Sara Jane Rose – President
Sara Jane Rose arrived in Oklahoma in 2005 from California with her husband, Oklahoma native and attorney Jay Shanker, and two young daughters. A 1982 graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island, her California careers included directing episodic series for network and cable television, and five years teaching martial arts and self defense to adults and children as part of a leading national studio chain. She has a black belt in Shaolin Kempo Karate. In 2010, she founded Sally’s List, a non-profit organization that recruits and trains progressive women to run for public office in Oklahoma. She has been an active fundraiser for Westminster School, Planned Parenthood of Oklahoma, and Harding Charter Preparatory High School.
Jeannie McDaniel – Vice President
Anne Roberts – Treasurer
Lynette Matthews – Secretary
Lynette and her husband Steve are recent transplants to Oklahoma — Steve’s ho
me state — after many years in Southern California. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she has experience in the non-profit and business worlds with a long-time emphasis on issues important to women and girls. Early in her career she played a key role in the Palo Alto Rape Study, one of the first to determine specific steps police departments could/should take to encourage reporting of sexual assault. She also served as the first Executive Director of the Independent Feature Project/West, a still-thriving Los Angeles non-profit created by and for independent filmmakers. She believes in the work of Women Lead OK — that through information, inspiration and mutual support we will help create a new generation of women leaders and catalysts for change.
Elizabeth Hunt – Board Member
Elizabeth Hunt, an accredited communications professional of more than twenty years, is the manager of mar
keting and communications for ITC Great Plains. She oversees ITC’s marketing, communications and branding efforts in the Southwest Power Pool footprint. Ms. Hunt possesses nearly 20 years of senior-level communications experience, including tenures with two Fortune 500 organizations and serving as the chief marketing and media relations officer for the City of Tulsa.
Active and engaged in the State of Oklahoma, Elizabeth is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma Class XXI, Leadership Tulsa, and the Tulsa Police Department’s Citizens’ Police Academy. She has participated in numerous civic, philanthropic and professional organizations related to the health and well-being of Oklahoma’s children and families as well as workforce development. She currently serves as a board member of Allied Arts, The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools Advisory Board, Women Lead Oklahoma and the Bob Wills Heritage Foundation. Her numerous honors include – Tulsa Regional Chamber’s “Woman in Business Champion,” The Journal Record’s “One of 50 Oklahoma Women Making a Difference,” The Journal Record’s “Achievers Under 40,” and the Tulsa Business Journal’s “40 under 40″. Elizabeth has also been honored by TulsaKids Magazine as one of “Twenty Tulsans Who Care about Children and Families” and by the Cystic Fibrosis Chapter as one of “Tulsa’s Twenty New Leaders.”