# April 2025 - Committee Elections

## Committee elections

Intersect is a member-based organization (MBO), which means the community is in charge of steering and organizing the future of Cardano’s blockchain. Anyone or any organization in the community can choose to join Intersect.

The board currently has five seats. IOG and EMURGO hold two. Wyoming State University holds the education seat; two seats are available for Intersect membership.

The committees are teams made up of people from the Cardano community. They steer and provide recommendations on behalf of the community at large.

In October 2024, the first elections selected half of the committee members. Now, in this second election, the remaining seats will be filled—completing the committees and strengthening community-led governance for the year ahead.

## Eligibility

Only Individual and Enterprise members or employees of our seed founding organisations **are** eligible to apply for a seat on a committee as stated in the member benefits.

Associates **are not** eligible to apply as they do not hold this benefit.

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The deadline to join as an individual or enterprise member to run for a committee seat or vote in the election is **April 11th at 12PM UTC.**
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## Key Dates

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<summary>Application period</summary>

The application period will be open from **March 24th** at 12 PM UTC to **April 11th** at 12 PM UT&#x43;**.**

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<summary>Voting Period</summary>

The voting period, will be held from the **16th of April** at 12 PM UTC to the **7th of May** at 12 PM UTC.

</details>

<details>

<summary>Voting Results</summary>

The results will be published on **May 12**.

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