Politics

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Wonder Woman in Business, Catherine Lew

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Catherine Lew

Co-Founder & Principal Consultant

THE LEW EDWARDS GROUP


 CATHERINE LEW 

Co-Founder & Principal Consultant 

The Lew Edwards Group 

With over three decades of experience in community organizing and politics, Catherine Lew is known as one of California's most successful advocates for local government and women running for office. A first-generation California native, she was raised in the Salinas Valley by parents who immigrated to this country to seek a better life. 

A California attorney and veteran of over 700 political campaigns, Catherine was a 10-year trainer for EMERGE – an organization working to elect more Democratic women to office. She has worked on behalf of political clients who include Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the California Democratic Party, California Teachers Association, California Nurses Association, children's organizations, Sierra Club, and scores of local elected women. She was Deputy Political Director of the Northern California Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992. 

Catherine’s firm --The Lew Edwards Group—is a nationally recognized, award-winning company founded 23 years ago. LEG has enacted $38.5 Billion in California revenue measures at a 95% win rate to repair classrooms and improve libraries, parks, and public hospitals consistent with the firm’s philosophy to empower voters to protect their local quality of lives. 

A graduate of UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco School of Law, Catherine and her spouse live in Oakland, California. When she is not busy during an election cycle, she can be found at a barn with her American Quarter Horse Dakota. 

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Enjoy the podcast.

Catherine Lew

Contact Catherine:

Email: catherine@lewedwardsgroup.com

Twitter:  @catherinevlew

FB/LI/Instagram:  Catherine Lew

URL:  www.lewedwardsgroup.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Michelle Wimes

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Michelle Wimes

Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer

Michelle P. Wimes serves as the Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms.  In her role, Michelle leads the firm’s efforts to attract, develop, retain, promote and advance a diverse group of attorneys across the firm’s national platform of 53 offices in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.  Additionally, Michelle leads the firm’s attorney training and professional development efforts.  She is based in Ogletree Deakins’ Kansas City office.

Michelle has extensive experience in delivering strategic leadership, client development, and talent management programming.  She is deft at implementing change management strategies necessary for comprehensive and effective diversity and inclusion and professional development initiatives and programming.  Previously, Michelle practiced law for 14 years where she handled all aspects of employment litigation while serving as an equity partner at a Kansas City-based firm.  She focused on matters involving employment discrimination, harassment, and civil rights issues while representing clients before the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as local, state and federal courts.

Later, Michelle spent four years on the senior management team of a premier Am Law 100 law firm as their Director of Strategic Initiatives, spearheading diversity and inclusion strategies and programming for lawyers across nine offices in the United States and Europe.

Prior to a career in law, Michelle was an elementary and middle school teacher in Kansas City.  She received a B.A. from the University of Missouri and performed graduate work at the University of Seville in Spain and undergraduate work at the University of Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico.  Due to her studies and her extensive legal work in Latin America, she is fluent in Spanish.  Michelle earned her law degree, with trial advocacy honors, from Tulane Law School.  She is the proud wife of federal district court judge Brian C. Wimes and the mother of three daughters, Sydney, Gabrielle, and Saige.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Michelle Wimes

Connect with Michelle

LinkedIn; https: in/michellepattersonwimes

E: michelle.wimes@ogletree.com

P: (816) 410-1801‬

4520 Main Street

Suite 400

Kansas City MO 64111


 

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Wonder Woman in Business, Judy Lloyd

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Judy Lloyd

About Judy…

Judy Lloyd is a connector who has a 35-year career in government, business and politics. She has owned her own business Altamont Strategies for 11 years, where she manages external affairs, stakeholder advocacy, fundraising and development campaigns. She also works part-time as a senior district representative for State Senator Steve Glazer, handling state and local government relations as well as serving as an informal advisor on innovation and business issues.

In Judy’s Own Words…

I’ve been especially blessed with the talent to connect, motivate and thrive in highly charged environments that demand attention to detail. My husband says my resume should be just three words: Gets Stuff Done.

I enjoy connecting with new people and believe good things happen when citizens and community leaders converge to create pragmatic solutions that are smart for business, good for the environment and help communities thrive.

My interest in public service and political campaigns began while working for my local Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives. From there, I was appointed by two U.S. Presidents to executive branch positions in the federal government, serving three Cabinet Members at the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Labor.

I’ve worked on fundraising, media, and grassroots mobilization for multiple presidential, congressional, state, county and local campaigns. I had the awesome opportunity of working in the U.S. Capitol alongside America's greatest veteran: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. We still stay in touch. I also have experience in state government, working in the California State Senate.

I'm proud of the work I've done as a public policy professional, private sector small businesswoman, strategic adviser and logistics lead, earning the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Exceptional Achievement Award and the San Francisco Business Times Woman of Distinction in Politics & Government Award. My passion for workplace flexibility and taking on challenging projects also earned me a chapter in the book, Women Who Paved the Way.

I'm grateful for the community I live in and volunteer for causes that impact police, firefighters, veterans and small businesses. I've also served on local government committees, providing advice on education, transportation and the environment.

I love baseball, football, hiking and cooking homemade Italian food paired with just the right wine. I try not to miss the chance to see a good baseball game or a country or classic rock show. 

Judy is in process of writing a book called “Petite Cucina – Recipes and Stories from a Small Italian Kitchen” that will honor my Mom, who passed from pancreatic cancer in 2011. She is also considering a book about my life in business and politics and challenges women face in the political arena. Judy just shot an interview for a documentary called “Failure to Success” that is in the process of filming and released in Fall 2020. [Once available, we will ass all of this to the blogcast.]

Contact Judy

Judy B. Lloyd

Altamont Strategies

Post Office Box 1803 | Danville | CA | 94526

925-847-0104 office | 925-989-0100 cell | @JudyBLloyd | in/judyblloyd94506

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Ally in Our Fight for Equity & More, Josh Becker

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Josh Becker

for CA Senate District 13

Josh Becker

Josh’s early career was defined by service both in El Salvador, where he spent six months working with refugees fleeing violence and in Washington DC where he served as press secretary for Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. After his stint in Washington Josh moved to California and enrolled in Stanford where he earned a joint MBA/JD.

Josh has released a comprehensive plan to combat climate change, by far the most comprehensive proposal of any candidate for this office. These proposals include; achieving carbon neutrality in state government agencies by 2030, paying farmers to sequester carbon, and a prize for breakthrough inventions in clean technology. He has earned the endorsements of the Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters.

Josh believes healthcare is a human right and that single-payer must be our north star. This is a generational challenge that we can and must meet.

Josh is a leader in education advocacy, having served on the San Mateo County Childcare partnership council and on the UC Merced board of trustees. He is also a public-school parent in Menlo Park.

This district has more than its share of pioneering non-profits, successful and influential businesses, and world-class educational institutions. Josh’s 30 years of leadership in these sectors, make him ideally suited to bring the best ideas from each of them to Government.

Josh will fight for smart, transit-oriented growth. Local control must include local responsibility for the region we all share. If we can't do a better job of addressing this issue, we face a lost generation of middle-class residents, communities without nurses, teachers, and first responders.

In 2016 Josh’s work on education, the environment, and income equality was recognized with a Jefferson Award for Public Service, earning him praise from Michelle Obama and CBS News.

Josh is a founder of the Full Circle Fund, an organization which has raised more than $10 million and has supported more than 50 organizations pursuing innovation in energy, education, affordable housing and tech training.

““As Californians, we must and will repudiate the Trump agenda. We do so by protecting the coastline, reducing climate change, protecting immigrants who help power our economy, ensuring everyone has affordable healthcare, defending courageous women who come forward to assert their dignity, passing meaningful gun control and helping to create affordable housing. As your State Senator, I will help make those changes and much more. Your support means so much to me.”

– Josh Becker for California State Senate, District 13”

Senate District 13

There are only 40 State Senators in California, each representing approximately 1 million people. The 13th district stretches from Sunnyvale to South San Francisco, covering most of Silicon Valley, it represents a tremendous chance to harness the wealth and power of this area to create meaningful change, for California, and the world.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Josh Becker

Connect with Josh:

Website:

Josh Becker for Senate 2020 - District 13

LinkedIn:

in/beckerjosh/

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Wonder Woman in Business, Chelsea Bonini

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Chelsea Bonini

KiskiLaw.com

Chelsea Bonini is a passionate advocate for education, housing, mental health awareness, disability rights and inclusive communities. Chelsea was a kindergarten and first grade teacher in the mid-90’s in the South San Francisco Unified School District and began practicing law in 2001. She now works both in-house and as outside general counsel with her firm, Kiski Law P.C., which she founded in 2010. Chelsea earned her dual B.S. in Elementary Education & Psychology from Russell Sage College in 1994, her J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law in 2001, where she was elected to serve as Editor in Chief of her law journal, and she was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2001.

Chelsea served as a School Board Trustee for the San Mateo-Foster City School District from 2013-2017. She ran a close race for City Council in San Mateo in 2017, but was not successful.

She was then appointed by the San Mateo County Board of Education to serve on the Personnel Commission in 2018, where she currently serves as Chair and also serves on the Board of the California School Personnel Commissioner’s Association for Northern California.

In 2018, Chelsea co-founded snkids.org, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation dedicated to achieving equality for all children and adults with disabilities by and through trainings and tools to increase participation at all levels of democracy, including elected roles, to promote advocacy for shared knowledge of rights & responsibilities, equal systems of opportunity and justice, high expectations & accountability for success, and inclusionary communities. Snkids.org is changing its name to “Not Without Us” in 2020 to emphasize its goal of ensuring that persons with disabilities and their allies have seats at the tables where decisions are made.

Chelsea was appointed to serve on the San Mateo County Commission on Disabilities in 2019, where she currently serves as Chair of the Youth & Family Committee, and she is also an active member of the Disabilities Caucus of the California Democratic Party. Chelsea has been an elected Delegate to the California Democratic Party for Assembly District 22 since 2015, as the elected AD22 Executive Board Representative since 2017, most recently reelected to another term for both positions in 2019 to serve through 2020.

Chelsea has also served on the Executive Board and as Secretary of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition, the largest and oldest Democratic Club in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, since 2018, and she was appointed as a District 2 Alternate for the San Mateo County Democratic Central Committee in 2019, where she also serves as the Committee’s Clubs Liaison and as a member of the Bylaws Committee.

Chelsea grew up in Tahoe and San Francisco, and now lives in San Mateo with her husband and two sons (in middle & high school). She spends a lot of time watching her boys play basketball and baseball, and she has and continues to serve in a number of community leadership and volunteer capacities. Chelsea is also currently a candidate for the San Mateo County Board of Education, as the Board’s Area 4 Trustee. Her campaign is centered upon the notion that community allies and collaborative practices are essential components of school success – that we are Much Better Together. Chelsea hopes to win this seat on the Board of Education in the upcoming November 2020 Countywide election, challenging a longtime incumbent.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Chelsea Bonini

Contact Chelsea:

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chelsea@kiskilaw.com

www.kiskilaw.com

Ph. 415.531.0508

1025 Alameda de las Pulgas, Suite 112

Belmont, CA 94002

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Wonder Woman in Business, Charmaine Caccioppi

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Charmaine Caccioppi

United Way of Southeast Louisiana

Charmaine Caccioppi is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, United Way of Southeast Louisiana. Charmaine serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Way of Southeast Louisiana and oversees United Way’s Governmental Relations and Community Impact departments. She is responsible for the development and implementation of the government relations strategies related to United Way’s three goal areas, including education, income and health, through the development of relationships with key internal and external constituents.

From 2005 to 2013 Mrs. Caccioppi served as the first President of the Louisiana Association of United Ways (LAUW). During her tenure as President of LAUW she partnered with the Louisiana Association of Non-Profits to publish “Community Solutions” which provided evidence-based policy research on how to combat long term systemic poverty. She established a relationship with The George Rodrigue Foundation allowing $1 million in funding to be secured for United Ways statewide. She also assisted with securing funding for The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts (GRFA), an Art Emerging Therapy for Children A+ School Education Curriculum to help children in trauma after Hurricane Isaac. Her many other accomplishments, include, but are not limited to, securing a $90,000 United Way Worldwide grant for the purpose of establishing a United Ways of the Gulf Coast and championing state legislation that ensured High Quality Childcare Standards, School Readiness Tax Credits, the establishment of the Child Poverty Prevention Council and the first refundable Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the South.

Charmaine advocated for the successful historical passage of Domestic Violence bills signed into Louisiana law aimed at stopping domestic abuse and in 2016 is featured in the award winning Five Awake –Domestic Violence documentary film. Historical passage of domestic violence bills was made again in 2017 and in 2018 including gun divesture!

Charmaine was inducted into the Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame in 2014. She received the Libby Milton Champion for Children Award in 2016 and Crimestoppers’ George Loker Community Service Award in 2017. She currently serves as Chair of the Louisiana Women’s Policy & Research Commission, chair of Education’s Next Horizon, and as a board member for the Bureau of Governmental Research, Louisiana Budget Project, and New Orleans Family Justice Center.

During her 20 years of service with the United States Senate, Mrs. Caccioppi served Senators J. Bennett Johnston then Mary Landrieu, working on major economic development projects throughout Louisiana and Nationwide, including: transportation infrastructure development for ports, airport, highways and railroads; defense and university research projects; flood control and hurricane protection projects; natural resources research; major federal procurement for several federal agencies.

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Enjoy the podcast.

Charmaine Caccioppi

Contact Charmaine:

Charmaine Caccioppi

Executive Vice President and COO

United Way of Southeast Louisiana

2515 Canal Street  |  New Orleans, LA 70119

ph: 504.827.6823  |  cell:  504.669.8529  |  fax: 504.827.6864  |  charmainec@unitedwaysela.org 

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