Overview
The executive committee meets regularly to handle the business of NC Women
United and allow the monthly membership meetings to be focused on programming
and information exchange.
Members
Jennifer Bumgarner - 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. - June, 2004
Veronica M. Butcher - 1st Vice President
Veronica Butcher is an Organizer with the NC Conservation Network a statewide
network of over 120 environmental, community and environmental justice organizations
focused on protecting North Carolina's environment and public health. She is a
graduate of Elon College with a degree in Public Administration and Political
Science. Ms. Butcher previously worked as the Education Coordinator for the NC
Coalition against Sexual Assault from 1999 until 2004. 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 Durham County, NC; and as Program Committee
Chair and Second Vice-President 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. - Nov. 2004
Natalie Fixmer - 2nd Vice President
Natalie Fixmer is the Field Coordinator for Planned Parenthood of Central North
Carolina where she is responsible for the design and implementation of grassroots
advocacy initiatives. She has been an active member of NC Women United since fall
of 2003, helping to plan and organize Women's Advocacy Day and Women's Agenda
Assemblies in both Durham and Cumberland counties.
Natalie earned a Master of Arts in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill
in May 2003, with a concentration in rhetorical theory and feminist/gender studies.
Her commitment to advancing women's rights and other progressive causes is reflected
in her work and volunteer experience that includes teaching an undergraduate communications/women's
studies course at UNC, working as the March for Women's Lives Coordinator for
PPCNC, organizing and mobilizing pro-choice voters during Election 2004 through
the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and volunteering for the NC Democratic Party.
She currently resides happily in Chapel Hill, amongst loving family, friends,
and an adorable cat named Zoey.
Nancy Shoemaker -- Secretary, Acting Treas.
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. - June, 2004
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