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

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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