Elizabeth Organt graduated from the University of Baltimore with a B.A. in history and an M.S. in education from Niagara University. She has 28 years of experience teaching and advising students with diagnosed learning disabilities. She, also, served as Department Chair, Mentor and Senior Project Advisor. She has presented at numerous conferences, mainly with The Learning Disabilities Association of America. Currently, she is serving on the Adult Transition to College, Trade School or Career Committee for Learning Disabilities of Pennsylvania. She currently lives in the suburban Philadelphia area with her husband and enjoys spending time traveling.
Mr. Norman is a dedicated public servant gifted with the ability to bring people of seemingly unrelated interests together. He personally and professionally knows the challenges in forging a unique career in spite of bias and barriers. He currently serves as the Chair of the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights. He has a unique brand of serving the public with a special sidekick, guide dog Bowie.
His public policy dialogue work shows his orientation towards non-partisan collaboration, convening experts together. In 2020, he received the Administrator’s Award at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for his work on healthcare accessibility and quality policy related to people with disabilities. In November 2019, he served as a Fellow at the invite-only Public Policy Conflict Resolution Fellowship. A program for high-level leaders convened under the auspices of the Md. judiciary. He serves on the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2015, he served as a Visiting Fellow at the non-partisan Robert J. Dole Institute for Politics. He established a multi-year non-partisan symposium on animal law and policy brokering regional or even national experts together. He is known for his semi-regular salons in which he brokers thought leaders, including, the disabled and the able, having mentored a range of law students with disabilities.
Mr. Norman believes that action in the public square must be matched with scholarship and reflection. He is the past founder and Co-Executive Editor of The Mid-Atlantic Journal on Law and Public Policy: Animal and Disability Reporter, a non-partisan, law and public policy journal on animal and disability issues. He has a column in the Maryland Daily Record focusing on policy and on his adventures to influence policy as a lawyer with a guide dog.
Mr. Norman started his public service career as a Presidential Management Fellow in 2000 with the federal government after graduating from Wright State University and Cleveland State University. He serves as pro bono legal counsel to the Board of Directors of the Presidential Management Alumni Association. In 2011, he obtained his Master in Letters of Law at the Program on Law and Government at the Washington College of Law at American University, focusing on healthcare regulation as well as healthcare policy and non-discrimination. He has served as a policy briefer on disability and non-discrimination at a global health conference on gender and human rights. In 2008, he traveled to the European Union as an American Marshall Memorial Fellow.
Mr. Norman enjoys the theatre, writing, and sharing time reading his books whilst drinking coffee. His dog or dogs are usually nearby chewing on a bone or playing with toys.
The Founder and Chief Experiences Officer of Marketing Mastery, a VIP Membership and Mastermind Coaching organization by invitation only, David Dunworth remains vitally active in business and philanthropy.
He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Ecuador, Greenland, and the United States, both in military and civilian roles. Dunworth presently resides in Florida.
An international best-selling author of six books and hundreds of published articles on marketing and leadership, Dunworth speaks globally on philanthropy, direct response marketing, copywriting, and leadership in this new age. He plans to create his own podcast/television show on philanthropy to be announced by the end of the summer of 2023.
With more than three decades of direct-response marketing expertise, he also serves the servant leadership communities by working pro bono to advance the missions of nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and ministries for over three years.
David is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SynerVision Leadership Foundation and a Strategic Philanthropist with Kings Counsel & Trust Family Office Ministry FBO. He leads its ministry initiative efforts in the US and Uganda.
He is a member of The Thought Council, a celebrated C-Suite Network leadership cohort, and is formulating a C-Suite Network Philanthropy Council that will be announced in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Jim is proud to serve Peaces of Me as its current Secretary, on its Board of Directors, and on some committees.
Peaces of Me organization’s co-founder and President, Daniel Hodges, Esq., met Jim in law school, during which Dan helped found and create Peaces of Me and recruited Jim, his classmate to the cause.
While Jim has always advocated for those less fortunate, with an eye on inclusion and cooperation, Jim is new to the Disability Community. With his recent diagnosis of Meniere’s and a somewhat debilitating neck injury, Jim has new purpose in helping to open the doors of opportunity to all as a benefit to all.
Jim’s legal background of more than 30 years as a legal secretary, paralegal, and now Law Clerk, has provided him with invaluable skills that he hopes to use in service to Peaces of Me. Jim is honored to be in the company of diverse, resourceful, and impressively capable and accomplished people that comprise and serve Peaces of Me.