Lisa King

President

Lisa holds an MBA in International Finance from The George Washington University and provides financial consulting for both the corporate and non-profit sector.

She has held finance positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, US Patent and Trademark Office, Fannie Mae and Lockheed Martin.

She was born in San Diego, CA in 1971 and moved to the Washington Metropolitan area in 1989. She is active in the historic preservation of her tiny section of Washington’s Shaw community called Hell’s Bottom, which includes such jewels as the Howard Theatre. In 2000, Lisa’s volunteer and entrepreneurial spirit contributed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation designating the Howard Theatre as the Nation’s 500th Treasure in their Save America’s Treasures program.  She has been a resident of Shaw since 1995, where she is renovating a Victorian row house with her partner Polly.

Robert Safro

Vice President

Robert is the President and owner of LOGOmotion Inc., an advertising specialty and promotional products company headquartered in Bethesda Maryland. In addition to his board work with One In Ten, Robert has served as President and Chair of the Board of PEN, The Metro DC LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and continues as an Emeritus member. After graduating from the Horace Mann Prep school in New York City, he went on to earn a BS-E from The Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania. Robert and his partner Joe Phillips reside in the District of Columbia.

Courtney Timberlake

Treasurer

Courtney is a Deputy Assistant Director at the Office of Management and Budget, helping to oversee an amazing staff of 60. Previously at OMB, she was the lead analyst overseeing policy and guidance to Federal agencies on budgeting for long-term credit losses. She has 17 years of experience in finance and budgeting, a master of public policy degree from the University of Southern California, and a B.A. in political science from Barnard College, Columbia University.  Her right-brained activities include a love of playing and watching sports, cooking (and eating), independent films, and writing.

Chloe Cooney

Secretary

Chloe Cooney is a Senior Associate with the Endeavor Group, a strategic philanthropy advising firm that works with high net worth individuals, corporations and foundations to design and implement their major philanthropic efforts. In this role she manages client projects with a focus on international development advocacy and implementation.

Prior to joining Endeavor, Chloe managed the Executive Office of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC), a coalition of over 200 companies with interest in supporting global health efforts. At GBC she coordinated the organization's strategic planning process, managed the activities of its Board of Directors and planned large-scale events. She began her career in the film industry when she managed operations and developed new projects for Peirce Pictures, the production company of filmmaker Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry, Stop Loss) in New York and Los Angeles.

Chloe graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University and was awarded a year-long leadership fellowship with New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. She speaks about philanthropy on panels and professional conferences, has presented at numerous academic conferences as an independent scholar focusing on U.S. LGBT history, and has served on the Executive Committee for the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

Brandon Fitzgerald

General Counsel

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Paul Hengesteg

Paul is the Manager of Meetings and Programs for the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). He is part of the team that is responsible for planning, promoting, and executing the signature events of the Chamber. Paul joined the Chamber after spending two seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington. As Company Manager, Paul was responsible for customer service efforts to the acting companies and other artists, including contracting, travel and housing arrangements, and hospitality.

Prior to moving to Washington in 2006, Paul lived in Indianapolis, IN, working for the Indiana Repertory Theatre as their Company Manager for seven years. It was in Indiana that Paul discovered his talents for meetings and events while working with the Waldo M. and Grace C. Bonderman Playwriting for Youth National Symposium, a workshop devoted to creating new plays for young people, and The New Harmony Project, whose signature event is a 2-week conference for writers for stage and screen held in the beautiful town of New Harmony, Indiana.

A native Iowan, Paul holds a BA from Simpson College with a double major in Theatre Arts and German. While at Simpson, Paul was fortunate to spend a semester living in Schorndorf, Germany, living with a fantastic host family and learning the German language, culture, sights, and of course, beer. He maintains a strong connection with the Simpson College Community as a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors.

As a past volunteer for One In Ten, he is happy to be part of the successes of the Walk the Red Carpet Gala and Reel Affirmations 17, and is thrilled to be on the Board of Directors for such an important part of the LGBT tapestry in the Washington, DC, community!

If Paul had a million dollars, he would travel and buy beachfront property (OK, maybe two million dollars). In reality, he enjoys spending time with friends over drinks and dinners, relaxing with a cup of coffee, watching movies, and learning about the antics of his 2-year-old niece Grace.

Melanie Levin

Melanie joins the One In Ten Board due in part to her love of cinema, her belief in film’s ability to deeply affect people and even change their minds about big issues and enrich their lives, and her desire to be involved in the local LGBT community. Melanie “came out” in her mid-40s (she is 50 but people tell her she doesn’t look it).  Reel Affirmations 15 in 2005 was a huge step for her as she had attended prior festivals as a “friend of gays,” but attending RA15 as an out VIP was an exclamation point in her overall process of proud self-awareness and open identification.

Melanie has a deep, though distant, background in marketing and sales, which explains her knack for getting her friends and family to join in the fun by donating to and volunteering for causes and organizations she believes in.  It is her hope that this skill will help One in Ten in meeting funding and volunteering goals.

She currently works as a Pediatric Radiologist at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington where she has been on staff since completing her Fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at CNMC in the Fall of 1995. Her position includes an appointment to George Washington University School of Medicine and Healthy Sciences as an Assistant Professor in Radiology and Pediatrics. Prior to her Fellowship, she was a Radiology Resident at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where she had attended medical school. She also holds a B.A. in Psychology, magna cum laude, from American University in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she sold everything from insurance door-to-door to hotel supplies for Ramada Inns to advertising pages for everything from trade publications to The Washington Post. All other information pertaining to her activities needs be dragged out of her over a nice glass of Chardonnay or a pineapple-infused vodka at Logan Tavern.

She is a mother of two girls: Jamie Rose, 20, a Junior at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and Talia, a ninth-grader at Georgetown Day School in Washington. (Melanie carries pictures of them at all times, so all you need do is ask.) She has many cohorts in the community of “mommies who used to be married to men,” so if anybody knows somebody who needs some guidance in finding their way through this transition, it is an issue near and dear to Melanie’s heart and she knows who to talk to.

When she isn’t working hard at doctoring or mentoring or mommying, or pouring her energies into One in Ten, she can be found road biking the local roads, spinning at U Street Results, kayaking the Potomac, hiking a nearby trail or skiing the mountains of Utah, Colorado or Montana. In fact, she can be hard to find in the winter months.

Brian Swilling

Brian is a Senior Business Consultant with Bearingpoint, Inc., where he provides Real Estate and Capital Assets solutions for government and large commercial clients. His areas of expertise include program management, asset management and resolution, business development and process improvement, client management, compliance and regulatory support, customer services improvement, financial management, and business and technical writing.

Mike DeFlavia

Michael J. DeFlavia has held direct mail production and fundraising strategy positions in both the non-profit and commercial sectors since 1998.

After holding several production positions in the Philadelphia area, including working on national accounts like Home Depot and Saks, as well as a stint at Philadelphia magazine, Mike joined National Trust for Historic Preservation (in Washington, DC) as a Production Manager. Excelling in that position by growing many programs while reducing costs, tackling anything that was thrown at him, and displaying organization and leadership qualities, he was quickly promoted to Associate Director of Special Appeals When he left after almost six-and-a-half years as he was responsible for a variety of programs and a multi-million dollar budget.

In January of 2008 Mike joined the team at Lautman Maska Neill & Company (a direct marketing consulting firm) as the Production Manager, where he oversees print production for a number of clients including New York Restoration Project, Northern Westchester Hospital Foundation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, among others.

Mike is a donor to and volunteer for various local and national organizations and also sits on the Board of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington. Mike graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA having earned a B.A. in Communication with a Public Relations concentration, and minored in Business Administration.

Rick Rose

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