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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.

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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

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Carmen Mayo

President

 

Adrienne Heile

Vice President

 

Willa Michelle Terry, M.D.

Recording Secretary

 

Blair Washington, M.D.

Corresponding Secretary

 

Anena Metoyer

Treasurer

 

Leslie Walker-Harding, M.D.

Financial Secretary

 

Jeanette James, Ph.D.

Immediate Past President

MEMBERS

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El Freda Agboka

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Adrienne Y. Allen

 

Samantha Ashford

 

Cherry A. McGee Banks, Ed.D.

 

Kimberly Ann Bell, M.D.

 

Chelsia Berry, Ed.D.

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Alicia Boler-Davis

 

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. (1*)

 

Faye Rosalind Chess, J.D.

 

Roxanne Christian

 

Anita Johnson Connell, M.D. *

 

Tracy Davis

 

LaNesha DeBardelaben

 

Maya Dillard

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Leona Dotson

 

Patricia Dunston *

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Francisca Engmann

 

Juli E. Farris, J.D.

 

Kia C. Franklin, J.D.

 

Bonnie J. Glenn, J.D.

 

Robin S. Green *

 

Sonja Greene Hampton, Ed.D.*

 

Joanne Harrell

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Winona Hollins Hauge, MSW*

 

Mary Turner Henry (1*)

 

Wanda J. Herndon

 

Tracy M. Hilliard, Ph.D. 

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Gwendolyn H. Howard, J.D. *

 

Nicole Hudson, J.D.

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Rachel Issaka

 

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. (1*)

MEMBERS 

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Dana Kearney

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Jan R. Kendle

 

Sheila Edwards Lange, Ph.D. 

 

Ninevah Rudolph Lowery

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Norma J. McKinney *

 

Margaret Morris Martinez 

 

Susan L. Mask, J.D.

 

Carmen Mayo

 

Anena Metoyer

 

Tanzee Miller

 

Angela Mitchell-Corbin

 

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  (1*)

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Beth C. Long Salaguinto 

 

Keisha Scarlett, Ed.D.

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Nzinga Shaw

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Wilhelmenia Sims *

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Angela Poe Solomon

 

Lisa Motin Starke *

 

Nancy V. Stephens, J.D. 

 

Josephine Stratman Stokes (+1*)

 

Jovonia Taylor-Thibert

 

Willa Michelle Terry, M.D.

 

Liz A. Reynolds Thomas, Ph.D.* 

 

Linda Thompson-Black

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Lynne K. Varner 

 

Aimee E. Vaughan 

 

Leslie Walker-Harding, M.D.

 

Blair B. Washington, M.D.

 

Carol Ramsay Washington

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Membership Designations:

+ Chapter Charter Member

1 Platinum Status

* Alumna Member

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