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Does Woman of the Year Islas Have a Conflict for Termed-Out Council Seat?

Joan Harrington, fellow, quoted by GV Wire.

Fresno Unified Trustee Veva Isals is the Assembly District 31 “Woman of the Year,” Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno, is running. She's also program director of nonprofit Cultiva La Salud and sits on the board of nonprofit Fresno Building Healthy Communities.

Joan Harrington, with the Santa Clara University Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said it is OK to have nonprofit leaders on the boards of other nonprofit boards.

“It’s not that unusual to have a situation where there’s a person on the board who’s intimately involved in the same work. So this can come up in a really benign way, and it can also come up in a really bad way,” Harrington said.

Joan Harrington, fellow, quoted by GV Wire.

 

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