Conference Speakers
Featuring:
Becky Anderson*, MEd; Sarah Glenn*, IBCLC; Kay Hoover*, MEd, IBCLC, FILCA; Dottie Schell, BS, RN, CLC; Elizabeth Shotwell*, MEd; Ruth Solomon*, IBCLC
Becky Anderson* |
Peggy Moran* |
Speaker Bios
Rebecca Anderson, MEd, has been a Leader with the Danville Group since 2012 and together with her husband Baker has five children ages 14 to 26. Rebecca is a senior nursing student and in her free time enjoys unearthing women's stories. Last fall, she received the James L. Sellers Memorial Award for her article on turn-of-the-century midwives of Lincoln, Nebraska. The award is given by the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation for the best article published the previous year in Nebraska History.
Patty Angstadt
Barbara Arnone
Marjorie Cottrell
Sarah Glenn, IBCLC, has, for the last 25 years, worked with mothers and babies from the prenatal period to many years postpartum as a doula, LLL Leader, IBCLC, and teacher. In the past 4 years she has worked primarily in a hospital setting.
Liz Gliot
Kay Hoover, MEd, IBCLC, FILCA, and husband, Charlie are the parents of three sons and the proud grandparents of three grandsons. Kay has been an LLL Leader for 44 years. Kay has worked as a private practice lactation consultant, a hospital lactation consultant, the lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, for The Center for Childhood Obesity Research at The Pennsylvania State University, and for the Pennsylvania Department of Health. She has presented workshops at national and international conferences and is a co-author of The Breastfeeding Atlas. Kay currently works at Riddle Hospital in Media, PA as their lactation consultant.
Shelly Karver, and husband Adrian are parents to two boys, eight and eleven. Shelly was trained as an event planner and now splits her time between her LLL work , Cub Scouts, Little League baseball, and crafting.
Eliza Magland
Andy Mehrotra is a former child and family therapist and current mother, cook, gardener, and racquetball player. She has two daughters—Kareena, 13, and Maya, 16, and one lovely husband, Devan.
Devon Miller
Jennifer Moquin has been a Leader for 16 years and has been doing online work for LLL for just a bit longer than that. She is the tired mother of two wonderful children and spends the majority of her free time being nerdy in some way.
Peggy Moran has been involved with LLL since her very first LLL meeting in September 1966 when she happily paid a total of $3 which included payment for dues AND the blue "manual" The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding! When Kristina, her third child was born (Kristina is now also a Leader), Peggy began her journey toward leadership. Almost 14 years ago she became an Associate in the Leader Accreditation Department and thoroughly enjoys working with the future Leaders of LLL!
Bobbie North has been a member of LLL for 18 years and a Leader for the past 13 years. She has experience working in Continuing Education, Publications, and is currently serving in the Leader Department. She and her husband enjoy a quiet life in Lancaster with their three children.
Kristina Pasquale
Judy Polley has been a Leader for 36 years, leading in NJ her first year and since then in Chester County PA. Chuck and Judy have been married for over 40 years and have two children, Jennifer and Chris, two daughters-in-law, Rose and Stephanie, and an adorable three-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter, Katie. She enjoys working with local LLL Groups and LLL of Eastern PA.
Ben Ramirez
Dottie Schell, BS, RN, CLC, is a public health nurse. Dottie has spent her entire career working in maternal child health and has long been an advocate for children and their families. She works for the PA Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (PAAAP) as the Program Director for Breastfeeding Education, Support and the PA Premie Network.
Elizabeth Shotwell, MEd, is first and foremost the mother of three energetic sons, spanning three different development stages and ages (toddler, grade-schooler, adolescent). When she is not enjoying her time wrangling her three boys, she teaches high school social studies at a very small cyber-charter school and is in the final stages of her doctoral coursework. Elizabeth’s research interests include the impact of attachment styles on brain development, understanding how children learn. She is in the beginning stages of a research study focused on the impact of outdoor education in schools.
Carol Smith is the mother of five, and has been involved with LLL for 35 years. She enjoys working with Leader Applicants and seeing their enthusiasm for breastfeeding and mothering.
Marah Sollenberger IBCLC, is the mother of five children and was inspired to help other mothers in their breastfeeding journeys by the support she received in the early days of breastfeeding her oldest child. Aside from breastfeeding, Marah is passionate about her family, photography, babywearing, gardening, CrossFit, and sewing.
Ruth Solomon, IBCLC
Ginny Wilkinson