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Charlotte Kea '82 |
| Bowie, Maryland |
| President, 2007–2010 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:
Member, Common Ground Committee; keynote speaker, Discovery Weekend; founder and participant, Alumnae of Color Reunion; member, Special Fund Class Committee; chair, Diversity Advisory Group; member since 1989, Smith College Club of Washington; volunteer, pecan/scholarship fundraising; AASC board member, SCCW. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Recently joined The Whelan Group, a New-York based corporation specializing in strategic planning and fundraising management services for non-profit organizations with four focus areas: social services, education, community and economic development, and arts and culture. Director of Development, Development Gateway Foundation; director of corporate relations, International Youth Foundation; business development manager, Iridium LLC; special assistant and program officer at US Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Congressional Research Service; Georgetown MSFS examiner; board member, Operation Respect, International Career Advancement Association; member, Council on Foreign Relations and Junior League of Washington Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. |
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Audrey Paek ’92 |
| Boston, Massachusetts |
| Vice president, 2005–2008 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: AAC chair for Boston; director, Smith College Club of Boston; member, Logistics Committee, 2004 Alumnae of Color Reunion; volunteer, Big Sister/Little Sister Program. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: diversity initiatives manager, WGBH Educational Foundation; past president, National Association of Asian Professionals—Boston chapter (NAAP); co-chair, 2002 NAAP national conference; former co-chair of the New England Regional Forum and the Silk Road fundraising gala for the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, and member of the task force’s development committee; mentor, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston; member, events committee benefiting Ailey Camp Boston, a dance camp for Boston youth; former equal opportunity/inclusion advisor, Monster.com; 2003 recipient of the Boston Jaycees’ (Junior Chamber of Commerce) Ten Outstanding Young Leaders Award. |
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Lynn Steppacher Martin ’75 |
| Manhasset, New York |
| Treasurer, 2005–2008 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Special Gift Committee, 25th Reunion, 2000. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: senior investment professional with twenty-five years’ experience in investment management and investment banking; managing director and senior portfolio manager at Credit Suisse Asset Management (successor to Warburg Pincus Asset Management); recipient in 2003 of prestigious One CSFB Award for inspiring and mentoring women throughout the firm; recipient, 1999 Employee Excellence Award; member, CSFB Chairman’s Women’s Initiative Steering Committee and CSFB Leadership Institute Advisory Board; active for more than twenty years in The Financial Women’s Association of New York, serving five terms on the board; treasurer, Women’s Campaign Fund, a national organization supporting progressive women political candidates; board member, Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. |
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Diane Dukette ’87 |
| West Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Clerk, 2006–2009 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Former board member, Hampshire County Smith Club; treasurer, membership chair. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Executive director of development, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Massachusetts; former assistant vice chancellor for advancement, University of Massachusetts Amherst; director of development, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst; director of major gifts and planned giving, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center; chair, West Springfield Public Library Board of Trustees. |
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Lillian Agapalidou-Panagopoulou ’70 |
| Athens, Greece |
| Director, 2005–2008 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: AAC, Greece; NAAC, Region 12, Europe; AARC, Region 21, Europe; member, Smith Group of Athens, Greece; Organizing Committee, 1988 Smith-in-Europe Network Meeting, Athens, Greece; member, Planning Committee, “Women of Influence” regional symposium, London, 2003. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: high school English teacher, Athens College, Athens, Greece; head of the English department (grades 7–12); director, Model United Nations Club; owner and director of studies, Foreign Language Institute; member, Pierce College Alumni Association; member, Association of Fulbright Scholars; protocol assistant, International Olympic Committee Relations and Protocol; volunteer, Athens 2004 Olympics. |
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Caroline Soleliac Carbaugh ’66 |
| Fort Washington, Maryland |
| Director, 2007–2010 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: President, vice president, treasurer, and pecan chair of Smith College Club of Washington, DC; Alumnae Association Regional Coordinator (AARC) for the mid-Atlantic region; class president and fund team coordinator; member, Smith College Medal Committee. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Information technology specialist and software project manager at the US Census Bureau; president, treasurer, and chair of many committees in my local garden club; historian of the National Capital Area Garden Clubs; held leadership positions in many school and athletic organizations with which my children were involved. |
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Cecily Hines ’73 |
| Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Director, 2006–2009 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Co-chair of annual Smith Day fundraiser two years; head of various departments for annual Smith Day fundraiser for numerous years since 1983; president, Minnesota Smith Club; vice president, Minnesota Smith Club. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: General counsel for ev3 Inc.; general counsel of international business for Boston Scientific Corporation; general counsel for Scimed Lifesystems, Inc.; general counsel consultant for numerous companies; assistant professor, Hamline University; attorney, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP; chair, board of directors for the Illusion Theater; member, board of Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy; member, board of the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund; member, board of Graywolf Press. |
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Caroline Walsh Holt ’97 |
| Washington, D.C. |
| Director, 2005–2008 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: member, board of directors, Smith Club of Washington, D.C. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: human resources practitioner, Corporate Executive Board in Washington, D.C.; director of business development, Corporate Executive Board; director of the Alex Walsh Memorial Scholarship Fund; lacrosse coach at local boys and girls club. |
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Linda Kramer Jenning ’72 (SAQ Liaison) |
| Alexandria, Virginia |
| Director/Quarterly liaison, 2007–2010 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Smith College Club of Washington, DC; former member and recroding secretary, Smith College Club of Oregon. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Former deputy bureau chief, People magazine in Washington, DC; adjunct professor, Georgetown University; 2006 Shapiro Fellow, The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs; scholarship chair and former board member, Journalism & Women Symposium; member, National Press Club; former fellow, Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families; formerly with The Associated Press in New York City, San Francisco, and Oregon; freelanced for Time magazine and other publications. |
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Norma A. Melgoza ’92 |
| Chicago, Illinois |
| Director, 2005–2008 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: involved with recruitment events since 1995; Alumnae Admissions Coordinator; recruitment coordinator and treasurer of Smith College Club of Chicago. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Assistant Vice President, Rush University Medical Center; Assistant Vice President, Mount Sinai Hospital; founder, Melgoza Growth Management Company; consultant, Illinois Poison Control Center and Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council; participant, Principal for a Day with the Chicago public schools; primary benefactor of Latina women’s fiction reading group for a community church; member, New York University Robert F. Wagner Alumni Advisement Career Program for current and former students. |
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Alice Schlegel ’56 |
| Tucson, Arizona |
| Director, 2006–2009 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Co-vice president of the Tucson Smith Club; talks given to clubs in CA and AZ. |
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Professor of anthropology, University of Arizona; president, Society for Cross‑Cultural Research; Anthropology Panel, National Science
Foundation; grants evaluator for American Council of Learned Societies and other agencies; cultural editor, American Anthropologist; co‑editor, Ethnology; invited lectures at many universities and other educational institutions; author or co‑author of several books and many articles; board member, Tucson Boys and Girls Clubs; founder and coordinator of Borderlands Network of Tucson and Hermosillo, Mexico. |
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Adrianne Todman ’91 |
| Washington, DC |
| Director/Chair, Regional Club Coordinators, 2005–2008 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: President, Smith College Club of Washington, D.C.; Young Alumnae Coordinator; Book Award Coordinator; Alumnae Fund Agent; Planning Committee for Black Alumnae Reunion |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Current Deputy Chief of Staff, District of Columbia Housing Authority; Board Member, AARP Young Leaders Circle; Volunteer Read Aloud, Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School; Special Assistant to HUD Secretary; Legislative Director, U.S. House of Representatives |
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Katya Wilson ’82 |
| Vancouver BC, Canada |
| Director, 2007–2010 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: NAAC, Region 5 (Canada and the Great Lakes); 25th Reunion special gift fund agent; AAC for Western Canada; co-AAC; member, regional symposium planning committee. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Principal, AMBiT Consulting Inc., a strategic program management, specializing in managing public sector projects, particularly in health care and higher education. Twenty years’ experience in consulting, small business, and corporate management. Election day volunteer for several municipal elections; provincial election campaign volunteer; volunteer high school volleyball coach. |
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Jacquelyn Woodworth ’92 |
| Brooklyn, New York |
Chair, Network of Alumnae Admission Coordinators (NAAC)
2006-2009 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: AAC, Smith Club of New York City; board member, Smith Club of New York City; NAAC for Region Four (New York State); Volunteer, 10th Reunion Committee; class fund agent. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Attorney; member, City University of New York School of Law Alumnae Association; member, Pacific Street Block Association; participant, fundraising speaker, and training walk leader, Avon Breast Cancer 3 Days; participant, AIDS Ride Boston to New York. |
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JoAnne Lyons Wooten ’74 |
| Mitchellville, Maryland |
| Director, 2007-2010 |
| SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Common Ground Alumnae Committee; chair, 2004 Alumnae of Color Reunion; Organizing Committee, Emergency Fund for Smith Women of Color, AASC Diversity Task Force; Admission Committee, Smith College Club of Washington; dinner speaker, Women of Distinction. |
| PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Realtor, Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.; principal, The JBW Group, LLC, a private investment management company that specializes in real estate projects; National Association of Realtors; National Association of Real Estate Brokers; mentor, Jwanzaa Youth Partnership, Inc.; life member, NAACP. |
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