Pat Coulter (Photos – LWVPA, womenscityclubofpasadena.com)
Pat Coulter is the first African-American to head the Pasadena Area League of Women Voters.
By News Desk
Coulter will preside over her first all-member meeting Sept. 5, 2019, with a program on “Do Elections Still Work” at The Women’s City Club of Pasadena.
She succeeds Dorothy Keane, professor emeritus at Cal State LA, as president of the League of Women Voters Pasadena Area. Acknowledging Keane’s accomplishment of increasing members by 25 percent with people of all ages, genders and ethnicity, Coulter said:
My hope is to foster even more diversity, equity and inclusion, education and action.
“She brings a vast wealth of experience in developing people and organizations to their full potential,” said Keane. “We are so fortunate to have someone with such an impressive record of improving communities.”
Pat Coulter
Coulter is former president and CEO of the Urban League of Philadelphia (13 years,) and the first woman to lead the 85-year-old affiliate. She also served on numerous commissions, nonprofit boards and task forces in Philadelphia and won scores of awards, including CBS News Radio Women’s Achievement Award. She also is in the Knoxville College Alumni Hall of Fame.
Coulter holds a bachelor of science in music education from Knoxville College, and a masters in education from the University of Louisville. She completed the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management and received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Peirce College in Philadelphia.
She moved to California in late 2014, and joined the League of Women Voters Pasadena Area in 2015. She’s senior adviser to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force of the California league as well as a member of the state league nominating committee.
Coulter served as founding chair of the immigration committee formed in 2017 and president elect in 2018.
Source: LWVPA
Wonderful! She will be amazing!