Chair
Andrea Gleaves
chair@winonline.org

In her day life, Andrea is the Training and Outreach Specialist with the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She assists in training facilitation, the creation of curriculum, and provides technical assistance to various victim service providers, government agencies and community-based organizations. Andrea attended the University of Southern California (Fight On!), studying history and political science. Andrea joined the Obama for America Campaign as a Field Organizer and Youth Vote Outreach Coordinator. She spent the final days of the ’08 campaign in Missouri. Her turf was affectionately referred to as Mid-MO-bama! Prior to serving as WIN’s Chair, she served as Political Director. She actively volunteers with the DC Rape Crisis Center (DCRCC) and the Rainbow Response Coalition. She loves watching reruns of The West Wing, baking the perfect brownie and she thinks nothing spells self-care like a bubble bath and a good book.

Vice Chair
Samantha Griffin
vicechair@winonline.org

Samantha currently works at the Black Women's Health Imperative in health programming. She is a DC metro native and her parents, both native Washingtonians and Terps, were very concerned when their only daughter became Blue Devil. All family ties have since been mended. She is a pro-choice preacher's kid, and a womanist who has been known to have musical tastes that lean towards the ʺratchetʺ. Samantha is a former aspiring opera diva, an amateur cook, and an enthusiastic gym rat who is considering joining Lindsay for the Nike Half Marathon. She does not spend enough time dancing or singing and spends too much time tweeting, gchatting and arguing with her afro, affectionately named after one of Nina Simone's Four Women, Peaches.

Finance Director
Victoria Kempter
finance@winonline.org

Victoria currently works at EMILY's List in the Finance/Compliance and HR departments. She came to DC in July 2011 after completing her B.S. at the University of Richmond. Orginially from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she loves green chile and mountains. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, trying out new restaurants, and playing the violin with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic.

Communications Director
Colleen Crinion
communications@winonline.org

Colleen is a progressive activist who has worked in the nonprofit sector and currently works in the labor movement. She has worked on independent expenditures and grassroots advocacy as well as online communications including social media and blogging. She earned her M.A. in Sociology from American University, focusing on gender, family, sexuality and the media. She has been published in the Virginian Pilot, Ms. Magazine, Fem 2pt0, and Spike the Water Cooler; and was a finalist in the Roe v. Wade blog contest for the National Council of Jewish Women. As a former Planned Parenthood employee, she writes primarily about women’s issues and reproductive justice. Colleen also serves on the board of the D.C. Abortion Fund, and recently won a Democracy for America Scholarship to attend the Netroots Nation Conference in June 2012. Originally from Michigan, she currently resides in Washington, DC where she can often be found tweeting while watching the Daily Show and Colbert Report, preferably with her dog.

Advisory Council Director
Atima Omara-Alwala
ac@winonline.org

Atima is a political strategist who has staffed seven political campaigns and other progressive causes with a focus on women’s rights and political empowerment. She has specifically worked in organizing, grassroots advocacy, and fundraising for non-profits, PACs, and political campaigns. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from George Mason University. She has been published in Women’s E-News and RH Reality Check on subjects relating to women’s health. Prior to her role as Advisory Council Director, Atima was the Professional Development Series Chair for the 2011-2012 WIN Leadership, focusing on professional and personal development programming for WIN members. She also served as co-chair of the Women of Color Network from 2008-2011WIN term, where she oversaw planning and implementation of programs related to issues unique to women of color. Outside of WIN, Atima is Vice President of the Young Democrats of America, the only national partisan organization, serving young people 18-36, and she serves on the boards of the DC Abortion Fund, and the Planned Parenthood of Metro Washington Action Fund.  When not dedicating her entire life to activism, Atima volunteers for a domestic violence shelter, is an avid reader, aspiring foodie, a movie geek, traveler to new places, and permanently attached to her ipod as a huge fan of all kinds of music.



Network Director
Amy Tannenbaum
networks@winonline.org

Amy works for the National Women's Law Center's Education and Employment program. She graduated from Hamilton College in 2010 with a degree in comparative literature and a whole lot more experience in progressive and feminist organizing than she expected! Amy has interned with CODEPINK Women for Peace and currently volunteers with VDay DC, the DC Rape Crisis Center, and Fem*Ex DC. For the past two years, Amy has co-chaired the Book Group and hopes to remain an active member. She also enjoys theatre and performance, knitting, Cuban salsa, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Events Director
Jessica Newman
events@winonline.org

Jessica is currently working as a political researcher for a consulting firm in DC. Previously she worked at First Focus as a Policy Fellow, working to advance sound social policies in the areas of child welfare, education, and child rights. Jessica is originally from Michigan, and attended James Madison College at Michigan State University (GO GREEN!), receiving her BA in Social Relations and Policy. She comes to DC from Saint Louis where she attended law school at Washington University. When not working to ensure victory for Democrats, Jessica can be found worshipping Rachel Maddow and decorating her fictional Manhattan pied a terre.



Membership Director
Lindsay Hicks
membership@winonline.org

Lindsay currently works at EMILY's List. She came to Washington, DC from Kansas with brief stops along the way in Missouri (school) and North Carolina (campaign). She has her Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis--and thus has a love for the Cardinals. She has currently picked up running and is training for the Marine Corps 10K in October with Team in Training through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She is (almost) signed up for the Disney Princess half marathon in Orlando in February and will sign up for the Women's Nike Half Marathon when it comes to DC in the Spring. In her free time she loves to bake and learn to cook. She is also the proud owner of a three year black lab mix who is great to cuddle with, especially after a rough day.


Development Director
Samaia Muhammad
development@winonline.org

Samaia recently joined Advancement Project as Major Gifts Officer. Her experience as a fundraiser and event planner contributes to her role as WIN Development Director. She is from Little Rock, AR and a graduate of the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Journalism. When not raising money, planning to raise money or sending thank you notes for money raised, Samaia enjoys dancing, exercising, travelling, and brunch-ing. She further displays her commitment to women's issues, racial and social justice through service as a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.


Political Director
Grace Kaissal
political@winonline.org

Raised by a single mother in the immigrant communities of both New York City and Miami, Grace has been an advocate for social justice since before she can even remember. Since graduating from Swarthmore College with a degree in Sociology and Anthropology and a concentration in Latin American Studies, she has worked with various community organizations on issues of reproductive justice, education, and labor as an organizer, researcher, and educator. In the summer of 2010, she conducted research on the educational and training opportunities for "agentes comunitarios da saude," a popular public health initiative in Brazil. Most recently, as a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Public Policy Fellow, she worked at the Department of Labor and the AFL-CIO, to work on excluded worker issues both domestically and internationally. Most recently, she worked at In The Public Interest, a project of Partnership for Working Families that focuses on fighting privatization and promoting responsible government practices. Grace first got involved with WIN after finding her first job on the WINList (it works!). Itching to find/build a community of strong, ambitious women of color in D.C., she decided to serve as Co-Chair of the Women of Color Network.  Responding to the need for catered leadership development for professional women of color in D.C., the Network launched  "Passion to Politics: Women of Color Political Leadership Bootcamp," WIN's first political leadership bootcamp geared at empowering women of color to take on and run for political leadership. In May of 2012, Grace was elected to serve as WIN's Political Director where she hopes to expand the political development and strength of WIN and its members. Grace is currently helping President Obama’s re-election efforts in the lovely state of Colorado as a Field Organizer for Organizing for America Colorado.


Technology Director
Keri Zolman
technology@winonline.org

After spending a year teaching English in France, Keri came to Washington, DC in fall 2009 as human rights education program coordinator with Amnesty International.  She is originally from Michigan and attended Michigan State University, where she earned two bachelor’s degrees that focused on comparative and electoral politics, women’s rights, and economics.  She currently works as a grants administrator for an international non-profit that promotes democratic capacity building abroad.  Building on her experience in assisting the start-up and implementation of a global project centered on the promotion of women’s leadership and active engagement in peace processes, Keri is interested in pursuing graduate work in the field of international conflict mediation.  During her free time, Keri enjoys volunteering with the Human Rights Campaign, traveling, reading memoirs, learning Hindi, and drawing.

Immediate Past Chair
Carla Reed
pastchair@winonline.org

Carla works in the human resources at America’s Promise Alliance in Washington, DC, a youth advocacy and education awareness non-profit founded by General Colin Powell. In this capacity, Carla focuses on recruitment, employee relations and employee benefits for the organization. She has a personal passion for women and youth advocacy, education and topics related to college access as well as diversity and inclusion. Acknowledging the importance of continuous professional development as a woman and young professional, Carla is also a graduate of WeLEAD, a bi-partisan leadership training program run by the Women & Politics Institute at American University.

Prior to her role as Chair, Carla was the Membership Director for the 2010-2011 Executive Committee, where she cultivated partnerships and executed a variety of membership and recruitment initiatives. She also served as co-chair of the Nonprofit Network during the 2009-2010 term, where she oversaw planning and implementation of programs related to service and women’s advocacy. Outside of WIN, Carla enjoys spending time with family and friends, photography, yoga, learning about natural hair care and skin care, modeling and traveling. She has previously traveled to the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Spain and Italy.

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Carla received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Spanish from Sewanee: The University of the South.