Feminets

League of Women Voters

Women’s March Partner

Founded: 1920 (Women’s Suffragette Convention)

Founder: Carrie Chapman Catt

Website: http://www.lwv.org/

Location:

1730 M Street NW, Suite 1000,

Washington, DC 20036-4508

Phone: 202-429-1965

Fax: 202-429-0854

Agenda:

• Supports taxpayer­funded abortion­on­demand
• Supports “motor­voter” registration, which allows anyone with a driver’s license to become a voter, regardless of citizenship status
• Supports gun control, tax hikes, and socialized medicine

Funder:

LWV is heavily funded by the American Express Foundation, the AT&T Foundation, the Bauman Family Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, the Open Society Institute of George Soros, the Sara Lee Foundation, the Target Foundation, the Verizon Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, and others.

2008 – 2016 federal grant: $1,589,720

Key People:

• Chris CarsonPresident
• Karen NicholsonVice President
• Toni ZimmerSecretary
• Henrietta SaundersTreasurer

Board:

• Maribel Balbin
• Amy Hjerstedt
• Kim Lauth
• Jessica Lowe-Minor
• Brenda Rogers
• Jessica Rohloff
• Deborah Turner

Staff:

• Wylecia Wiggs Harris: Chief Executive Officer
• Anisa Tootla: Chief Operating Officer
• Kate Kennedy: Chief Development Officer
• Sarah Courtney: Senior Director of Communications & Digital Strategy
• Lloyd Leonard: Senior Director of Advocacy
• Kelly McFarland: Senior Director of Governance & Volunteer Strategy
• Jeanette Senecal: Senior Director of Elections