Donna Addkison

PRESIDENT & CEO

Donna Addkison joined the staff of Wider Opportunities for Women in late 2008 as the Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Project Director and now serves as the Family Economic Security Program Director. She provides strategic guidance for WOW’s projects that target intergenerational economic security with a focus on the working years of Heads of Households through advocacy and organizing in and across states, research into multiple measures of income adequacy and public opinion as well as technical assistance for advocates, service providers and others at the state and local levels. Appointed by Mayor C. Ray Nagin in August of 2006, Donna served the city of New Orleans as its Chief Development Officer with oversight of economic development, workforce development, housing and neighborhood services, environmental affairs and more. Donna served as the President and CEO of the Chamber Southwest Louisiana and the Foundation Southwest Louisiana in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Donna was both a City Executive and Vice President of the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit Union – a Community Development Credit Union serving the Southeastern United States. Donna holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with Honors in Political Science from Mississippi University for Women, which honored her with a Distinguished Alumna Award in 2000, and Master’s Degrees in Political Science from Mississippi State University and Criminal Justice from Troy State University.

Ms. Addkison invites you to contact her at daddkison@wowonline.org or (202) 464-1596.