Our Chapter
Greater Seattle Links, Incorporated
The Links, Incorporated is a volunteer service organization of concerned, committed, and talented women who, linked in friendship, enhance the quality of life in the larger community. The organization is primarily concerned with enriching, sustaining and ensuring the identities, culture and economic survival of African-Americans and persons of African descent.
To contribute to the formulation of a positive, productive, and culturally diverse society. The Links, Incorporated also focuses on education, cultural enrichment, health and wellness and civic involvement. Within the Greater Seattle area, our community service focuses on youth – with an emphasis on STEAM-related experiential learning, educational access and scholarship, and improving and uplifting the quality of life of African Americans and our broader communities.
ARTS
We collaborate with museums, symphonies, art councils, educational institutes, and corporations to support art programs that focus on artists of color.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Through education, health advocacy, and optimal utilization of health resources, we promote and facilitate programs that support the maintenance of good health and the elimination of chronic health disparities in communities of color.
NATIONAL TRENDS AND SERVICES
We create community programs that increase awareness of issues that affect the quality of life of African-Americans.
INTERNATIONAL TRENDS & SERVICES
We expand the global platform for programs designed and developed to serve the educational, health and cultural needs of people of African descent throughout the world.
SERVICES TO YOUTH
Through the recognition of academic excellence and the awarding of scholarships to middle school girls, we are focused on creating a culture of achievement among our youth.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Jeanette James
President
Phyllis Turner-Brim, J.D.
Vice President
Beth C. Long Salaguinto
Recording Secretary
Joanne Harrell
Corresponding Secretary
Sheila Edwards Lange, Ph.D.
Treasurer
Carol Brown
Financial Secretary
Mary E. Pugh
Immediate Past President
MEMBERS
Samantha Ashford
Cherry A. McGee Banks, Ed.D.
Gayle Colston Barge, Ed.D.
Aiko Bethea, J.D.
Carol Brown
Deryl J. Brown-Archie, J.D.
La Tasha Byers
Frances Carr (1*)
Lucile Carter-Perry *
Vivian Caver (1*)
Andrea M. Chatard
Patricia Chatard, Ph.D.*
Faye Rosalind Chess, J.D.
Iris Childress
Roxanne Christian
Anita Johnson Connell, M.D.*
Tracy Davis
LaNesha DeBardelaben
Maya Dillard
Patricia Dunston*
Juli E. Farris, J.D.
Kia C. Franklin, J.D.
Bonnie J. Glenn, J.D.
Robin S. Green
Terri Hackett, Ph.D.
Sonja Greene Hampton, Ed.D.*
Joanne Harrell
Mary Turner Henry (1*)
Wanda J. Herndon
Tracy M. Hilliard, Ph.D.
Winona Hollins Hauge, MSW
Gwendolyn H. Howard, J.D. *
Nicole Hudson, J.D.
Jeanette James
Beryl (Nina) Jennings, Ph.D., MFA
Jonelle M.C. Johnson
Lazelle S. Johnson (1*)
Janine M. Jones, Ph.D.
Leslie Diane Jones
Mona Lake Jones, Ed.D. *
MEMBERS
Jan R. Kendle
Sheila Edwards Lange, Ph.D.
Ninevah Rudolph Lowery
Margaret Morris Martinez
Susan L. Mask, J.D.
Carmen Mayo
Anena Metoyer
Norma J. McKinney *
Tanzee Miller
Angela Mitchell-Corbin
Gail N. Morgan, M.D.
Constance Leigh Proctor, J.D.
Mary E. Pugh
Deborah Purce, J.D.
Marcella Fleming Reed, J.D.
Constance Williams Rice, Ph.D. *
Lillian Lockett Robertson, M.D.
Sandra Kirk Roston *
Juana R. Royster, Ph.D.*
Ernestine Rutledge-Hester *
Beth C. Long Salaguinto
Wilhelmenia Sims *