Natalie Andre, President
Natalie Pullman Andre is a third-generation activist. Her maternal grandparents met and married in Poland despite their very disparate backgrounds—he was a socialist and she was Hasidic. They emigrated to England around 1904, where she became an anarchist while he became involved in the labor movement with the Wobblies, the nickname for the International Workers of the World, which gave birth to the Labour Party.
Her parents continued this tradition during the tumultuous Depression, settling into a middle-class life when their children came along. Natalie continued this lifestyle, starting with the March on Washington for civil rights in 1963 at the age of 18. For the past 35 years, she has been instrumental in promoting women’s rights and welfare in Palm Beach County, Florida. She joined with Kenas Odongo and Vivian Awuor in early 2024, jump-starting American support for CWPFG, which is headed by Vivian and expertly promoted by Kenas.
Terry Sanders, Treasurer
Terry Sanders is the youngest of 10 children from an Irish family in Massachusetts. After 30+ years working as an Information Technology analyst in California, she retired to Florida. Terry has always had a passion for women’s rights and devoted the next 10 years to leadership positions with the National Organization for Women/NOW. Knowing Natalie through NOW, she was introduced to the great work being done by CWPFG to empower the women and girls in Kenya. While being retired and traveling as much as possible, Terry is happy to help this organization be successful.
Lin Amendt, Vice President
Lin Amendt lives in Florida and is a retired scientist from NIH & FDA. She has one daughter.
Lin has been involved as a proud leader of Women’s issues all her life, starting with being one of the first members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in Pennsylvania in 1972. She served as a Girl Scout leader for her daughter’s Scout group for many years, instilling in young girls the sense that ANYTHING they set their minds to, is possible!
Lin was a member of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee at the FDA, as the Women’s representative to the Commissioner of the FDA.
She was an Advisor to the Board of Montgomery County, Maryland NOW for many years. Lin was also an Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation in Washington, DC, which advocates for civil, reproductive, and human rights for women.
Lin served in the official capacity as a ‘Commissioner for Women’ in Montgomery County, Maryland for 3 years. She founded a Women’s Month exhibit at the Montgomery County Library, and she wrote the winning submission that achieved getting Henrietta Lacks*, an African American woman, included posthumously in the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame. Lin is a firm believer that women and girls are a force to be respected and reckoned with! A woman that knows her worth is a proud treasure!
*Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. Lin actually got to talk with her family to get permission to use her cells. The Governor of Maryland ran the program that day, and because her cells were stored at NIH, Dr Francis Collins, Director of NIH at that time, met with Lin and interceded for her family’s permission.