Overview
At its June 28 annual meeting, the interim Governance Committee (Arlene McKay,
Ian Palmquist) proposed the following candidates. There were no nominations from
the floor and these candidates were elected by acclamation.
- Executive Committee
- President: Paige Johnson
First VP: Jennifer Bumgarner
Second VP: Veronica Butcher
Treasurer: Becky Mock
Secretary: Nancy Shoemaker
- Governance Committee
- Arlene McKay
Ian Palmquist
Nancy Shoemaker
The Governance Committee will recruit two more members for the Governance Committee
who will be elected at the August 9 board meeting. The committee will then recruit
a slate of 10 Directors (4 Policy Directors and 6 Directors-at-Large) who will
be elected by the membership in the fall.
The Governance Committee provided the following information on the candidates.
Executive Committee
Paige Johnson -- President
Paige Johnson is Director of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Central
North Carolina where she is responsible lobbying, advocacy and media relations.
Paige has a long history of working to improve the lives of women and their families.
Her first job in North Carolina was with Child Care Services Association, an advocacy
organization committed to ensuring high quality, affordable child care. Before
moving to NC, Paige directed a family planning and prenatal clinic in New York
City's predominantly immigrant Lower East Side and served as a Peace Corps volunteer
in the Dominican Republic. Paige's husband is a kindergarten teacher in Durham
and they have two boys, Jacob and Elijah,ages 6 and 3. Paige currently holds the
position of President of NCWU and is committed to the continued growth and strengthening
of all member organizations.
Jennifer Bumgarner - 1st Vice President
Jennifer Bumgarner is currently the executive director of the NC Alliance of Economic
Justice, a coalition of six statewide organizations that works to ensure a living
income for all North Carolinians. She has served as a member of the NC Women United
Board of Directors for one year, and she also serves on the NCWU membership and
communications committees. Previously, she has worked in nonprofit administration,
in social services provision, and as a policy analyst. Jennifer has a BA in Politics
from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, and a MSc from the University
of Oxford in Oxford, England, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She serves
on the membership committee for the YWCA of the Greater Triangle, on the Wake
County Democratic Party's Precinct Organizing Committee, and is currently working
as volunteer coordinator for several political campaigns. Jennifer has a strong
interest in issues affecting women and their families and has worked with numerous
women's organizations in addition to NC Women United, including the Wake Forest
University Commission on the Status of Women and the Steering Committee of the
WFU Women's Studies program, the League of Women of Ukraine, the Forum on International
Feminisms, the YWCA, Democratic Women, and several local domestic violence and
sexual assault response programs. A native of Hickory, NC, Jennifer lives in Raleigh
with her very spoiled dogs, Oscar and Sasha.
Veronica M. Butcher - 2nd Vice President
Veronica Butcher is the Education Coordinator at the North Carolina Coalition
Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA), a statewide nonprofit coalition of rape crisis
centers and allied professionals. She has worked for NCCASA since 1999,
managing technical assistance and resource materials on sexual assault services,
mobilizing grassroots legislative reform efforts, and coordinating all media contacts.
Ms. Butcher’s is a graduate of Elon College with a degree in Public Administration
and Political Science. Her volunteer work includes grassroots activism training
for community organizations, serving as a trained victim advocate with Crossroads
Sexual Assault Center in Burlington, NC, co-coordinator of the Women’s Agenda
Assembly in Alamance County, NC, and as Program Committee Chair and Secretary
for North Carolina Women United. Ms. Butcher was nominated in 2003 for the
Virginia Allan Young Careerist Award of the Business and Professional Women of
North Carolina.
Becky Hurley Mock - Treasurer
Becky Hurley Mock is a founder of the Women's Resource Center in Alamance
County and currently serves as the Program Director. She coordinates New
Choices – Strategies for Success, a displaced homemakers program
where she assists women in making self-sufficiency plans to deal with personal
circumstances. She coordinated the first local Women's Agenda Assembly in Alamance
County in 1988, volunteered with N. C. Equity on numerous efforts over the next
twelve years to expand the number of local assemblies held across the state, and
dedicated many hours to the establishment of NC Women United in order to continue
Women’s Agenda Assemblies after NC Equity closed. The eighth Women’s
Agenda Assembly will be held in Alamance County on September 18th under
her leadership.
Becky is a grassroots activist and longtime advocate serving in many leadership
positions for many women’s social justice issues. She graduated from Alamance
Community College, attended University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Elon
College. She is a graduate of the Duke University Program in Nonprofit Management,
a Fellow of the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership and of Leadership
Alamance, an Alamance County Chamber of Commerce program. Becky was endorsed by
Lillian's List in 1998 in the N. C. House of Representatives race for District
25 (Alamance, Caswell, Orange and Rockingham Counties).
Nancy Shoemaker -- Secretary
Nancy Shoemaker has worked closely with the NCWU leadership since December
of 2001, primarily in the role of technical/web consultant. She was elected to
the board in July of 2003 and has served as chair of the communications committee.
Her academic background is in mathematics, and after receiving her Ph.D., she
taught for four years at the university level. She left academia for a career
in technical support, including four years running the computer network for a
nonprofit research center. She has a certificate in nonprofit management from
Duke University Continuing Education. She has been on the board of AAUW NC since
1998, serving as Technology Chair since 2000, and she served AAUW at the national
level with a two year term on its Program Development Committee. For the last
two years she has been a key participant in an effort of AAUW NC to rework its
board's practices and regenerate the 75-year old organization for this century.
She was a member of the NCWU ad hoc bylaws committee, and to that effort brought
a deep understanding of all-volunteer organizations, a passion for advancing the
interests of the member organizations, a preference for an open membership policy,
and a faith that those elected to the board will acknowledge and adjust when circumstances
change and commitments need to be renegotiated.
Governance Committee
Arlene McKay
Arlene was trained as a psychologist earning degrees from Miami, Penn State
and Northwestern University. She has pursued a career path taking her to many
areas of the world, including a decade in South America, where she founded and
directed a widely recognized family health training foundation. She subsequently
managed projects and acted as development director for public and private nonprofit
organizations in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina. Since making her home in
North Carolina eighteen years ago, she has been active in women’s organizations,
taking on leading roles in the movement toward pay equity and women’s health.
She was State President of Business and Professional Women (BPW) and was a founding
member of NC Women United. She has been on the governing board of Planned Parenthood
and is currently on the Board of Leadership America North Carolina. Among the
major activities in her organization roles she has focused on expanding membership
diversity, developing governance structure and building resource networks.
Ian Palmquist
For information on Ian, see the Equality
NC site.
Nancy Shoemaker
See above
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