Five Things Mandy Gooch Said
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Five Things Mandy Gooch Said |
| Interviewer: | Claudia Rebaza |
| Interviewee: | Mandy Gooch |
| Date(s): | December 15, 2017 |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | Five Things Mandy Gooch Said |
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Five Things Mandy Gooch Said a 2017 Q&A guest post, conducted by the Organization for Transformative Works' Communications Committee with Mandy Gooch.
It is part of a series. See Five Things Said.
Excerpts
How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?
As a Strategic Planning (SP) committee member, I am involved in helping to grow and develop the OTW as an organization through implementation of its strategic planning goals. We do this work so that the OTW can keep focused on particular things we want to have happen in the future, and so that we’ll have the guidelines and tools we need to help that happen.
Some of the ways we’ll do this is to make sure volunteers understand their roles and how to do them, to make sure our board and the leaders of our committees can hand their roles on to others when they need to change their positions or move on, and to make it as easy and clear as possible to do the different tasks that the OTW, as a non-profit, needs to do to be accountable to its users and supporters. My committee doesn’t come up with these plans so much as it helps all the different parts of the OTW come up with them. We help them decide what’s truly important for both their committee and the OTW as a whole, and then help make sure that progress is getting made by all parts of the organization since some groups are farther along in some details than others. Because Strategic Planning’s mission is about the future, we work most closely with the Board and the chairs of the OTW committees who will guide us there, and help them think about what’s coming when they’re usually busy dealing with today’s problems.
I am also a Tag Wrangling volunteer, which is where I get to dabble in the fandom side of things a bit more. It’s a lot of fun and is a way that I can be more connected to fandom without actually creating fanworks. It’s also a really great way to find new authors in AO3, which is fantastic on the one hand…and also dangerous on the other since my To Read list keeps growing and growing!
What fannish things do you like to do?
I read a lot of fanfiction in my spare time and years ago I used to write a little here and there. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time or motivation to write fanfiction right now, so I consume a lot to make up for it. I also enjoy conventions and cosplay. Creating costumes has been a passion since I was a kid and I really enjoy making a costume and interacting with other fans at conventions.