Board of Directors
Margo Vickers (YWP Board Chair)
Margot Vickers currently serves on the senior financial
management team at Howard University. Prior to joining Howard, Margo worked
for the Government of the District of Columbia in several capacities and as a
consultant with a non-profit environmental firm.
Margo is a graduate of
Purchase College in NY with a Master's in Economics from the University of
Maryland. She is a
member of the NAACP and the National Association for College and University Business
Officers. She also serves on the board and is treasurer of the Young
Playwrights' Theater, a six-year-old non-profit organization that teaches
young people how to write plays.
Lynn
Parseghian
Lynn
Parseghian is an attorney at Crowell & Moring LLP, specializing in complex
litigation. Lynn has been active in advancing the rights of women and
girls. She has provided pro bono legal counsel to the National Women's
Law Center and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She also
represents the Corcoran Gallery of Art/College of Art & Design. Lynn
received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. from
the University of Pennsylvania.
Amy
Kincaid
Amy
Kinkaid is founder
and principal consultant for Change Matters: Strategic Support for Growing
Organizations where she provides technical assistance to nonprofit directors
and boards, specializing in fund-raising, management, and capacity-building,
board training, and transition. Before starting Change matters, Amy served as
the executive director for ACCESS: Networking in the Public Interest, a
national clearinghouse on careers in the non-profit sector.
Previously,
Amy served as an Eisenhower Fellow in Non-Profit Management in Prague, Czech
Republic, as development director for the International Research &
Exchanges Board, and as a program officer for the International Foundation.
Amy received her BA in political science from the George Washington University
and also studied journalism at the University of Kansas. She is a member of
the Independent Sector Emerging Leaders Committee, a founding Board Members of
VOICE International.
April
Copes
April
Copes is a teacher
and community service liaison at Cardozo Senior High School in Washington, DC.
As a teacher, April focuses on a range of subjects including multicultural
literature, public speaking, US history, geography, and critical reading. As
community liaison she arranges student career placements, coordinates
workshops, seminars, luncheons, ceremonies and other events.
She
also builds
relationships with community organizations and government agencies. As
scholarship chairperson April advises groups and individuals on preparing
scholarship applications, manages scholarship financial accounts, and serves
as a liaison for colleges and universities. April received a Masters of
Education in Reading from Howard University and a BS in speech communication
from Syracuse University.
Sheila R. Strain, LICSW
Sheila
R. Strain is a Sales
Associate with RE/MAX Allegiance, as well as Division Director for United
Planning Organization in DC. As a board member, Ms. Strain supports the work
of YWP. Ms. Strain received her BS degree from the University of Maryland,
College Park, and went on to earn a Masters in Social Work at Howard
University in 1998. She received her Real Estate certification in 2004 with
the University of Long and Foster.
Her
extensive community involvement includes leadership roles on several councils
and community organizations in DC, including Community Resource Coordinator
with the People Involvement Corporation; a Project Coordinator with George
Washington University; as well as Kids House Coordinator with the Urban Family
Institute. More recently, she served as Assistant Director with the North
Capital Collaborative, and Executive Director of the Northwest Church Family
Network, where she served for five years.
Nadia
Moritz is
the founding executive director of the YWP.
