Diane Russell was surprised by her recent honor as Most Valuable State Representative in 2011 given by The Nation magazine. “I didn’t believe it,” says Russell, a Democrat representing Portland’s Munjoy Hill neighborhood. “I was tagged in an article by a local blogger and thought ‘how nice of her to mention me.’ It wasn’t until I clicked further and further into the article that I realized that it was a national honor given by The Nation, and not just a mention by a Maine blogger.”
Anne Graham has been a nurse practitioner in pediatric health care for more than 25 years, the last 4 years in pediatric neurology. Anne owns a child health consultant business called Healthy Kids of Maine. For the past four years, Anne has been a member of the Governor’s Early Child Care and Education task force and the Invest Early committee.
Charlotte Warren currently serves as the Associate Director of the Maine Women's Lobby team. Her responsibilities include planning and conducting membership outreach and communications strategies for the organizations, along with managing efforts to recruit and retain new members and activists. Her experience includes over 10 years as a Mathematics adjunct faculty member as well as a Math / Science Learning Specialist at Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC), working to increase the success of first-generation and low-income students and students with disabilities.
Amy Cookson earned her BA in political science and minor in women’s studies from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. She spent a semester studying at Lancaster University in England and a semester interning for the publishing department of Ms. Magazine. She then attended graduate school at the UMass Amherst and graduated with a Masters Degree in Public Policy and administration. After two years as a budget analyst for the New York State Health Department, she returned to Maine to work as a field organizer for the HDCC. She blogs for the Women’s rights section of change.org under the pseudonym Aimee Sea.
Anne Sheldon joined the Maine Women’s Lobby and Policy Center December, 2009, as community organizer. While in college, Anne interned for us and worked on our work-family policy research and outreach, she is excited to be back working on similar issues. Anne came to us from the Maine People’s Alliance where she worked as a tax issues organizer as part of a community organizing fellowship. While at the Maine People’s Alliance, Anne worked on the no on TABOR II campaign and a campaign to maintain the federal estate tax where she worked to organize small farmers and business owners around issues of fair and progressive taxation. Anne graduated from Bates College in 2009 with a bachelor of arts in Philosophy, she wrote her senior thesis on feminism and political philosophy. Anne enjoys cooking and traveling and loves living in Portland.
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