WALA STAFF AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

WALA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2008

PRESIDENT
Laura Possessky, Esq., nGura & Possessky

VICE PRESIDENT
Susan Jones, Esq., Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School
Nasar Abadey, Musician, SUPERNOVA
Janet Fries, Esq., Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Mary Brown, Director, Life Pieces to Masterpieces

TREASURER
Carl Settlemyer, Esq.

• Sherri N. Blount, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP
• Marjorie Conner, Esq., Marjorie K. Conner, P.L.L.C.
• Francine Friedman, Esq., Hunton & Williams
• Donald Graul., Executive Director, Washington Independent Writers
• Lucy Gebre-Egziabher, Filmmaker, Teret Productions
• Jason Hewitt., Vice President, Legal Affairs, Discovery Communications, LLC
• Kenneth M. Kaufman, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
• John D. Mason, Esq., Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata, LLP
• Brett Miller, Esq., Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
• Thomas F. O’Neil III, Esq., DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
• John C. Paul, Esq., Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garret & Dunner LLP
• Blaire Postman, President, Babyhead Entertainment
• Adam Proujansky, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP
• David Rhodes, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP
• Lionell Thomas, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
• Bill Wooby, Director, Millennium Arts Center
• Davey Yarborough, President/Artistic Director, The Washington Jazz Arts Institute
• Thomas Zutic, Esq.,  DLA Piper