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The Initiative: Advancing The Blue & Black Partnership

We Proudly Support and Partner with the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center At the Howard University School of Law

Meeting Today’s Challenge

We have reached a watershed moment under the current framework of civil rights and advocacy. The United States Constitution is not always enough to protect the fundamental freedoms of individuals and creating effective strategies to combat social injustice also requires an appreciation for the principles of universal human rights.

Howard University School of Law educators and practitioners have always understood the interplay of civil and human rights at Howard University School of Law. It was the first law school to offer a civil rights curriculum, and the coursework offered included an international human rights perspective. The Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center seeks to expand our understanding of rights to include the universal rights of freedom, equal justice, dignity, and human welfare.

Blue and Black Partnership plans to work closely with the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Our goal is to meet the human rights challenges presented by the present moment through advocacy, scholarship, and organizing.

Advocacy

The Center’s advocacy efforts include the championing of civil and human rights by providing litigation support, policy intervention, and providing research for advocacy campaigns and promoting other community-led initiatives. Our Human and Civil Rights Clinic plays a significant role in our advocacy efforts. Students receive hands-on training in federal and state litigation, advocate before international human rights tribunals, and utilize these mechanisms to support movements for social change. Students are working at the forefront of some of the most pressing civil and human rights issues of today. They are dealing with issues of police brutality, racial justice, mass incarceration, unconstitutional prison conditions, and other concerns that implicate core constitutional and human rights.

Scholarship

The Center is a repository for research and intellectual engagement on human and civil rights. We are fostering rigorous debate on the social justice issues of the day. Central to this goal is our work in conjunction with the Human and Civil Rights Law Review. This student-led organization publishes the scholarly works of leading human and civil rights scholars and practitioners. The HCR Law Review hosts the annual C. Clyde Ferguson Jr. Lecture, named for the former dean of Howard University School of Law and noted human and civil rights scholar. As we move forward, the Center plans to regularly bring together national and international scholars at conferences and debates share ideas, inspire new knowledge, and inform our practice.

Organizing

Our organizing effort accomplishes two goals: engaging community stakeholders to ensure that our advocacy is driven by grassroots organizing in a bottom-up fashion, and training the next generation of community organizers. The cornerstone of these efforts is the Human and Civil Rights Law and Organizing Collaborative, a newly formed student organization at Howard University. The Collaborative is an opportunity for all Howard students to train in community organizing, collaborate with community organizations, and work on public education campaigns.

BACKGROUND

Archive photo of Thurgood Marshall leading a group down the street

From Reconstruction to the passage of federal civil rights legislation of the 1960s, the United States saw significant gains in the struggle for political, legal and social rights of African Americans and other minority groups. During this period, Howard University School of Law educators and alumni like Thurgood Marshall, Pauli Murray, Charles Hamilton Houston and C. Clyde Ferguson Jr., challenged injustices under the law through civil rights litigation and sparked social movements that fought for equality and human dignity.

At the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law, we recognize the strides that were made by the civil rights movement but appreciate that there is still significant work to be done. Systemic injustice is deeply entrenched within the educational, criminal justice, and political systems in the United States. Added to this, we are currently witnessing the rolling back of the civil rights protections for which our leaders fought, and an increase in state-sanctioned human rights violations.

With concerns growing over these human and civil rights rollbacks, we also see the growth of social movements that galvanize communities into collective action to fight back against growing injustice and threats against human rights. As movements like Black Lives Matter and the movement to end mass incarceration evolve, there is an increasing need for highly trained lawyers to collaborate with and support their efforts.

The Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center is uniquely qualified to immediately take on the challenges of today by building on Howard Law’s legacy, creating new and innovative ways to address modern civil rights issues and support

The Next 150

Howard University School of Law opened its doors in 1869 with a mission to empower newly freed citizens to secure their fundamental freedoms and became the premier law school for educating African American lawyers. Following its mission, Howard was the first law school in the United States to offer training in civil rights law. From the beginning, law professors at Howard understood that their struggle for was for more than just rights granted under the Constitution; recognizing that there was a broader fight for freedom, equality, and human welfare, civil rights courses were informed by an appreciation for international human rights law. Soon, Howard University School of Law was at the forefront of the struggle for the liberation from racial injustice.

The Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center was established in 2018 to play a significant role in the fight for racial justice. With pride, we take inspiration from the work of Thurgood Marshall and other notable civil rights leaders like Charles Hamilton Houston and Pauli Murray, who worked and trained at Howard University School of Law. Our unique institution provided the perfect incubator for those most impacted by racial injustice to offer thought leadership on civil rights law and build strategies to address the harms of racism and inequality.

At the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, we are working to free communities from racial injustice and to uplift community-led movements. We use law, policy, and scholarship to advocate for the universal implementation of human rights. By doing this work, we are building on the legacy of Howard University School of Law and leveraging the strength of its mission to solve the human and civil rights challenges of today and train the next generation of social justice engineers.

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Executive Director

Nadine Jones graduated from Howard University School of law in 2003. Ms. Jones (then Nadine Jones-Francis) co-authored a Supreme Court amicus brief in the case of Grutter v. Bollinger on behalf of Howard Law students. After graduation, she joined Arnold & Porter LLP’s Washington, D.C. office where she practiced in the area of regulatory compliance for nine years. Ms. Jones left the law firm briefly to serve as Counsel on the Antitrust Modernization Commission (“AMC”), a bipartisan commission created by Congress and the White House. Ms. Jones returned to Arnold & Porter after the close of the AMC in 2007, where she briefed and argued a Fourth Amendment case, Henderson v. State before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, and then before the highest court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Ms. Jones and overturned her client’s conviction on the grounds that the police officers lacked reasonable suspicion to detain him during a traffic stop. Ms. Jones left the firm to join a New Jersey-based multibillion-dollar company as Vice President of Compliance for North America. In her role as Regional Compliance Officer, Ms. Jones understands that to create an effective compliance program, it is critical to understand the industry at issue and the pressure points that can cause people to violate policy before crafting changes to mitigate or even neutralize those pressure points.

There is no question that creating a policy, or even legislation, is important. But only after engaging with various stakeholders at the ground level, understanding how things are currently done and why they are done that way, and then proposing changes that can be executed with the buy-in of the critical stakeholders involved, is the only way to effect change. Without these additional steps, including continuous training on these new policies or procedures, a policy is little more than words on a page. Ms. Jones understands this and has the experience needed to get things done, at the ground level.

Ms. Jones currently resides in New Jersey with her nine-year old son. She enjoys sketching and is active in her local church.

Nadine Jones
Nadine Jones

Executive Director

Nadine Jones graduated from Howard University School of law in 2003. Ms. Jones (then Nadine Jones-Francis) co-authored a Supreme Court amicus brief in the case of Grutter v. Bollinger on behalf of Howard Law students. After graduation, she joined Arnold & Porter LLP’s Washington, D.C. office where she practiced in the area of regulatory compliance for nine years. Ms. Jones left the law firm briefly to serve as Counsel on the Antitrust Modernization Commission (“AMC”), a bipartisan commission created by Congress and the White House. Ms. Jones returned to Arnold & Porter after the close of the AMC in 2007, where she took briefed and argued a Fourth Amendment case, Henderson v. State before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, and then before the highest court in Maryland, the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Ms. Jones and overturned her client’s conviction on the grounds that the police officers lacked reasonable suspicion to detain him during a traffic stop. Ms. Jones left the firm to join a New Jersey-based multibillion-dollar company as Vice President of Compliance for North America. In her role as Regional Compliance Officer, Ms. Jones understands that to create an effective compliance program, it is critical to understand the industry at issue and the pressure points that can cause people to violate policy before crafting changes to mitigate or even neutralize those pressure points in a collaborative matter with those who work in the field on a day-to-day basis.

Nadine Jones

Ron Mitchell

Ron is a business executive with 20+ years experience leading people and organizations.  Ron has built and managed technology-enabled consumer and enterprise businesses focused on career education, talent assessment, job placement & professional development, which have assisted millions of professionals and job seekers.  He has also served as a partner in a private equity firm.  His professional experience has given him a keen understanding of the challenges that managers face in strategic execution, financial & operational management and team leadership.

Most recently Ron served as the CEO of Virgil Holdings Inc. (VHI).  VHI is a PE-backed enterprise that owns and operates technology-enabled human capital solutions, including Hcareers, the leading talent recruitment platform in the hospitality industry and Virgil Careers, a career assessment and analytics platform. Prior to Virgil, Ron founded and served as CEO of CareerCore Inc.  CareerCore is an enterprise SaaS platform that enables organizations to scale professional development coaching throughout an organization.  Through Virgil and CareerCore, Ron has worked with many of the world’s most prestigious organizations including Marriott, JPMorgan, Omnicom, JCPenney, Visa and Accenture.

Prior to his work in the HR technology space, Ron spent several years as an investment banker and private equity professional. Ron was a General Partner of Provender Capital Group, LLC, $150 million merchant banking fund making principal investments in media, financial services and specialty retail.  Through Provender portfolio companies, Ron worked on transactions involving the purchase of many well-known consumer brands such as Comet Cleaner, Prell Shampoo, Chloraseptic Lozenges, Vanguarde Media, and Pizza Hut franchises. Ron’s professional experience also includes Morgan Stanley, Mitchell & Titus, McKinsey & Co. and The Anschutz Corporation.

Ron earned his AB from Harvard University and MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business where he served as President of his class. While at Harvard College, Ron was a 2-time captain of the varsity basketball team and 3-time All-Ivy selection. He is also a member of the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame.

Ron is an avid sports enthusiast including basketball, tennis and golf.  He also enjoys salsa dancing. He and his partner, Eboni Gates, are the parents of identical twin boys Max and Trace.

Current & Former Board Participation:

  • Asterisk Ventures, Advisory Board Member (2020 – Present)
  • WeSolar Inc., Board Member (2020 – Present)
  • Virgil Holdings, Inc., Board Member (2018 – 2020)
  • Harvard University Alumni Board, Elected Director (2017 – 2020)
  • CareerCore Inc., Board Member (2005 – 2016)
  • Platform, Founding Board Member (2012-2013)
  • Odyssey House, Treasurer, Chair of Finance Committee (2004-2008)
  • Guttman Community College, Founding Advisory Board (2009-2010)
  • Vanguard Media, Board Member (2000 – 2002)
  • PacPizza, Board Member (Interim CEO) (1999-2002)

Vickie S. Robinson, Esq.

General Manager, The Airband Initiative

Vickie Robinson joined Microsoft in January 2018 after nearly two decades in the service of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in multiple leadership roles and most recently as Acting CEO and General Counsel of the Universal Service Administrative Co., an independent not-for-profit organization designated by the FCC as the administrator of the federal Universal Service Fund.  At Microsoft, Ms. Robinson continues her commitment to Universal Access by fostering relationships with internal and external partners, with the goal of closing the global digital divide and driving digital transformation enabled through applications and services powered by Microsoft’s Cloud.

Ms. Robinson is well versed in the complexities of Universal Broadband Access, having started her career with the FCC as an Attorney Advisor supporting policies underlying the federal universal service support mechanisms and the universal service contribution system.  From there, she steadily advanced through a series of promotions of increasing influence, responsibility, and authority, where she advised FCC senior leadership and thought leaders in shaping the development of Universal Broadband Access policies.

In 2015, Ms. Robinson was promoted to the position of Special Counsel to the Division Chief, Competition Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau at the FCC, where she worked with attorneys, economists, business analysts, and data analysts to track the deployment and availability of Universal Broadband Access to consumers nationwide.  She left the FCC in February 2016 to join the senior leadership Team of the Universal Service Administrative Co., administering nearly $10B in annual funds supporting Universal Broadband Access, serving as Acting Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel.

As General Manager for the Airband Initiative at Microsoft, Ms. Robinson draws upon her broad and deep command of Universal Broadband Access to deliver consistent results for the company in our ambitions to help close the global digital divide.

Ms. Robinson holds a Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Howard University, also graduating Magna Cum Laude.  She resides in Mitchellville, Maryland with her husband Paul and their twins, Kendall Marie and Paul Gilscott.

Susan Schwartz

Founder, The SODA Fund™

Susan Schwartz is an award-winning, experienced, and accomplished creative services strategist, author, journalist, and nonprofit founder, who prides herself on her ability to deliver high-quality content and optimized branding experiences to her readers, clients, and partners. Her hands-on experience as a leader in both large organizations and overseeing national campaigns allows her to deliver results-based outcomes that are both reliable and sustainable.

Susan has a degree in Communications/Criminal Justice from The American University and completed post-grad studies in Public Health at John Hopkins University. Susan started as an investigative journalist, where her work led her to Knight-Ridder Tribune in The National Press Building. She wrote, reported, and produced stories for national network news and then transitioned to a career in IT at America Online, working in business development, operations, production, and International software product development. Susan contributes to projects with partners such as HuffPost, The National Domestic Violence Hotline, Medium, YourTango, and The SODA-Pop.

Five years ago, Susan turned her time and attention directly to the cause of helping those who are in domestic abuse situations and founded a national nonprofit, The SODA Fund INC, dedicated to helping victims and survivors of domestic abuse. She is the principal of four enterprises and has published a book, SPARKS IN LOVE, which she hopes will serve as both an educational and cautionary tale to everyone who reads it. Susan is a mom to two teenage boys and hopes that her work will contribute to a world in which all children can feel safe every day – and in all circumstances.

Susan Schwartz

DeeDee Fisher

Head of Marketing & Communications

DeeDee Fisher knows that success begins with communication. She is committed to direct thoughtful dialogue that produces results for herself and her clients. As a communications expert, executive coach and entrepreneur, she has been featured in women’s health and fitness magazines and in the book “Balancing Your Life”.

When she is not working to create outstanding communication in organizations and in human relationships, you can find her biking, kayaking, hiking, hanging with her daughter, family and friends.

Her latest project,” Save her Self,” is committed to increasing communication between children to create future adults that are clear about their voice and their rights while holding compassion for themselves and others. Find her at www.deedeefisher.com

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Ama Romaine

Chair

Ama Romaine is a seasoned executive who brings a wealth of diverse, global, legal and commercial experience that spans a broad range of industries.  She is a dynamic and collaborative leader who has represented clients primarily in the Financial Services and Hospitality industries across the public, private and non-profit sectors. Ama is a commercially focused, strategic leader who possesses expertise in commercial transactions, brand building, franchising and reputation management.

Ama is currently the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at G6 Hospitality, the parent company for the iconic Motel 6 and Studio 6 brands. In this role Ama has been focused primarily on building a strong compliance culture, aggressively managing a high-risk litigation portfolio, and developing a holistic response to some of the company’s most challenging reputational issues.

Previously, Ama held a number of positions with increasing responsibility in the hospitality industry, including as the Vice President & Senior Counsel for Brands at Hilton Worldwide. Ama also practiced law at top-ranked law firms in the United States and Trinidad, where she represented lenders and borrowers on a broad range of financing transactions.

Ama Romaine

Imani D. Moody, M.B.A.

Director of Finance & Administration, LEAP

Mr. Moody received his B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Morehouse College and his M.B.A. from Columbia University with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship.

He has 25 years of experience in financial technology, corporate finance, and entrepreneurship with such companies as Bloomberg Financial, American Express Bank, and Thompson Financial, and was instrumental in the founding of Bloomberg Integration Services and Primus Financial Technologies.

In 2010, Mr. Moody began to leverage his expertise in financial entrepreneurship to enhance educational and social justice outcomes in underserved communities.  He became the Founding Director of Operations/ Chief Financial Officer for Newark Legacy Charter School, an innovative and successful community school, serving students and families in the highest need South Ward of Newark, NJ. In 2015, Mr. Moody continued to provide leadership in enhancing education outcomes as Chief Financial Officer at the “I Have A Dream” Foundation in New York City, a national organization committed to empowering children in low-income communities to achieve higher education by providing guaranteed tuition support and in 2019 with Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP), a foundation whose mission is to dismantle the barriers to access and equity to arts education for New York City’s underserved youth, largely brown and black children whose engagement in school is significantly enhanced through active participation in the arts.

Imani Moody

Sandra Delistathis, MD

Internist at Capital Integrative Health, Previously Hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians

Dr. Delistathis is a top-rated internal medicine physician in the Washington, DC area, having practiced hospital and private practice medicine for 17 years. For the last three years Dr. Delistathis has been practicing at Capital Integrative health, a holistic medicine practice that also includes specialists from variety of other disciplines (psychologists, nutritionists, health coaches and acupuncturists) to offer a holistic approach to patient care.

Before that Dr. Delistathis worked as an inpatient Hospitalist within the Johns Hopkins hospital system for 12 years.  She grew up overseas in the Middle East and Europe and is fluent in Arabic, French and is proficient in Spanish.

She served on the board of the Norwood School in Bethesda, MD from 2013-2016 where she spearheaded the medical committee.

Dr. Delistathis holds an M.D. from University of Maryland School of Medicine, an M.P.H.in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University School of Public Health, and a B.A. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University.

Sandra Delistathis

Jennifer Silberman

Founder and President, Creative Disruption

Jennifer Silberman is the Founder and President of Creative Disruption, a global strategy and change consultancy dedicated to helping brands unlock the potential of sustainabil-ity to create better products, better customer experiences, better communities and a bet-ter future. She is regarded as an expert in the fields of sustainability and social impact and has more than 25 years of experience working globally in the areas of environmental sustainability, human rights and trafficking, women’s empowerment, responsible sourc-ing, economic development and youth opportunity. In addition to strategy and program design, Jennifer also has significant experience in consumer insights, stakeholder en-gagement, internal and external communications and advocacy for sustainability and so-cial impact to generate business and brand value.

Jennifer most recently served as Vice President, Corporate Responsibility for Target where she led the company’s commitment to create positive economic, social and environmental impact in the local and global communities it serves. She had direct responsibility for the company’s sustainability and social impact strategy and priorities and created Future at Heart, Target’s first integrated approach designed to deliver market differentiation and strategic business value creation. Under her leadership, Target released an enterprise-wide chemical strategy regarded as the most comprehensive in the retail sector; developed SBTi-approved climate goals; kicked-off an enterprise-wide human rights impact assessment; created Target Clean,
the brand’s first product standard for Essentials & Personal Care categories; transformed the Target Foundation’s philanthropic strategy and programmatic focus; and supported the implementation of the company’s first product sustainability and responsible sourc-ing goals in the areas of raw materials, worker wellbeing and clean manufacturing.

Jennifer joined Target from Hilton where she served as Chief of Staff to the President and CEO as well as Vice President of Corporate Responsibility. She was hired as Hilton’s first Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, creating a formalized function focused on deliv-ering long-term results for the company’s hotel and timeshare operations, societal impact and shareholder value. She led a global team responsible for the strategy, integration and communication of Hilton’s sustainability and social impact initiatives across more than 4,500 hotels globally. Jennifer also led a multi-year, multi-stakeholder global initiative to uncover and embed Hilton’s purpose throughout the organization. Previously, she worked at APCO Worldwide, where as a Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, she consulted for Fortune 100 companies, NGOs, corporate and private foundations, government and trade associations.

Jennifer holds a M.A. in International Economics and Latin American Studies from The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. with honors in Latin American Studies from Mount Holyoke College. She currently serves on the boards of Net Impact and Keep America Beautiful. She is also a Senior Advisor, Sustainability and Social Impact for BeyondBrands and mentor for Be-yondSKU.

Toral Balakrishnan

As a managing partner of RATA Development, Toral Balakrishnan is committed to succeed. As a daughter of an immigrant from India, Toral was led to a career in medicine. She graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor’s of Science as a Physician Assistant in 1999. Immediately after graduation, she practiced Cosmetic Dermatology at the famous Berman Skin Institute in Palo Alto, California where she specialized in aesthetic laser technology. Shortly after working in California, she decided to spend more time at home with her family in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, she worked as a Physician Assistant in Facial Plastic Surgery. After two years, Toral got married and settled in Northern Virginia with her husband in 2001. In October 2001, she joined the Plastic Surgery Associates of Northern Virginia. Toral worked here for 13 years assisting and performing facial plastic surgery, full body plastic and reconstructive surgery as well as laser assisted procedures on the cutting edge of technology. Toral, along with her Supervising Physician, published internationally recognized articles. She trained physicians and other medical professionals on laser anti-aging technology.

Although Toral enjoyed working in medicine and she succeeded working in medicine, she felt that this was not her true passion. With the support of her family, she decided to jump two feet into the world of her family business, hotel management and development. She had no formal education in business however her Stanford grad father always believed that so long as you have an education, you can teach yourself anything you put your mind to.

In 2013, Toral and her family moved to Austin, Texas, purchasing her first independent motel. Here is where she learned the basics of the hotel industry. From there, her and her husband purchased and sold a few properties while managing a few others. She became partners with well known hotel brands like Crowne Plaza, Motel 6, and Comfort Inn & Suites. Soon after, Toral and her husband developed their first Hilton hotel in Round Rock, Texas.

Today, Toral and her husband own and operate 4 hotels with another 4 hotels in development. She also sits on the Tru by Hilton Owners Advisory Board as well as the Motel 6 Owners Advisory Board. Toral also serves as Advisory Director at the State Bank of Texas.

Toral is married to Rajesh Balakrishnan, a practicing dentist. She also has two beautiful daughters, Ariana & Avni.

Toral Balakrishnan
Meredith Persily Lamel

CEO, Aspire@Work

As an executive coach, consultant, facilitator and professor, Meredith Persily Lamel specializes in the leadership challenges of complex, global organizations including technology, healthcare, financial services, and hospitality.  Leaders call on Meredith to challenge their management teams, facilitate the development of their vision and strategic goals, and instigate transformation. With an MBA and professional coach certification, Meredith brings her deep business background, understanding of neuroscience, and a variety of leadership assessments to her clients.

A keen observer and trusted advisor, Meredith helps her global C-suite coaching clients break through the clutter, get clear about the real issues at hand, find their purpose, and take risks so they can play in an even bigger arena.  She has delivered leadership programs in 17 countries across five continents and in 38 states and the District of Columbia.

Meredith served on the faculty of American University’s Kogod School of Business from 2010-2013 and transitioned in 2014 to teaching public sector leaders in American University’s School of Public Administration Key Leadership Programs. Her courses include Transforming from Manager to Leader, Leading High Performance Teams, and Action Learning.

As the former director of training and consulting for The Congressional Management Foundation, she coached and consulted for Members of Congress and their Chiefs of Staff.  She also served as director of executive education of CEB’s Corporate Leadership Council working with hundreds of leading corporations around the world.  Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Meredith began her career as a telecommunications market analyst and then Research Director for the telecommunications division of Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Meredith earned an MBA, with concentrations in finance, strategy and organizational behavior, from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She earned her BA with honors from Brown University.

Featured on NPR, in Entrepreneur, SHRM, Roll Call, Politico and more, Meredith is a subject matter expert on multi-generational leadership, career transition, executive onboarding, employee engagement and current workplace trends.

She earned a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (P.C.C.) by the International Coach Federation.  She is certified in The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), The Leadership Circle Profile™, DiSC®, Appreciative Inquiry, Korn Ferry’s ESCI (EQ) tool, and The NeuroLeadership Institute’s Brain-Based Coaching.

Merideth Lamel