Virginia NOW is lead by a team of dedicated volunteers. For information on joining the Virginia NOW leadership team, please contact Lisa Sales. You can reach out to any of our officers via the Contact Us page.
President: Lisa A. Sales
Lisa Sales has been a management and strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Global Defense Group for the past decade and continues to provide consulting services to a commercial corporation. She was awarded the...-
Vice President: Kobby Hoffman
Kobby Hoffman is a member of the Charlottesville NOW board and founder of both the Blue Ridge Abortion Fund and the Take Back the Night rally, march and vigil in Charlottesville. She is also a member of the National NOW board... -
Legislative Vice President: Tammie Miller Jennings
Tammie Miller Jennings is a wife, a daughter, a mom, a Meme, an author, an activist, animal lover of dogs and parrots, and an amateur genealogist. She cares deeply about the world we live in and wants to ensure all women... -
Communications Vice President: Prasidha Padmanabhan
Prasidha Padmanabhan is a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and the founder and president of the Women for Education, Advocacy, and Rights (WEAR) organization. As a woman and student... -
Membership Vice President: Sonia Ballinger
Sonia Ballinger is a wife of thirty-two years, a mother of three grown adult children, a mother-in-law, and a proud “Gam Gam” (grandmother) of two. She has been a Latina, feminist activist for years. When women received the call... -
Treasurer: Connie Cordovilla
Connie Cordovilla serves as the treasurer of Virginia NOW, Inc. She is the organization’s immediate past president. She also serves as the co-president of the Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues. As the Assistant Director of... -
PAC Coordinator: Patricia Blau Reuss
Pat Reuss arrived in Virginia in 1979 as the single mother of 3 sons then aged 8, 9 and 10 and has been a model for balancing work and family life. She is currently “semi-retired” and is serving as a policy advisor to the... -
Advocacy Task Force Coordinator: Marj Signer
Marj Signer has been an activist and leader of Virginia NOW since the mid-1990s when she became determined to fight back against oppressive abortion restrictions being imposed on the women of the state. Trained as a... -
Events, Outreach & Communications Coordinator: Shannon Fisher
Shannon Fisher has spent more than a decade providing leadership in the pursuit of equal rights for women in America. She is the host of Our Lives with Shannon Fisher on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network and among a... -
VLAP Committee Chair, Family Law & Education: Shanelle H. Jones
Shanelle H. Jones is the Committee Chair for the Virginia Law Audit Project Family Law & Education Committees and is responsible for establishing and regularly convening committees to identify misogyny and other forms of... -
VLAP Committee Chair, Women's Health: Mercedes Kirkland-Doyle
Mercedes Kirkland-Doyle is a disabled Army Veteran, mother of two amazing teenagers, humanitarian, diversity and inclusion game changer and advocate for women’s rights. She holds a Master of Science in Human Resources... -
VLAP Committee Chair, Health, Consumer & Economic Justice: Kaitlin Cooke
Kaitlin (Guarascio) Cooke is a seasoned (health care) public policy analyst with a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University. An early advocate for change, Ms. Cooke formerly served on the Senate Finance Committee,...
