WNBA/Washington: Chapter Board
2007-2008
Below is the WNBA/Washington Board of Directors roster for the 2007-2008
year. The chapter board consists of four elected officers, the immediate
past president as an ex officio member, and as many members-at-large as
considered necessary to conduct the business of the chapter. Standing committees
are established by the board and include membership and programs committees.
Any chapter members who want to get more involved in membership, programs
or newsletter activities should contact Liddie Smith at
liddiewnba at comcast.net.
President: Elizabeth “Liddie” Smith
Raised on Sesame Street, Liddie has been a lover of words and books from a very
young age. She is currently the manager of publications for the Casualty Actuarial
Society. She holds a master’s degree in communication from American University
and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma. Liddie joined
the board in 2005 as membership chair.
E-mail: Liddie at comcast.net
Vice-President: NC Weil
NC Weil knew she would be a writer at the age of seven. Since then she has devoted her energies to studying language(+s)-not only English but Spanish, Latin, Russian and un peu de Français-and acquiring life experience. She's put over 10,000 solo miles on her thumb, and presently lives surrounded by Takoma Park in Silver Spring, Maryland with her April Fool husband. She's written several novels but hasn't broken into print up to now (agent, please call), is program co-chair of the Women's National Book Association (her grown sons were surprised to discover she's in the WNBA), and plays a mean game of Scrabble.
Email: ncweil at patriot.net
Secretary: Emily Sachs Marchand
A native of Pennsylvania, Emily earned a BA in Literature from West Chester
University in West Chester, PA, and then a Masters in Publishing degree
from Pace University in New York in spring 2005. A recent Washington, DC, transplant, Emily
works for a magazine, Guide to Retirement Living, published by
for Greater Washington Publishing in Vienna, VA. Emily first contacted
WNBA-DC while still in New York and joined in fall 2005.
E-mail: easachs at excite.com
Treasurer: Claire Emory
Unable to choose between words and numbers, Claire has worked with both.
After a decade as a technical writer and editor with the Department of
Agriculture, she earned an MBA and became a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Now president of CME Financial Advising, she will be providing independent
fee-based financial planning for individual clients. A longtime
member of WNBA, she became treasurer in summer 2001.
E-mail: claire.emory at verizon.net
Past President: Carla Danziger
A former award-winning freelance writer in New Jersey, former writer/editor
and communications manager for a small Washington, DC, nonprofit, and now
former WNBA chapter president, 2004-2006, Carla looks forward to continuing
on the board. She also plans to return to full-time writing, once again
involving her Scandinavian background. She published Hidden Falls,
a suspense novel set in Norway, in 2004. Carla served on the board
as program chair 2001 to 2003 and member-at-large 2003-2004.
E-mail: cdanziger
at verizon.net
Membership Chair: Christine Hines
Email: hineysfile at aol dot com
Signature Managing Editor: Judy Orvos Although Judy has been a resident of DC for 14 years, she's only recently stopped working in-and commuting to-NJ. Formerly editor of an ob/gyn journal in the Garden State, she's now a communications director supporting USAID's Bureau for Global Health. Judy previously served as an At-Large Member of WNBA/Washington's Board and welcomes contributions for her new “baby”-Signature. .
Email: orvosj at aim.com
Program Co-Chair: NC Weil
NC Weil knew she would be a writer at the age of seven. Since then she has devoted her energies to studying language(+s)-not only English but Spanish, Latin, Russian and un peu de Français-and acquiring life experience. She's put over 10,000 solo miles on her thumb, and presently lives surrounded by Takoma Park in Silver Spring, Maryland with her April Fool husband. She's written several novels but hasn't broken into print up to now (agent, please call), is program co-chair of the Women's National Book Association (her grown sons were surprised to discover she's in the WNBA), and plays a mean game of Scrabble.
Email: ncweil at patriot.net
Program Co-Chair: Anne Levy
Anne Levy is a fiction and short story writer as well as a lawyer. She graciously agreed to co-chair programs with NC Weil starting in 2007. Email: AnneSLevy at aol.com
Literary Map Chair/Publicity Chair: Susan Westrate
Sue is both a devoted reader and a designer of technical and medical books who has several years of association book-publishing experience. She held the position
of program chair from 2003 to 2004 before moving into the Literary Map and Publicity
chair positions.
E-mail:
WestrateSwnba at aol.com
Literacy/Service Chair: OPEN
This position is open to anyone with a desire to promote literacy under the umbrella of WNBA. With the aid of the board, the Literacy Chair will seek out partnerships and develop programs to promote literacy. The chair will be the WNBA representative to other organizations involved in promoting literacy such as the Library of Congress, The Reading Connection, and Reach Out and Read to name a few. Contact Liddie Smith (liddie at Comcast.net) for more information.
Member-At-Large: Elizabeth Brewer (Also
designer for Signature)
Member-At-Large/Bookwoman Chapter Correspondent: Carolinda
Hales With a somewhat checkered academic career and a bit of floundering after graduate school, Carolinda Hales was lucky that someone else figured out that she is a natural-born editor and offered her a job using that ability! An education in languages and literature had not opened up the sciences and medicine to her, but most of her professional editing work has been in those fields. It was upon returning to Washington after many years in Charlottesville, where she had gone for graduate school, that Carolinda was delighted to discover WNBA-the first program she remembers featured the then-editor of The Washington Post's Book World section-and the rest is history. A past WNBA/Washington board member and treasurer, Carolinda returned to the chapter board in the fall of 2005 as the managing editor of Signature.
E-mail: carolindah at earthlink.net
WNBA Washington Chapter Mailing
Address
P.O. Box 696
Arlington, VA 22216
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