Dr. Donna Christy for MSEA President

10/28/2026

MSEA is growing.

That is something all of us should celebrate.

But if we want that growth to continue, we have to understand what actually produces it.

Membership does not grow because someone at the top announces that the union grew.

It grows when a member has a conversation with a colleague.

When a building representative follows up with someone who has not joined.

When local leaders create workplaces where members can see and feel the value of belonging to their union.

When organizers keep showing up.

And when members believe that joining together gives them a better chance of changing the things that matter in their professional lives.

I have seen that work firsthand in PGCEA.

Growth requires persistence. It happens worksite by worksite, conversation by conversation, year after year.

So when MSEA celebrates statewide membership growth, I want us to ask the next questions:

Where are we growing?

Why are we growing there?

What can we learn from the locals producing that growth?

And what support do locals that are struggling need from MSEA to build stronger organizing structures of their own?

Because statewide membership growth is really thousands of local organizing decisions added together.

Growth is not a talking point.

Growth is organizing.

Our Members. Our Locals. Our Power.

Together We Rise.

10/26/2026

The strength of MSEA begins with the strength of our locals.

That matters because members experience their union locally first.

They experience it when a building representative answers a question.

When a member needs help enforcing the contract.

When educators organize around workload, safety, staffing, or another problem in their workplace.

When members show up together at a school board meeting and decision-makers know they are not standing there alone.

That is where union power is built.

And I believe MSEA’s job is to help every local build more of it.

Not with a one-size-fits-all program.

Not by deciding from the top what a local needs.

But by asking:

What are your members trying to change?

What is standing in their way?

What capacity does your local need to win?

Then MSEA should bring the organizing support, leadership development, communications, political relationships, training, and resources that help that local become stronger.

Because statewide power is not created by concentrating power at the top.

It is created when members are organized, local leaders have the capacity to lead, and locals across Maryland are strong enough to act.

That is the MSEA I want us to build together.

Our Members. Our Locals. Our Power.

Together We Rise.

10/24/2026

Another Saturday representing our union.

Because union leadership is not really a job.

It’s a lifestyle. 😊

Today: Progressive Maryland Summit.

10/23/2026

Leadership is not credit.

One of the things I believe deeply about unions is that our victories almost never belong to one person.

Membership grows because members organize members.

Contracts get stronger because bargaining teams, members, staff, and leaders do the work.

Political victories happen because relationships are built, members are mobilized, coalitions are formed, and people stay with the work long enough to win.

Good leadership matters.

But leadership is not standing at the finish line and taking credit for a race other people ran.

Leadership is understanding what produced the result and building the capacity to do it again.

That is the kind of leadership I believe MSEA needs.

Leadership that builds strong locals.

Leadership that develops organizers and leaders.

Leadership that builds relationships before we need them.

Leadership that turns ambitious goals into actual strategies.

Leadership that produces results.

Because our greatest strength has never been the person at the top.

It is our members.

Our Members. Our Locals. Our Power.

Together We Rise.

10/19/2026

What an incredible moment at the MSEA Representative Assembly.

I had the opportunity to stand before delegates from across Maryland and share why I am running to be the next President of MSEA.

I believe our association can be stronger.

Stronger membership.
Stronger locals.
Stronger relationships.
And leadership that knows how to turn all three into results.

I have spent my career organizing, building trust, strengthening relationships, and helping members turn collective power into real wins. That is the leadership I am ready to bring to MSEA.

This campaign is about what becomes possible when members and locals have the power, capacity, and support they need to succeed.

Together We Rise.

10/01/2026

09/24/2026

Healthy unions are not built on agreement. They are built on trust, accountability, and the ability to disagree without treating dissent as disloyalty.

I believe fiduciary responsibility is a duty to protect the organization and its members, not a tool to suppress debate or settle political disagreements.

As MSEA President, I will protect the right of elected leaders and members to ask hard questions, challenge recommendations, propose alternatives, and vote their conscience without fear that disagreement will be treated as misconduct.

Major decisions, including decisions about dues, budgets, legislative priorities, and organizational direction, deserve transparent information, meaningful debate, and genuine participation before outcomes are decided.

Democratic governance is sometimes uncomfortable. It can be messy. But debate is not dysfunction, and dissent is not betrayal.

MSEA will be stronger when members and elected leaders know that their voices matter, that disagreement is welcomed, and that governance bodies are trusted to do the work they were elected to do.

That is the kind of leadership I will bring to MSEA.