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ANN MILLER
WOODFORD is the Founder and Executive Director of
One Dozen Who Care, Inc., and organization whose
mission is "to strengthen our leadership abilities
and to create community bonds through common cultural
situations." Ann is the initiator and/or collaborative
implementer of many of the organization's projects
and programs.
Ann is a member of
the Board of Directors of the Asheville based Center
for Participatory Change, where she works with some
members of the Latino community. This work has made
it clear to her that she must learn to speak Spanish.
As a Board member of
the Fred Craddock Center in Blue Ridge, GA., Ann
has the opportunity to work with our close neighbors
in North Georgia where there are no African Americans.
Her work as a member
of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Office
of Economic Opportunity of the Catholic Social Services
in Murphy, NC gives her a new view of how we can
use the faith community to make distinctive systemic
changes within our immediate community.
Ann is a Charter Member
of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Storytellers' Guild,
a business person, a Fine Artist, a Craftsperson,
the Treasurer of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of
Andrews Sunday School, the Treasurer of the Waynesville
Missionary Baptist Association and a recipient of
the 2000 Rural Leader of the Year from the NC Rural
Economic Development Organization and 2003 North
Carolina Governor's Volunteer Award for her work
in this community.
Former positions Ann
has held are:
Board of Directors
of HandMade in America
Board of Directors of the Rural Economic Development
Organization
(REDO)
Executive Director of the Andrews Chamber of Commerce
Cherokee County Planner
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