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