Wow.

I am not an IBCLC, nor ever likely to be one, and especially unlikely having read this. It does mean I can be outside looking in....and this sort of governance of IBCLCs' education, training and assessment is not democratic and it is not even safe. You can't have a body - an internationally-focussed body which purports to be diverse and representative  - able to change its structure and laws on the say-so of three people (which as Liz explains in her original post of August last year, can now happen). 

I bet many of us belong to PTAs, book groups, volunteer and action groups, and some  experience of what happens when power becomes concentrated in a few hands. Of course, a book group disappearing in a flurry of resignations doesn't really matter, but that's not the case here. 

Heather Welford Neil
UK

> On 2 Jan 2018, at 11:44 am, Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I shared a long post in August 2017 about IBLCE's proposed by-laws
> revisions, which were offered for public comment.  I had several
> reservations, as an IBCLC certificant governance geek, with the proposed
> changes.
> 
> I duly submitted by concerns and suggestions through IBLCE's public comment
> portal for the document.  (With any luck, this link will bring you to the
> Lactnet Archives post where I describe my concerns:
> http://community.lsoft.com/scripts/WA-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A2=ind1708B&L=LACTNET&P=R57
> )
> 
> IBLCE released their final version of their revised by-laws on 30 November
> 2017 (look in your emails for your e-newsletter from IBLCE on that date).
> By the document's date one can see it was formally adopted by board motion
> in September 2017.
> https://iblce.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/iblce-bylaws-2017.pdf
> 
> IBLCE did not make any changes, not a one, after the public comment period.
> 
> And so, my concerns about effective governance, given the extraordinary
> power vested in the Executive Committee of the IBLCE (a five-person subset
> of the full IBLCE Board), remain.
> 
> -- 
> Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC, FILCA
> Wyndmoor, PA, USA
> Director, Human Milk Banking Assn of North America (2015-17)
> Adjunct Professor, Drexel Univ, Public Policy of Breastfeeding
> "IBCLCs empower women and save babies' lives!"-Ursuline Singleton
> 
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