Burn2 Board of Directors

Candidate Nomination

A Board of Directors for Burn2

Burn2 is moving toward becoming a nonprofit organization, with Bylaws that were recently accepted. We are now working on creating a Board of Directors for Burn2.

Voting Members of Burn2 are able to nominate themselves or other members to run as candidates for the Board.

Candidates must meet the following requirements:

Be qualified to become a Voting Member of Burn2
Have volunteered for any position in at least one of the prior Burn2 events or committees, in the past year and state what volunteer role they filled.
Be able to provide a legal name (privately) to become a candidate for director.*

You can nominate someone, or you can self-nominate. When using the form, if you indicate you are nominating someone, you will be able to provide your own avatar username and avatar UUID as the nominating person.

*You would only be expected to provide your legal name if you are elected to the Board.

Nomination Period

Candidate nomination is open now
through July 1, 2026.

Dates of the Election

The election for the Board of Directors will run July 8 through July 29, 2026. We will be electing seven (7) individuals for the Board. Results will be announced at the July 30, 2026 planning meeting.

Candidate Nomination Form

"People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating."

Larry Harvey

"Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things."
Larry Harvey

"We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird.
It verges on the wholly other."
Larry Harvey

Radical Inclusion: Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

Gifting: Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

Communal Effort: Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Decommodification: In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

Radical Self-expression: Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.

Radical Self-reliance: Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.

Civic Responsibility: We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

Participation: Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Leaving No Trace: Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Immediacy: Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.