Cee’ Cee’ Anderson, Vice President
Board Member of Fast Parole Juvenile Justice and CASA, Steering Committee member of the Coalition for the People’s Agenda, Chairwoman of WIN (Women in NAACP), and CEO of Women Changing the World, One Woman, One Child at a Time.
Stephanie Flowers, Board Co-Chair
Stephanie has 15 years of experience in building the capacity of grassroots organizers and assisting neighborhood organizations and residents through community change efforts, capacity building, and peer networking programs. She attended Atlanta Area Technical School and received her J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership certification from the University of Georgia, Troy State – Family Development Credential.
Maddy Frey, Board Co-Chair
After ten years working at the intersection of philanthropy and health equity evaluation, Maddy started a public health evaluation firm in Atlanta in 2018. She has pursued racial justice work and exploration, and is currently working with several clients around food security. She is an elite athlete who has fought for women in sports and in the boardrooms of America.
Marguerite Gaines
Marguerite Gaines was born and reared in Georgia, southeastern rural America. She is a humanitarian, activist and a believer in fighting for those who are voiceless, homeless, and cared-for-less. Carrying along her journey is a longtime advocate for women and children rights, health care navigation, and human rights for all people no matter who or where. Her hometown is Waynesboro in Burke County, Georgia. Burke County is known for the Georgia Power’s-Plant Vogtle Electric Generating Nuclear Plant. Growing up in Waynesboro not far from the billowing smoke of nuclear chimneys, she personally witnessed and encountered lack of access to healthcare, unjust health care, and systemic inequities in infrastructure, education, housing, and jobs.
Meagan Leggett
American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. She is from Jesup, southeastern Georgia. Her family and friends are affected by the closure of rural hospitals, school to prison pipeline, closure of voting precincts, debtor’s prisons, and the disposal of Coal Ash along the creek where 6 generations of her family have been baptized.
Betsy Rivard, Treasurer
Director of the United Nations Association Atlanta Chapter; serves on the Boards of the Chattooga Conservancy, Georgians for Gun Safety, and Nuclear Watch South. Also represents Georgia WAND on the National WAND Board.
Ben Spears, Secretary
Program Associate with The Carter Center’s Democracy Program. Former Program Director for Ultimate Peace in the Middle East, building bridges of friendship and understanding through sports and youth leadership development. Formerly served as Chair of the Board for the Kyle Pease Foundation.