Two new additions to the ACA Executive Committee in 2023

This year ACA added to its Executive Committee two new members to help with ACA's advocacy work, Carmelan Polce and John York. Both bring expertise in taxation, finance and investment and will work on developing strategies for our advocacy efforts.

  
Carmelan Polce

Carmelan was born in New York City and raised in Allentown, PA. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Temple University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Following more than two decades in the finance industry in Philadelphia, Melbourne and Sydney, Carmelan became the Executive Director of Jubilee Australia, a Sydney based anti-poverty NGO. She left Jubilee when her family relocated to Singapore for a work assignment. At that point she became a fulltime advocate for expat tax reform as Chair of the Democrats Abroad Taxation Task Force. She held that position from 2011 through 2021, publishing 6 major research papers, numerous position papers and briefing documents and dozens of campaigns for grassroots activists. She has met extensively over that time with Congress, the IRS and the DOT. In 2022 Carmelan was delighted to join ACA in support of its expat tax reform initiatives. She lives in Sydney with her partner and daughter.

 

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Carmelan recently joined ACA Executive Director, Marylouise Serrato, for a series of meetings on Capitol Hill talking tax reform, Residence-based taxation, Same Country Exemption and the need for Congressional Hearings with legislators and administrative offices.  John is working alongside ACA Legal Counsel Charles Bruce on a number of initiatives to increase the reach and awareness of ACA and ACA Global Foundation (ACAGF).