Board of Trustees

Shannon TL Isom is the President and CEO of YWCA Dayton. Isom is responsible for the executive and
administrative leadership of the YWCA Dayton, which strives to eliminate racism and empower women.
Likewise, she is responsible to ensure high quality outcomes, financial sustainability, organizational viability,
and exceptional program service delivery. The YWCA Dayton has played a pivotal role in shaping the Dayton
region; Isom’s priority is to carry the mission and to ensure it is both a catalyst and a disrupter for issues that
affect women, especially those most acutely felt through the lens of intersectionality. She served as a YWCA
Dayton board member, as well as Board Chair before taking the helm and ushering the YWCA Dayton into a
$17+M renovation and capital campaign project.

Isom began her professional career with the YWCA Columbus; hired as a program manager of a pilot
program, she solidified her commitment to women, and her passion for medicine and community health into
a realized professional focus. With over 20 years engaged within a myriad of health industries, she has
worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Women's Health Division, Miami Valley Hospital, Premier Health
Partners and CareSource in areas of Sales, Business Development, Systems Integration and Business and
Clinical Integration, respectively. She brings her skill set of visioning, strategic planning and profitable
business focus to every position.

Isom has had extensive Post-Baccalaureate education from The Ohio State University School of Medicine and
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She has a BS of Pre-Medicine/Biology from Spelman
College in Atlanta, Georgia and an MBA in Healthcare Administration from Northeastern D'Amore-McKim
School of Business in Boston, Massachusetts. Awards bestowed include: Dayton Business Journal Forty under
40, Leadership Dayton, Dayton Business Journal 50 Most Powerful Women, Better Business Bureau WiBN
Top 25 Women to Watch, Antioch College Coretta Scott King Justice Award and Dayton Business Journal
Forty under 40 Hall of Fame.

She has spoken in a wide range of venues, including: Standing Firm, University of Dayton Social Practice
Human Rights Conference, Tedx Dayton, Tedx Salons, YWCA USA, United Theological Seminary, Antioch
College, Central State University, Girls on the Run and Power Rising Summit—always addressing the issues
that disparate women of race and class. Through board service on the YWCA USA Board of Directors as well
as President of the Ohio Council of YWCA’s, her focus strives for both political advocacy, mission and
collective voice within national, state and local platforms.

Likewise, she lends her voice, time and energy in the same vain to community through participation on
innumerable boards, committees, task forces and personal and professional mentoring.

Chris is the founder and President of the Black Student Union at Antioch College, and he is the Co-Chair (co-president) of ComCil. He is from Trotwood, Ohio, and his self-design degree is Pre-Law and Community Engagement. His Co-ops consist of The Transgender Law Center in Oakland, California, working in the communications and development department and is going to work at the Law Office of Phillip Brigham for his winter Co-op being a legal assistant. Chris has been a Miller Fellow for The Village Impact Project in Yellow Springs and a student assistant at the Coretta Scott King Center.

[et_pb_section bb_built="1"][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.24.1" text_text_shadow_horizontal_length="text_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" text_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" text_text_shadow_vertical_length="text_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" text_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" text_text_shadow_blur_strength="text_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" text_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" link_text_shadow_horizontal_length="link_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" link_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" link_text_shadow_vertical_length="link_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" link_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" link_text_shadow_blur_strength="link_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" link_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length="ul_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" ul_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" ul_text_shadow_vertical_length="ul_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" ul_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" ul_text_shadow_blur_strength="ul_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" ul_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length="ol_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" ol_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" ol_text_shadow_vertical_length="ol_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" ol_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" ol_text_shadow_blur_strength="ol_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" ol_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length="quote_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" quote_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" quote_text_shadow_vertical_length="quote_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" quote_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" quote_text_shadow_blur_strength="quote_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" quote_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" header_text_shadow_horizontal_length="header_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" header_text_shadow_vertical_length="header_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" header_text_shadow_blur_strength="header_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" header_2_text_shadow_horizontal_length="header_2_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_2_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" header_2_text_shadow_vertical_length="header_2_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_2_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" header_2_text_shadow_blur_strength="header_2_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_2_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" header_3_text_shadow_horizontal_length="header_3_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_3_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" header_3_text_shadow_vertical_length="header_3_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_3_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" header_3_text_shadow_blur_strength="header_3_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_3_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" header_4_text_shadow_horizontal_length="header_4_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_4_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" header_4_text_shadow_vertical_length="header_4_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_4_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" header_4_text_shadow_blur_strength="header_4_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_4_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" header_5_text_shadow_horizontal_length="header_5_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_5_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length="header_5_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_5_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength="header_5_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_5_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length="header_6_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_6_text_shadow_horizontal_length_tablet="0px" header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length="header_6_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_6_text_shadow_vertical_length_tablet="0px" header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength="header_6_text_shadow_style,%91object Object%93" header_6_text_shadow_blur_strength_tablet="1px" box_shadow_horizontal_tablet="0px" box_shadow_vertical_tablet="0px" box_shadow_blur_tablet="40px" box_shadow_spread_tablet="0px" z_index_tablet="500"]

Shalini Deo is the principal law clerk to the Honorable Rita Mella, in New York County Surrogate’s Court, where she has worked since 2013. Shalini earned a Bachelor of Science in a Self-Designed Major titled “Botany, Environment, and Culture” from Antioch College. She is a 2008 graduate of CUNY School of Law, where she was a student practitioner in the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic during her third year. Upon graduating from law school she clerked for the Honorable Ronald L. Ellis, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York. She also serves as an adjunct professor at CUNY School of Law. Shalini lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her spouse and their awesome kid, Meena.

[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

Maureen Lynch is an active community leader who has volunteered for more than 35 years in support of women’s rights, civil liberties and access to health care in Dayton and Yellow Springs, where she resides. A native of Akron, Ohio, Lynch currently serves on the Board of Trustees for The Dayton Foundation.  She previously has served as a board member or officer for a number of local organizations, including Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Planned Parenthood of the Greater Miami Valley, NARAL Ohio, Think TV, Dayton YWCA, Friends Care Community and Lion Apparel, among others. She was recognized in 2003 as one of the Dayton YWCA Women of Influence.​

Neuhardt is a Partner at Thompson Hine LLP in Dayton, Ohio specializing in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and technology law. She was the head of the firm’s corporate transactions and securities practice group from 2005-2008. Neuhardt was also the Vice President and General Counsel of Mead Data Central, Inc. (now known as LexisNexis) from 1987-1990. In addition to her work with the Ohio Democratic Party, Neuhardt has been active in Planned Parenthood for decades. Neuhardt and her husband David are stalwarts of the Yellow Spring's community who helped save the historic Whitehall farm property from mass development, protecting 950 acres with a conservation easement conservation easement through the Tecumseh Land Trust.  She earned a BA from Northwestern University in 1973 and holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

Shelby is the Director of Policy and Programs at the Transgender Law Center (TLC), the countries largest trans led organization. Shelby’s work focuses on supporting the leadership of transgender people of color around the US, to ensure they are alive and thriving. Prior to TLC, Shelby served as the Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Violence Project for 6 years. Shelby holds a BA from Antioch College and an MS in Public Policy from the New School. Shelby has dedicated their career to organizing and mobilizing LGBTQ people, people of color and low income communities to ensure policies are informed by the people directly impacted by economic inequality and violence. Shelby lives in Brooklyn, New York, with their partner and two cats.

John K. Jacobs (not to be confused with John L. Jacobs ’76) has many Antioch connections. He met his wife Mary (class of ’74) when he entered in 1972, his father John K. Jacobs Sr. graduated in 1940, and his first cousin Evelyn Lamers ’69 and her husband Tom (class of ’69) are, or were, all proud Antioch alumni.

After graduating from Antioch with a focus on the fine arts, sculpture in particular, John continued his studies at the MFA program at Hunter College in New York. While there he began working part time in galleries and museums in New York and after leaving Hunter in 1980 he joined the staff of The New Museum where he took the job of Registrar, managing the exhibitions and collections of the museum. After spending 6 years at the museum and seeing it grow into the most cutting edge contemporary art museum in New York he left to join the fledgling art services company, Crozier Fine Arts. This company specialized in the storage, shipping, crating and packing and installation of fine art all over the world and provided the commercial experience that he would need to found his own company.

In 1989, with his wife Mary and their three small children, he left New York for Washington, D.C. to establish ARTEX Fine Art Services in the former post office building of Takoma Park Maryland. The company quickly grew and established offices in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago and Ft. Lauderdale and today is the largest art service provider in the United States, specializing in working with museums, galleries, private collectors and auction houses.

Susan Jean (Shay) Mayer is a developmental learning and curricular theorist who writes on a range of issues related to democratic K-12 practice, social science method, and the study of learning within schools. Mayer draws on contemporary understandings of the work of psychologists Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky and on the philosophy of pragmatism as explicated by John Dewey. Her 2012 book, Classroom Discourse and Democracy: Making Meanings Together, employs classroom discourse analysis in order to characterize and theorize distinctively democratic features of secondary literature discussions.

Mayer has taught in teacher education programs at Brandeis and Northeastern Universities and worked in secondary textbook production for five years. She is editor-in-chief of the online Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies and was a founding member of Critical Explorers, a non-profit that conducts curricular research and design residencies (criticalexplorers.org). An edited book on the use of the teaching approach Critical Exploration in the Classroom within teacher education programs is in review.

Merriman is a graduate of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She is of counsel in the law firm of Voyles Zahn Paul, a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association, and an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. She served on the Antioch University Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2012.

In the past, Sharon worked with Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana, Big Sisters (before they merged), and currently serves on several committees at All Souls Unitarian Church. Additionally, she is a reader for IRIS an organization which works with our public radio/television station to read for the visually impaired. Sharon is an active member of the Travelers Century Club, having visited over one hundred countries and all continents.

Mulhauser has been providing consulting services to nonprofit organizations, grantmakers and political candidates since 1988 (including the Obama for America campaign and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton ‘60). She coordinates a network of over 1,030 Washington, D.C.-area self-employed women. She is founder and coordinator of Trusted Sources, a nonpartisan voter engagement organization. She serves on the D.C. Human Rights Commission and the Advisory Council of Women’s Information Network, which each year presents a D.C. woman with The Karen Mulhauser Award for service to support the advancement of young professional women.

Before consulting, Mulhauser was the Director of the Center for Education on Nuclear War and an affiliated lobbying coalition, Citizens Against Nuclear War (CAN), and was Executive Director of the National Abortion Rights Action League during most of the ‘70s and through 1981.