Leadership

Susan O'Farrell

Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair. Retired Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded company.  Susan currently sits on three corporate boards and is active in the local community.  

IWF Georgia IWD 2025 Committee Chairs

IWD 2025 Sponsorship Chair ​

Myra Bierria
Myra is the SVP, Chief Administrative Officer for Southern Company Gas.  She is an energy industry executive and trusted c-suite advisor with over two decades of experience in the areas of corporate governance, securities law compliance and disclosure, market capitalization and general corporate matters. Skilled at practical and creative solutions in compliance with frequently changing rules and regulations. 

IWD 2025 PR/Communications Chair ​

Gina Espinosa-Meltzer

Gina is the CEO of Hope-Beckham Espinosa Inc.. She joined Hope-Beckham with the merger of the firm she founded 12 years ago, GPR Global, into HBI, now HBE. She’s a communications strategist and publicist who’s worked with for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness of their brand, increase sales and enhance messaging to both the Hispanic and mainstream markets. 

IWD 2025 Program Committee Chair ​

Amy Glennon

Amy Glennon is the former publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and of Cox Media Group’s Vertical Businesses, a portfolio of digital content sites.
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Glennon is on the Advisory Board of the James M. Cox Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership at The University of Georgia; and is an Advisory Board member of the Salvation Army of Metro Atlanta.

IWD 2025 PowerTalk Chair ​

Monica Khant

Monica is the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence. She has a legal background in immigration and human rights and has extensive expertise in thoughtful, strategic, innovative, client-centered nonprofit management. 

IWD 2025 Host 

Sheila Weidman

Sheila is the Senior Vice President of Communications, Government and Public Affairs for Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, and many other products.

IWD Event Director, 2020 - 2025

Jennifer Langley

Jennifer Langley is the IWF Georgia Forum Manager and Managing Principal of JL Events & Association Management.  She established her company with a focus on providing association and operations management as a contracted executive director for professional membership organizations. She is a senior executive with 20+ years of success building organizations and associations through strategic growth initiatives and effective operations management to thoroughly execute an organization’s mission and vision by assembling a support team and providing oversight. 

IWD Founding Chair