Yes, Lori was initiated at a convention - I'm thinking Palm Desert about 4 conventions ago. Also, I believe the Jackie is not an initiated member and the man who replaced Amy at the beginning of the year obviously isn't. She also isn't the first women of another NPC group to work for us - although I will say that they are in the minority of HQ hires. I don't know that any of the financial peopel (Tori and Stephanie) are AXiD's either.
Many of the women that have worked at HQ in the past 10 years or so have been ELC's. Previously, we have anwhere from 6-10. Four years ago that number changed. We had 2 for two years, 3 last year and now 4 this year (each one assigned to a specific territory). So our pool shrunk. Two of our current AED's worked in other positions as HQ prior to that and both were also ELC's. At one point almost everyone that worked at HQ that is an AXiD was a former ELC. So, you can see we really try to hire from "within" and we definately promote from within when able.
Also, 33girl is correct in saying that she will be the staff liasion for the National Ritual Chair - not the actual National Ritual Chair. I seriously doubt she will be able to access any true ritual information. It is more that she will work with them as some of the others work with other National Volunteers. I am Recruitment Director for the Midwest and I will have someone that I directly work with at HQ (when they fill the position). It is to provide consistance for the National Volunteers.
We are also short b/c Gretchen Knight moved positions as well and is now the head Recruitment contact at HQ in addition to (I believe) extension stuff.
As a volunteer, I'm not concerned about this. Of course if I was working with her, I'd be picking her brain for things that PiPhi does - we can all learn from each other.
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