Myrna L. Fawcett specializes in Elderlaw, trusts and estate planning, asset protection and representation of adults with special needs. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Barnard College of Columbia University.

Among her volunteer and pro bono activities have been: attorney volunteer at the Probate Resource Center, DC Superior Court; Member and past Chair, the Board of Trustees, Washington Parks and People; Member, the Board of Trustees and Chair, compensation committee, Barnard College of Columbia University; Member, Board of Directors, Foggy Bottom West End Village; Member. Board of Directors, D.C. Jewish Community Center; Member. Advisory Board, Mitchell Gallery, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland; Member, Advisory Board, Seabury Elder Resources, Washington and Member, Board of Directors of her residential Cooperative building She has been a member of Leadership Greater Washington and the Theater J Council. She also received an Alumnae Award for her service to Barnard College.

Ms. Fawcett is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York bars, and of the National Academy of Elder Lawyers. She has participated in multiple programs on issues involving hoarding, advanced directives, bioethical issues and financial options for seniors as well as being mentioned in several national magazines.

Pamela Horowitz was one of the first lawyers hired at the Southern Poverty Law Center by founders Joe Levin and Morris Dees. During her tenure there, she successfully argued an historic gender discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court. She now sits on the SPLC Board. Her 30-year legal career also included being a Legislative Counsel with the ACLU and a partner with a Washington, DC law firm. She also worked in partnership with her late husband, Julian Bond on multiple public, private, and academic projects and is involved in several activities honoring his legacy.

Terry Brackett is a retired Washington, D.C. energy lawyer and former legal advisor to Dr. Matthew Holden at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.  She has done extensive volunteer work concentrating on issues impacting women, including sexual violence and sex trafficking. Ms. Brackett is a member of the Board of the US National Committee for UN Women and serves on the Advisory Board for the Asolo Repertory Theatre Company, WUSF Public Radio Station and Protect Our Defenders.  She was also the Festival Director for 9 years of Through Women’s Eyes International Film Festival and is currently on their Advisory Board.

Mary Braxton-Joseph is an Emmy-award winning television journalist and media consultant who has worked in both the United States and South Africa.  She co-founded a South African film production company while living in South Africa. She conducted the initial research ---including an interview with President Nelson Mandela---for “Apartheid’s Last Stand,” a documentary on Robben Island prisoners for the Discovery Channel.  She also served as South Africa Project Coordinator for “Tutu and Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace,” a documentary on race and reconciliation that featured Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Dr. John Hope Franklin. Mary currently serves as Chair of the IlumiNation Advisory Committee on the Board of the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.  She also screens and presents films for the "Through Women's Eyes" Film Festival---a festival that showcases films written, directed and/or produced by women.

Michele Janin is a community leader living in Indianapolis.   Early in her career, she worked in public relations and philanthropy, in the US, Asia and England.  Later she turned her focus to volunteering with educational and community-based organizations.  Her recent work includes board positions with Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, WFYI Public Media, and Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.  Michele is particularly interested in advancing issues of social justice and women’s rights, and is thrilled to be part of this effort to celebrate voting rights for women.

Chloe Maxmin grew up on her family;s farm in Nobleboro and has devoted her life to fighting for Maine. She started the Climate Action Club at Lincoln Academy and worked with students, teachers, community members, and businesses on local & environmental and climate issues. She then attended Harvard College and co-founded Divest Harvard, a campaign calling on Harvard University to divest from fossil fuels that ultimately drew 70,000 supporters. The day after she graduated, Chloe moved back to Maine. She has organized on many issues facing Maine--including Medicaid expansion, Universal Home Care, energy policy, and rural transportation options. Now she is running for the Maine House of Representatives in District 88. 

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Debbie has lived in the Washington DC area for the past three decades; she grew up in Ontario, Canada. Debbie worked as a computer engineer in NASA's communication division at Goddard Space Flight Center until she retired in 1999. Debbie is the Vice President of the Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman Foundation.
Debbie is a major supporter of the arts and humanities in the Washington, DC area serving on the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Honorary Board of the Halcyon Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation, the Board of Directors of Washington Performing Arts, the Board of Montgomery Community Media, The Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Theatre and the National Council of the White House Historical Association. She and Frank Islam are members of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts, the Abraham Lincoln National Council at Ford’s Theater, the Wilson Center National Cabinet and the Madison Council at the Library of Congress.

Karen Kalish is a serial social entrepreneur focused on literacy, closing the academic, opportunity, and achievement gaps in the nation’s schools, and ending all forms of discrimination, especially racial. She is the founder of three nonprofits and one program: Operation Understanding DC in Washington, D.C. and Cultural Leadership, HOME WORKS! The Teacher Home Visit Program, and Books and Badges in St. Louis.

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Pamela Rice is a multi-talented designer devoted to making a difference in the community in a wide range of areas including the environment, the arts and media.  She has designed nature trails, gardens, and drought tolerant landscape installations for local communities; costume and set design for theatre and film and recently created the television series, Waterway Gourmet, exploring the history, culture and foods of Europe through traveling its historic canals. Dedicated to serving diverse communities in New Jersey, California, and now New Hampshire, she was awarded the Paul Harris lifetime Award for community service work.

Alexis McGill Johnson is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Perception Institute. A thought leader and a bridge builder whose work spans politics, academia, social activism, and cultural strategies, her career focuses on improving the lives of young people, with an emphasis on youth of color. Alexis has explored the shifting paradigms of identity politics in the post-civil rights era, increasing civic engagement among youth and people of color, and the implications for demographic and ideological changes of these constituencies on national politics   As Political Director of Russell Simmon’s Hip Hop Summit, Alexis  helped launch a new model for reaching young people and people of color resulting in the most significant increase in youth voter engagement in a decade.

La’Meshia “LA” Whittington-Kaminski, a native of the mountains in Western North Carolina, fell in love with community engagement and service when, as a little girl, she accompanied her mother and grandmother to local missions, and to the homes of elders to give volunteer services in their rural community. She watched her mother become the first Black woman, in their region of North Carolina, to independently own and operate a beauty supply business specializing in cranial prosthesis, that not only handled international contracts but developed a community-based model wig bank to support citizens facing chemotherapy and alopecia. This solid foundation of service led La’Meshia into a life of service.

While an undergrad, La’Meshia and her brother co-founded TW2 Inc 501(c)3, a non-traditional satellite Arts school providing music lessons and instruments to community centers and schools across the state of North Carolina. La’Meshia is also the co-founder of The Scale Academy of Performing Arts, a premier family-owned music school in Southeast Raleigh, NC. La’Meshia іѕ a classically trаіnеd іnѕtrumеntаlіѕt, performing over 7 іnѕtrumеntѕ. Her muѕіс has been hеаrd іn nаtіоnаl commercials, radio stations, аnd festivals. Lа’Mеѕhіа hаіlѕ from a long line of fаmіlу Fоlk muѕісіаnѕ that hеlреd shape the muѕіс lаndѕсаре оf North Cаrоlіnа, including her great-cousin, Pіеdmоnt-Bluеѕ guitarist and a tеасhеr of Bob Dylan and Tаj Mаhаl, Mѕ. Ettа Baker.

As a descendant of ‘The Kingdom of The Happy Land”, a post-slavery settlement rooted in agriculture and forestry established in the Appalachian mountains, Lа’Mеѕhіа has made it a personal mission to advocate for agriculture, a clean environment, and rural communities. Before accepting the role of Democracy Cаmраіgnеr for Friends of the Earth U.S. She served over 100,000 youth as the NC 4-H State President, implemented a political debate series Teen NC Spin featured on WRAL, worked as a political analyst for various campaigns ranging from state house to court of appeals to gubernatorial races; she served as an NC redistricting expert for various progressive organizations and served as a college lecturer on the same subject. Now, She lеаdѕ work in policy/advocacy, community engagement and rеѕеаrсh on the intersections of human rights, ѕосіаl rights, and еnvіrоnmеntаl juѕtісе, specifically environmental racism present in соmmunіtіеѕ-оf-соlоr. Finally, after coordinating over 250 water and land rescues during the climate disaster: Hurricane Florence and coordinating immediate supply drops to hundreds of citizens post-Hurricane Michael, Lа’Mеѕhіа is a founding member of Green Responders, a dіѕаѕtеr community-bаѕеd relief оrgаnіzаtіоn. This organization, along with Friends of the Earth and various other groups has delivered thousands of supplies to over 20,000 families.

La’Meshia is honored and exuberant to be apart of this effort to celebrate voting rights for women

Benita Hofstetter Koman is the Executive Director of The Roy Cockrum Foundation which awards grants to support world class performing arts projects in not-for-profit professional theaters in the United States.

For 25 years Ms. Hofstetter Koman ran BHK Arts Consultants Inc. as a federal contractor for the National Endowment for the Arts with the on-site program for Theater, Musical Theater and Opera. She also ran executive searches for regional theatres.

Ms. Hofstetter Koman was a Washington DC freelance casting director for feature films, television, commercials, industrials and theater.

Additionally Ms. Hofstetter Koman produced and stage managed large-scale special events for many women’s political organizations including National Partnership for Women and Families, the National Women’s Law Center, Women’s Policy Inc, plus she was the stage manager for the Torch Relay at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. Benita Hofstetter Koman served as Producing Associate/Casting Director at Arena Stage in Washington DC for 3 seasons under Zelda Fichandler.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan, she was the Production Stage Manager for 9 seasons at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

Ms Hofstetter Koman’s mother was very active with the Cleveland League of Women Voters. Some of her earliest memories are helping her mother sell calendars as a fundraiser for the League.