ALA FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Ann Fournier of Berkley, MA., is a retired Special Education teacher with more than 35 years' experience. She retired as a call firefighter paramedic with the rank of Captain. She has spent several years in foreign countries as a missionary. Ann joined the American Legion Auxiliary through her brothers Dwight and James, US Army veterans. She has been an ALA member for 37 years, holding numerous leadership positions at the unit and national levels. She brings with her over 30 years of nonprofit board experience.
Anne Parker, of Ocala, Fl., has been an ALA member for 13 years and held numerous leadership positions at the unit, department, and national levels including 2014-2015 Department of South Carolina president. Parker has spent much of her career as an office manager and bookkeeper. She has also served on numerous volunteer positions including the North Strand Housing Shelter board of directors and on the National Finance Committee for Blue Star Mothers of America.
Carol Lindamood Harlow brings a unique breadth of experience to her American Legion Auxiliary Foundation Board Member role. Carol served for three years as National Director of the American Legion Auxiliary Washington, D.C. Office (2016 to 2019) and has 25+ years as a nonprofit executive in leading organizations providing support to servicemembers, veterans, and their family members. She served as executive director of the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, Deputy Campaign Executive Director of the Campaign to Build the National Museum of the Army Museum, Director of State Programs for the National World War II Memorial Campaign, and Chief Development and Communications Director for the Honor Flight Network. Carol currently raises funds for students to attend a national university in the northeast. The year 2023 marks Carol's 25th year in the American Legion Auxiliary. She is a PUFL with eligibility for membership through her grandfather's service during World War II. She currently serves in several positions within the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Virginia: National Security Committee Vice Chair, 2nd Vice President of District 17, and Vice President of Unit 176, Springfield, VA. Carol resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and her 13-year-old son. Both are members of the Sons of the American Legion.
Carrie Davenport, of Dunkirk, N.Y., serves as an educator and instructional coach in the New York public school system. She has been an American Legion Auxiliary member since 2004 and held multiple positions at the unit, county, department and national levels, including ALA Empire Girls State chair and ALA Girls Nation Vice Chair. She has served on multiple boards including the Children's Dream Factory of Central New York.
Job Titles:
- Member of the ALA Foundation Board
- Foundation President
Cathleen MacInnes, of Rochester, N.Y., has been an American Legion Auxiliary member for more than four decades. She has held numerous leadership positions at the unit, district, department, and national levels, including ALA Department of New York president. MacInnes has more than 25 years of managerial experience in healthcare financial services, with provider, payer, and contractor organizations. She has served on multiple boards, including 12 years on the Board of Visitors for the New York State Home for Veterans and the Wayne ARC Board of Directors and 30 years on the ALA Department of New York Executive Committee.
Job Titles:
- Director at IT Concepts
- Elected Director
Danielle Applegate is a Director at IT Concepts, an 8(a) service- disabled, veteran-owned small business. Prior to bringing her 25 years' experience to ITC, she led Veteran and Military Family Engagement at Oracle Cerner, and ran VetsFirst, an accredited Veteran Service Organization, with a stint in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Center for Women Veterans, where she created groundbreaking women veteran initiatives and nationwide VA programming.
A ninth-generation veteran with dual-military parents, Danielle served on active duty in the US Army and the National Guard; her duty included a tour in Korea. Due to service-connected injuries, she left active duty and earned an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a nonprofit executive certificate from Georgetown University. As a published military and veteran community subject matter expert and advocate, she gives her time and expertise widely, to include chairing the Board of Directors for the National Coalition of Homeless Veterans, and serving on the Board of Directors for PsychArmor Institute, Hesperus, the American Legion Auxiliary Foundation, the National Physical Activity Alliance, and Carry the Load. She lives in Northern Virginia where she is being raised by two delightful teens who enjoy volunteering as much as she does.
Job Titles:
- Member of the ALA Foundation Board
- Foundation Vice President
Diane Duscheck, of Whitefish Bay, Wis., joined the American Legion Auxiliary through her father, Roland Duscheck, a WWII veteran. Duscheck has held numerous leadership positions at the unit, district, department, and national levels, including 2017-2018 National President. She retired in June 2014 after a 34-year career teaching seventh and eighth grade science in both parochial and public schools. Duscheck was her school's union representative for 12 years. Besides her volunteerism with the American Legion Auxiliary, she also serves at the Mitchell Park Horticultural Domes and Easter Seals-Wisconsin.
Job Titles:
- Designated Director, ALA National Secretary
Kathy Daudistel of Bellevue, KY joined the American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) through father, Bill Kaelin, a Korean Veteran. She has held many national and department leadership positions, including 2021-2022 ALA National President. She retired after more than 33 years from a Fortune 500 company where she worked in the Information Technology division, to focus on the ALA. Kathy is currently serving as the ALA National Secretary. Always willing to take lend an ear and mentor others, she remains active in both the department and her unit as well as the local and department American Legion Riders.
Kaye Hirst, of Salisbury, N. C., has been an ALA member for 38 years and held numerous leadership positions at the unit, district, and division, in addition to serving as the ALA North Carolina Girls State Chair for 28 years. Hirst spent much of her career working with non-profit organizations, including spending 21 years as an Executive Director at the Rowan Museum. She has also served in numerous volunteer positions including currently serving as a chair on the Historic Organ Church Foundation and on the community advisory panel for the Azko-Nobel and Henkel Corporations.
Lauralee Gooch, of Los Angeles, Ca., has been an ALA member for 3 years, currently serving at the unit level as vice president, where she has helped her unit achieve financial independence. At the national level, Gooch currently serves as a member of the newly formed ALA Code of Ethical Conduct Special Committee. Gooch is a corporate lawyer, with more than 10 years of experience providing governance and fundraising advice to nonprofit and corporate boards.
Job Titles:
- Ex - Officio Director, ALA National President
Lisa Williamson is a proud 31-year honorary life member of C. Russell Huber Unit 57 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Lisa currently serves as ALA National Vice President. She has held national chairmanships in the following programs: Junior Activities, Community Service, Public Relations, Constitution & Bylaws, Legislative, Auxiliary Emergency Fund, Education, Children & Youth, and Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation. She previously served as Alaska's NEC during 2009-2010 and again 2017-2019, and Department of Alaska President in 2008-2009. Lisa has held most department offices and several chairmanships, and she continues to hold a department chairmanship. As well, she remains active in her unit, having held all offices, and continues to do so. She also is a member of The American Legion Riders and 8&40.
Job Titles:
- Designated Director, ALA National Treasurer
Marybeth Revoir, of Hickory Hills, Ill., is a lifelong member of the Auxiliary since joining at just 4 months old through the service of her father, Raymond Spano, a Korean War veteran. Revoir is the director of administration for the Peter Troost Monument Company of Hillside, Ill. Prior to coming to Peter Troost, she was vice president of Paschen Contractors Inc., a world-renowned, family-owned construction firm based in Chicago. Revoir has served in numerous leadership positions at the unit, district, department, and national levels including treasurer for the ALA Department of Illinois for 27 years and currently as National Treasurer.
Job Titles:
- Appointed Director, National Finance Committee
Nancy Brown-Park of Palm Desert, Calif., is a member of George Tadlock Unit 472 through the service of her father, Richard D. Brown, a WWII Army Air Corps veteran. She is also eligible through the service of her husband, Jim Park, a Navy Vietnam War veteran. Brown-Park has held numerous leadership positions in the organization, serving as ALA National President from 2013-2014. At the national level, she was also chairman of the following committees: Junior Activities, Public Relations, National Security, Constitution & Bylaws, Membership, Children & Youth and Veteran Affairs & Rehabilitation. Brown-Park actively volunteers in her community and with other philanthropic organizations.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- Elected Director
Sandra Rice is Senior Vice President, Outreach and Strategic Partnerships for Coqual, a non-profit global think tank based in New York City that focuses on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace. As SVP, she spearheads partnerships with Coqual's task force community comprised of more than 100 global organizations, nearly all Fortune 500 companies. Currently, she serves on boards for the Union County College Foundation in NJ; the Center for Great Expectations in NJ. She is a member of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, an Associate Member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. and member of American Legion Auxiliary George Padlock Unit in California. A former Girls Nation Senator, Rice has also been a featured speaker at the ALA Girls Nation conference in Washington, DC, and the ALA California Girls State Program. Rice served as Girls Nation Chairman, Western Region 2013-14.
Terri Wallace, of Bloomfield, N.Y., has served as an educator in New York for 31 years as a classroom teacher, professional development trainer/presenter, and administrator. She has served on the New York State Staff Development Council and Learning Forward New York Board of Directors for 25 years and the New York State Computer and Technology in Education Board of Directors for eight years. Terri joined the American Legion Auxiliary through her husband, Robert Wallace, a U.S. Army veteran. She has been an ALA member for 17 years, holding numerous leadership positions at the unit and national levels.
Job Titles:
- Designated Director, ALA National Vice President
Trish Ward of Louisburg, Kan., is a 24-year-member of the American Legion Auxiliary. Trish is currently serving as American Legion Auxiliary national vice president and has served the American Legion Auxiliary in a variety of leadership roles at the unit, district, department, and national levels. Trish previously served two terms as a board member for the American Legion Auxiliary Foundation and is a charter member. After retiring from her career as a senior lead project manager at Lumen, Trish now focuses on volunteering for the American Legion Auxiliary and spending time on her hobby of studying parliamentary procedure. Trish is a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians and is passionate about improving the volunteer experience by understanding and articulating the importance of strong governing documents.