Women's Forum of NC

08-09 BOARD

President: Debra Derr

AT&T- NC, Governmental Affairs Director

President-Elect: Robin Hudson

NC Supreme Court Justice

Secretary: Linda Suggs

Education Consultant

Treasurer: Jennifer Terry

Paragon Commercial Bank, Senior Vice-President

Past-President: Sandra (Sandy) Babb

HumanForce Consulting, Retired Founder & President

Barbara Allen

Progress Energy, Retired

Kathleen Balogh

NC Council for Women, Region Director, Weaverville

Andrea Bazan-Manson

President, Triangle Community Foundation, Inc.

Mimi Cunningham

Executive Drector of Community Relations at UNC-Wilmington

Valerie Fields

CEO, V.K.Fields & Co.

Karen Gottovi

Retired Director, NC Division of Aging; Former House Member, NC General Assembly

Lori Ann Harris

President, L.A. Harris and Assoc.

Jo Ann Norris

Public School Forum, Associate Executive Director

Patricia Orrange

The Next Level Consulting Group

Connie Parker

Executive Dir., NC Assn School-Community Health Centers

Melissa Reed

NARAL-NC, Executive Director

Jennifer Tolle Whiteside

CEO/President, NC Community Foundation

The Women's Forum of North Carolina, Inc. is an invitational, non-partisan organization of diverse women leaders of proven influence. Its members are dedicated to working together to achieve equality and maintain social, economic and political power for women.

Projects

Two current projects focus on the Forum's efforts to develop potential leaders:

The Young Adult Leadership Award

This annual award honors a young North Carolinian, female or male, between the ages of 21 and 30, who has demonstrated leadership in improving the lives of North Carolinians, especially female. Note that in earlier years the age range was 18-35, but for 2007, the Forum chose to focus on women and men 21-30.

The NC Center for Women in Public Service

Founded in June 2003, as a collaboration of the Forum and Peace College, the Center is the first organization in the state to address the urgent need for women-specific recruitment, training, and mentoring to increase the number of women in appointed and elected office. Applications for the 2008 Summer Institute, an intensive summer leadership program that prepares women to seek elected or appointed office, are now being accepted. The deadline is April 30.
For more about the center or for an application form for one of its programs, please see www.nccwps.org.

In addition the Forum furthers its goals by positioning its members for seats on public and private boards and commissions and by supporting NC Women United, a consensus based coalition empowering women's public policy efforts.

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