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Donna Ward
Donna Ward

Donna Ward  is a trained League moderator and is serving as Vice-President and Chair of Voter Services and for the LWV of the Montclair Area. She is experienced in all aspects of voter services from running candidates forums, speakers meetings and various voter education events.


Donna also serves on the boards of a number of New Jersey non-profits servicing children in foster care, and college preparatory for disadvantaged teens.


She retired happily in 2018 after a 35 year career in global brand marketing, working for consumer packaged goods companies like Bayer, Procter and Gamble, Eastman Kodak and American Cyanamid.

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Susan Mack
Susan Mack

Susan is currently the Connection Committee Chair in the League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area and enjoys getting to know all the members, new and long term members as she continues to get members actively involved in the League. 


She joined the League in early 2017 and quickly became the Voter Registration Chair. In 2020, she was able to successfully recruit a co-chair and together they covered voter registration throughout Essex County via the Town Team platform. The co-chairs along with the Town Teams held over 101 voter registration events (even with covid) and completed 672 voter registration forms in 2020. 


She is committed to the League’s mission of Empowering Voters and Defending Democracy along with the League’s non partisan and grass roots ideals. Her first career was in finance for 23 years and then she was in social work where she worked with foster children and later children with mental health and developmental disabilities for eleven years. 

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Harvey Susswein
Harvey Susswein

Harvey Susswein last year joined his wife, long-time LWV supporter Jane Susswein, as a member. He has participated in LWV voter registration and in presenting Why Voting Matters to local high schools. He serves as an Essex County poll worker. 


Harvey is retired from a career in the systems integration industry where he designed financial systems for large corporations and governments.  He has prior experience as treasurer for several non-profits. 


Harvey and Jane moved to Verona in 2016 after forty years in Montclair. Harvey has degrees from Princeton University and Wharton Business School He is a former Naval officer and Vietnam veteran.

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Louise Haberman
Louise Haberman

A native New Yorker, Louise Haberman followed her grandchildren to the “garden state” of New Jersey. Having served as Co-President of the League of Women Voters of the Town of Oyster Bay, in New York, a couple of decades ago, she now serves as Secretary of the Montclair Area League and is doing her best to understand New Jersey.


Louise has collected candidate information for Essex and Passaic Counties for the League’s VOTE411 database. She has become involved in all levels of the LWV’s efforts including membership in the LWVUS Electoral College Committee, LWVUS Climate Interest Group – Water Task Force, LWVNJ Government Committee, LWVNJ Natural Resources Committee, and LWVMA Environmental Issues

Committee.


In February 2021, Louise retired as a vice president of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. Previously she held positions with New Accountant Magazine, Law Journal Seminars Press, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Gale Research. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Brooklyn College and a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University. A resident of Woodland Park, she encourages her neighbors (and others) to join the Montclair Area League.

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Kathleen Keegan
Kathleen Keegan

Kathy Keegan RN BC BSN MAT

Rutgers Newark BSN

NJCU School Nurse Certification

Seton Hall University MAT


Lives In Cedar Grove with husband Michael, where I was active in scouts and my church. Mom of 2 and Grandma of 3


I had a 41 year nursing career working in local hospitals before retiring 2018 from Seton Hall University after serving an university nurse.


I became a poll worker and joined the League of Women Voters when I retired, working with Voter Registration and Youth Voter Services I am also a volunteer with Moms Demand Action and Be Smart for kids.

Voted at the age 18 over just 50 yrs ago, voting ever since.

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Wendy McNeil
Wendy McNeil

Wendy McNeil is known for being a creative, strong, yet collaborative leader with knowledge of all phases of non-profit management and fundraising. During the course of her career, Wendy has raised over $60 million in major, annual, capital, and planned-gifts.


She loves her community of Montclair where she has lived for over 35 years. She serves on the Montclair Housing Commission and on the Board of Integrity House. As the chair of the Unitarian Universalists Congregation at Montclair’s Undoing Racism Education Team, Wendy has curated and led discussions on powerful women of color, reparations, and Reproductive Justice, among other topics. 


In her spare time, Wendy loves to travel, view, talk, and write about movies, read, go for power walks with her very active small dog, and spend time with her family and friends.

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Ann Moore
Ann Moore

Ann began volunteering with the LWV in 2019 after retiring from a career in real estate management. Ann has worked as Co-Chair of the Voter Registration committee and is now responsible for managing the League's website.


Ann has volunteered as a Literacy tutor, working with adults to improve their English speaking skills and to prepare them for the US citizenship test.


She is committed to to promoting easy access to voting information and is a firm believer in the role the LWV plays in advocating for bi-partisan discussions of all election issues.


Ann has a BA in History from Marymount College and a Masters in Public Administration from New York University.

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