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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: Currently Senior Director of Development for the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) in Washington D.C. Senior consultant, The Whelan Group; 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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	Lisa Ilka Abrams ’90
	Tucson, Arizona
	Vice president, 2008-2011
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Member, Nominating Committee; Smith club president; AARC; and AAC.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Partner with the law firm of Karp Heurlin Weiss; public defender; in- house counsel for Tucson Unified School District; frequent lecturer and speaker; member, State Bar of Arizona, the Pima County and American Bar Associations, and the Arizona Women Lawyers Association; named in 2005 as one of Tucson’s 40 Under 40 by the Tucson Business Edge; mother to two boys.


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	Rehana Farrell ’92
	Princeton, New Jersey
	Treasurer, 2008-2011
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Volunteer, Princeton Smith Club; class fund agent; special gifts chair; member, Alumnae Fund Committee.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: CFO, Merrill Lynch Global Private Client International and Head of Finance & Analysis; member, Diversity & Inclusion Council for Merrill Lynch; board member, Financial Women’s Association; former strategy and finance executive at Smith Barney and Prudential Financial; former Booz Allen & Hamilton consultant; Columbia Business School Young Alumni Council.


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	Peg Merzbacher '77
	Norwell, Massachusetts
	Clerk, 2009–2012
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: NAAC for Region 1 (MA); AAC, Massachusetts South Shore; class fund agent; member, Boston Smith club.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE:Director of marketing, Peapod, one of the country’s largest Internet grocers; over 25 years of experience in retail food marketing in both the bricks and mortar and online grocery channels; local chairperson for American Field Service Foreign Exchange Program; host of several foreign students, Girl Scout leader.


	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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	Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy ’02
	Karachi, Pakistan
	Director, 2008-2011
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Advise undergraduate students on getting internships in the media.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Currently investigative reporter for Channel 4 Television and PBS Frontline World; former New York Times television correspondent; former Discovery Times correspondent; recipient of numerous awards, including Overseas Press Club Award for International Reporting, American Women and Radio Award for International Correspondent, and One World Media Award; founder, Citizens Archive of Pakistan; member, Human Rights Watch, Young Advocates Toronto; patron, Afghan Connection; patron, MariGold Fund.


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	Fiona Ward Clapp ’87
	New Rochelle, New York
	Chair, NAAC, 2009–2013
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: AAC and member, Smith College Club of Westchester, New York; NAAC for Region 4 (New York State); former member, Smith College Club of London; volunteer, 20th Reunion Committee.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Former retail sales manager, Tiffany & Co., New York City and London; former task force chair and member of the Grants Committee, Golden Shoestring; member of the Scholarship Committee and sustaining member, Junior League of Westchester-on-the-Sound; Annual Fund parent volunteer, Hackley School; former member of the Benefit Committee, Concordia Conservatory; former fundraising chair, SJP School; mother of boy and twin girls.


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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 recording secretary, Smith College Club of Oregon.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Currently Washington DC Editor, Glamour magazine; 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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	Peggie Ward Koon ’74
	Augusta, Georgia
	Director, 2009–2012
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Hostess for Coretta Scott King’s pre-funeral musical celebration with classmate Yolanda King ’75; participant, 2004 Smith College Alumnae of Color Weekend; longtime AAC for various regions around the country; member, BASC.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Deputy COO, Morris DigitalWorks; long career in the field of process control and process automation. Author of 16 technical papers on process control, process automation, computer integrated manufacturing, optimal resource allocation, disaster recovery, partnering, and other IT management issues for professional organizations such as the International Society of Automation(ISA) and the IEEE Industry Applications Society. DVP-Elect ISA Industries & Sciences (2010-2012), ISA Honors & Awards Committee (2009-2011), Past Director ISA Management Division, Marketing & Sales Summit Planning Committee, Board of Directors Women’s Ministry, First Baptist Church


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	Lisa Lauterbach Laskin ’88
	Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Director, 2008-2011
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Class president, vice president, and 10th Reunion chair; Fund agent and 5th Reunion special gifts chair.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Associate dean, Harvard Summer School; lecturer on history, Department of History, Harvard University; former annual fund and planned giving manager, Harvard Business School; coordinator, University Planned Giving, Harvard University; former Executive Committee member, Harvard Yard Child Care Center.


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	Leslie Dean Mark ’83
	Leawood, Kansas
	Chair, Regional Club Coordinators (RCC), 2009–2012
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Alumnae admissions volunteer; class fund agent; 25-year volunteer and past president, Greater Kansas City Smith College Club; RCC for Region 8 (Midwest).
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Owner, LDM Calligraphy & Graphic Design; line designer/artist, Hallmark Cards, Inc.; member, the Washington Calligraphers Guild; Helzberg Fellow, Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City; member/volunteer, AFS-USA; local school volunteer.


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	Erin Alexander Paisan ’87
	Dallas, Texas
	Director, 2008-2011
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Volunteer, Minneapolis-St.Paul Smith Club; recruiting and admissions volunteer, Chicago-area Smith club; Dallas-area recruiting coordinator and club officer; AAC chair for Dallas-Ft. Worth; Smith Reunion parade co-chair.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Currently senior communication consultant, Holmes Murphy & Associates insurance brokerage and financial services firm; former HR communication consultant, Hewitt Associates; research editor/general assignment reporter, Crain’s Chicago Business; senior reporter at New Orleans Citibusiness; recipient of Peter A. Lisagor Award for Excellence in Reporting; coordinator, Habitat for Humanity and Salvation Army holiday gift distribution drives; member, Hewitt Associates Foundation’s Advisory and Charitable Distribution Group.


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	Lois D. Thompson ’66
	Los Angeles, California
	Director, 2009–2012
	SMITH VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Special gifts chair, 25th and 40th Reunions; treasurer, Smith College Club of Los Angeles; president, Smith College Club of Los Angeles; vice president, Smith College Club of Los Angeles; frequent traveler with Smith Travel program.
	PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC EXPERIENCE: Dispute resolution partner, Proskauer, Rose LLP; judicial law clerk; admitted to the state bars of California and New York, as well as to the US Supreme Court, US Circuit Courts for the Second, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits, US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of NY, Southern, Central and Northern Districts of CA; volunteer for several bar and civic activities both nationally and locally.


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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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	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.