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Altheada Johnson, Brooklyn, New York
Director, 1994-2000, 2001-present
Chairman of the Board, 1996-2000
Secretary of the Board, 2001-present
Altheada and Fred Johnson (click to read their story)
Altheada Johnson was elected by the Board in 1996 to be Chairman of the
Board. This is the highest honor the Board can confer on one of its members.
Altheada has played an essential role in fund-raising and public relations.
She is a member of the Membership Committee, and focuses on Outreach to
the medically underserved. She is a tireless letter writer, and has appeared
on agendas at meetings on Minorities and Cancer (D.C.); Women and Genetics
(Illinois), and she will present a poster at a conference in Alabama in
September. Altheada is our in-house consultant on nutrition, and heads
an informal alternative medicine interest group. She is in touch with
doctors and researchers on the topics of pain management and pre-implantation
testing.
Her husband Fred organized and supervised a computer bulletin board, the precursor to our Web service on the internet. He supervised our online service and internet account 1994-1998.
Following a sabbatical year's leave from the Board she returned in
2001 as Secretary of the Board, and a member of the Executive Committee.
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