2021-23 LWVOK BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

PRESIDENT 

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VICE-PRESIDENT

Stephanie Henson is a homemaker who has loved volunteering with the Girl Scouts, the YMCA, Oklahoma City's Church of the Servant, and Edmond Public Schools. She is currently working with Possibilities, Inc, a United Way Agency.  She is a former teacher and taught private school drama classes in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In Oklahoma, she taught speech/theatre and English courses in both rural and suburban school districts. She has a master’s degree in Human Environmental Science from the University of Central Oklahoma and is currently working on a PhD in Human Development and Family Studies. She loves reading, writing, running, and coffee drinking and she is currently vice-president, voter services chair and a member of the nominating committee for LWVOK.  She is grateful for the opportunity to work with the League of Women Voters.

SECRETARY

 Bridgette Fincher is a veteran K-12 teacher of many years, proud wife, and happy grandmother. Upon completion of her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Elementary Science in 2016, she currently is a tenured professor of Elementary Mathematics and Science Methods at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas.

TREASURER

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TRUSTEES

Melinda Bellatti is a lifelong educator currently serving as a full-time communication professor at Tulsa Community College. She volunteers with Learning Ally as a voice over narrator creating audio books for struggling readers and as TCC Faculty Association Secretary. She also has nonprofit management experience leading youth arts organizations in Oklahoma and Texas.

Carly Dunn is a Ph.D. Student at Oklahoma State University in the Human Development and Family Science Department as well as a Research Associate with the Center for Public Life; Center for Family Resilience at OSU-Tulsa; and American Indian Research Group. Prior to returning to school, Carly was a public health faculty member at Oklahoma State in Stillwater. With a background in public health, Carly is committed to addressing both the social and political determinants of health within historically marginalized, underserved, and under-resourced communities in order to improve quality of life and reduce the negative consequences of health disparities.

Joyce Collard is the Treasurer of the LWV Norman Board, has served on their Board for the past twenty-two years, and is starting her fourth term on the LWVOK Board. She volunteered on an application and receipt of a federal DHS Promoting Safe and Stable Families Grant for a coalition of neighborhood centers and was active in her non-mandatory neighborhood association for twenty-four years and past City of Norman committees. She retired as a long-time Administrative Assistant for two professional associations, both 501 (c) (3)s, relating to health and welfare, editing newsletters and other publications, accounting and payroll reports, making arrangements for annual conferences of 600+ attendees, and monitoring committees and volunteers. 

Kathleen Kastelic graduated from the University of Tulsa with an accounting degree, then spent the first eight years of her career as an auditor with one of the major public accounting firms. She held financial managerial positions after leaving public accounting and is recently retired from a 40-year career. She has served on the Friends of the Tulsa Libraries and The Tulsa Garden Center boards. Kathleen joined the LWV/MT board in 2010 as Treasurer, later serving as President. She joined the Oklahoma board as Treasurer in 2015.

Jan Largent grew up in Chelsea, OK and earned a BS in Special Education at OSU.  She taught in Ponca City and Broken Arrow.  She and her husband spent several years moving to different locations with his job.  They had a three-year assignment in Venezuela where she enjoyed volunteering at a local orphanage and where she also made lifelong friends.  She is a Stillwater League member and has served on the LWVOK board for three terms with two of those as board president. 

Mary Jane Lindaman has been a resident of Tulsa since 1976.  She retired in 2006 following a 22 year career with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma.  She was Manager of the Oklahoma Caring Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation while at Blue Cross and Blue Shield during her final years at Blue Cross and Blue Shield.   Mary Jane has been a member of the League of Women Voters since 2008.  She is a past Director of the Board of Directors for the League of Women Voters for Metropolitan Tulsa and a Trustee of the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma.  She has served as the Voter Services chair for both the Tulsa and Oklahoma Leagues, has chaired the Program Committee for the Tulsa League, facilitated the Water Study for the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma as well as the Focu$ on Education coalition project.  In the past she was involved in Junior Achievement, served on the Board of the Tulsa Immunization Coalition, was a member of the Tulsa Downtown Lions Club (past president and Chairman of the Board), is a member of All Souls Unitarian Church and has served on the Tulsa Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Survivors and as chair of the VIP (Voting Is Power) Coalition.  She received a B. A. degree from the University of Oklahoma in Speech Communication.  She enjoys playing bridge, traveling, and reading and creates photo videos as a hobby. 

Roxanne Logan grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, in the 60’s, I experienced family life typical of the era. My parents, both independent people, nurtured my independence too, by encouraging me to think for myself. When my husband passed in 2012 and my having retired after40 years of working in the accounting field, I was happily living a quiet life as a hermit --but soon grew tired and began seeking out like-minded people. After finding “my people” I became an officer in the County political party and the women’s branch of the party. Eventually I became the Deputy Treasurer for a candidate running for the Dist. 48 Representative. The political action passion I had possessed in the 60’s and 70’s was reignited. On March 12,2020 my phone rang and the offer of my dream job was on the other end. I am now the S.E. Regional Organizer for Oklahoma Policy Institute / TogetherOklahoma.

I am honored to be a LWVOK Board Member. I believe that change can happen when people work together toward a common goal, and I am laser focused on making Oklahoma the state we all deserve.

Abbey Richards is an experienced higher education attorney who has worked in the General Counsel's Office at The George Washington University for 16 years.  Her practice areas include non-profit governance, finance, tax, regulatory compliance, and transnational legal issues.  Additionally, she frequently works with university administrators and the OGC team on strategic thinking, complex problem solving, team building, and project management,.

Shailaja Marion has served the Tulsa League for the past three years as the Administrative Director, expanding her skills in volunteer management, social media marketing, graphic design, and fundraising. In her spare time, she has helped run a Japanese anime and culture convention which is now in its 13th year.