSDEM's graphics devroom this year.
+
+## Mark Filion
+
+__Current Affiliation:__ Collabora
+
+__Personal Statement:__
+
+If re-elected, I would like to continue putting my marketing knowledge to use
+to support X.Org in its growth. Key projects this year include a refresh of the
+X.Org website and finding new sponsors for the very first in-person (hopefully)
+XDC in three years.
+
+__Statement of Contribution:__
+
+Elected as the first non-technical board member (I am not a developer) just as
+Covid was taking over the world, my first term on the X.Org board has been a
+great learning experience. Prior to being elected, I was the proud organizer of
+the 2019 edition of XDC in Montreal, which brought in record attendance, new
+sponsors, and for the first time, attendee & speaker gifts.
+
+## Lucas Stach
+
+__Current Affiliation:__ Pengutronix
+
+__Personal Statement:__
+
+In 2012 the X.Org foundation enabled me to take part in XDC by covering my
+travel costs, which accelerated my professional career into open- source
+graphics. In the last few years I've been able to visit many conferences, both
+as attendee and speaker, but none of them master the balancing act of being
+both very high-profile, with in-depth technical discussions, and at the same
+time having an extremely low barrier of entry quite like XDC. I believe that
+this reflects very well on the whole X.Org community, as well as the X.Org
+foundation, which makes this possible due to its clear mission to foster this
+kind of open collaboration. When elected I would like to make sure that the
+foundation stays focused on this path and continues to be the critical resource
+it is today in bringing together our community.
+
+__Statement of Contribution:__
+
+I started my journey into open-source graphics as a hobby by contributing to
+the nouveau Mesa drivers. Since joining the Pengutronix graphics team in
+2013 my focus shifted more to embedded devices. I'm a contributor and the
+kernel driver maintainer to the etnaviv driver targeting Vivante GPUs, while
+also working on lots of other graphics related topics across the stack. I
+helped to ship quite a few products based on a fully open stack and try to
+contribute as much as possible of those developments into the upstream
+projects.
+
+## Alyssa Rosenzweig
+
+__Current Affiliation:__ Collabora
+
+__Personal Statement:__
+
+I represent open graphics – not a company.
+
+I lead two open drivers and care for the future of each. As an employee of an
+open source consultancy (Collabora), I’m free from conflicts of interest
+between a vendor’s bottom line and what’s right for our community.
+
+When proprietary drivers obstructed blobless Chromebooks, I reverse-engineered
+the Mali. When Imagination posted a compiler, I advised to ensure its
+sustainability. When only Apple’s GPU blocked universal open drivers, I grabbed
+an M1 and drew some triangles.
+
+We’ve entered a golden age. From old allies like Intel to newcomers like
+Imagination, every vendor’s hardware is growing a viable open driver stack.
+
+I don’t want us to lose that.
+
+We are winning, but we’re swimming with corporate sharks. Not every open source
+project survives its own success. We need a strong board that protects us, that
+welcomes diverse contributors but stands up against exploitation.
+
+We need eight individuals committed to sustainable software freedom in the
+graphics stack.
+
+I would be honoured to be one of eight.
+
+__Statement of Contribution:__
+
+Princess of Panfrost. Archduchess of Asahi.