Board of Directors
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Susan Gobreski, LWV of Philadelphia
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Betsy Murray, LWV Member at Large
Vice President
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Stephanie Sun, LWV Central Delaware County
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Tressa Monkman, LWV Lancaster County
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Rochelle Kaplan, LWV Lehigh County
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Colleen Coonelly, LWV Radnor Township
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Jess Myers, LWV PA Capital Region
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Aanchalika Chauhan, LWV Radnor Township
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Dr. Joan Duvall-Flynn, LWV Central Delaware County
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Maggie Hartmann, LWV Monroe County
Staff
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Amy Widestrom, PhD (she/her)
Amy holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. and PhD from Syracuse University. She has also been the recipient of several awards, including the 2016 American Political Science Association’s Clarence Stone Scholar Award, a Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, and an American Political Association Congressional Fellowship in 2008-09, when she worked for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs as the nation worked to recover from the 2008 economic crisis.
Before joining the League, Amy was a faculty member at Arcadia University and Chair of the Department of Historical and Political Studies.
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Brianna Rybka (she/her)
Brianna graduated from Oregon State University in 2021 with a Master’s of Public Policy and a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Natural Resources, along with a B.S. in Political Science earned in 2017. Before joining the League, she was a Climate Action Organizer at NextGen America, where she cultivated partnerships, trained volunteers, and promoted voter registration drives.
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Jackie Roos (she/her)
Operations & Program Coordinator
Jackie Roos has a B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and a M.A. from Union Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Columbia University. After graduating, she spent a few years working at the Women’s Prison Association in New York City, before making the leap into the tech sector to support C-suite leaders and their teams.
Graduate Fellows
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Michael Brian Bach (he/his)
Michael Brian Bach is an MPA Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute. After graduating from Ohio State University in 2019, Michael spent 5 years with AmeriCorps' City Year program as both a corps member and an Impact Manager. He possesses leadership/management, data analysis, and communications experience. Michael is passionate about public service, democracy-building work, and achieving equal outcomes - not just equal opportunity.