From: NGLTF@aol.com Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:11:18 -0500 Subject: New Members Named to NGLTF Board ************************************************* PRESS RELEASE National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 2320 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 Contact: Kerry Lobel 202.332.6483 x3307 Robert Bray 415.552.6448 ************************************************* NEWS MEMBERS NAMED TO NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Washington, D.C., Feb. 8, 1996...The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) has appointed four new members to its Board of Directors. Named to the Board are: * Kathleen Saadat, of Portland, Oregon. Saadat, a self-employed consultant, trainer and speaker on diversity and other issues, has been involved in lesbian/ gay and progressive political activism in Oregon for the past 20 years. She was on the steering committee of the No on 9 campaign to defeat the 1992 anti-gay ballot measure, and was a highly visible spokesperson and activist on that campaign and on the No on 13 battle in 1994. In 1992, she coordinated African Americans Voting No on Nine, which later became African Americans for Human Rights. She has also worked with the Lesbian Community Project and is co-chair of the Portland Rainbow Coalition. Saadat has received the ACLU of Oregon's Civil Liberties Award, two Spirit of Portlandia leadership awards for her work with the Lesbian Community Project, and the Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Award from the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment, among other citations. * Dick Nathan, of Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif. Nathan has an extensive background in federal, state and local government service, as well as management consulting on health care and other public policy issues. For the past 10 years he has specialized in health facility acquisitions. Nathan was a founding director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation of Los Angeles, and a founding member of the New York Political Action Committee, a mid-70's gay and lesbian organization that educated voters and candidates on gay issues. He was a former trustee of the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn; and was co-chairman of New York City Mayor Ed Koch's Health Care Transition Task Force. Nathan has been supportive of NGLTF since it was founded by his friends in 1973, the late Dr. Howard Brown and Bruce Voeller, among others. His articles on health care policy have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, and the New York City Almanac. * Kenneth Collins, of Long Beach, Calif. Collins, a former private banker, has been involved in numerous local and statewide gay/lesbian and HIV efforts for several years. Collins is the gay/lesbian political and HIV issues representative for the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO). He also serves on ECCO's board of directors. An African American member of the Log Cabin gay republican club, Collins is a delegate for the HIV Health Care Committee of the L.I.F.E. AIDS Lobby of California. As part of the Federation Leadership Training Program, Collins coordinated the internship program for the Orange County Gay and Lesbian Visibility Program. A long-time vestry member and official with the Saint Luke's Episcopal Church of Long Beach, Collins also served on the local area council of the Boy Scouts of America as a community liaison. He has received the United States of America Congressional Gold Award, the Orange County Federation Gay, Lesbian and HIV Organizations "Take Pride" Award, and other honors. * Joseph Hall, of Charleston, S.C. Hall is executive director of Lowcountry AIDS Services in Charleston, and a seasoned veteran in the non-profit service and support field. He has served as a leader on the board of the Fund for Southern Communities, a progressive grant-making institution. In that capacity he spearheaded an effort to establish a permanent lesbian, gay and bisexual program within the Fund, which resulted in the creation of Southern Outlook, the South's first gay-identified funding mechanism. He is a board member of the OUT Fund of the National Funding Exchange, in New York. As a volunteer with the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa, he produced the first HIV prevention film, written and directed by teenage villagers, in "Krio," the common language of Sierra Leone. Collins has traveled to Tanzania as a U.S. Information Service- sponsored speaker and workshop presenter on AIDS counseling and organizational development in East Africa. The four new board members were seated during the January 1996 meeting of NGLTF board of directors. During that meeting the board approved the 1996 Task Force budget, which is $2.49 million. NGLTF is the nation's oldest gay and lesbian civil rights organization. Since 1973, the Task Force has been a progressive organization that supports grassroots organizing and pioneers national advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. ###