Our Staff

President Samuel Epps is a bald, bearded Black man with medium skin tone wearing glasses, smiling slightly
Lolita Martin is a lightskinned Black woman with blonde, short, curly hair smiling at camera wearing red lipstick

Lolita Martin
Chief of Staff and
Staff Attorney, Claimant Advocacy Program
(202) 974-8149
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Tonya Love
Program Director, Claimant Advocacy Program
(202) 974-8159

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Jo Combs
Finance/Operations Manager
(202) 974-8011

Sig Meilus
Director, Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO
(202) 974-8226

Executive Board

OFFICERS

  • President: Samuel Epps, UNITE HERE Local 25

  • 1st Vice President: Herbert Harris, BLET/IBT 482

  • 2nd Vice President: I. Chuck Clay, IATSE 22

  • 3rd Vice President: Kayla Mock, UFCW Local 400

  • Secretary: David Hoagland, IAFF 36

  • Treasurer: Chris Roell, Workers United Mid-Atlantic Regional Joint Board

TRUSTEES

  • Kelley Ukhun, DC Acts Local 1927

  • Tarren Peterson, SEIU 1199

  • Tom Gifford, Steamfitters Local 602

MEMBERS

  • Robin Burns, DCNA

  • Barbara Churchill, IATSE 868

  • Tom Clark, IBEW 26

  • William Davis, IBT 639

  • Daniel Fields, SEIU 722

  • Korey Hartwich, NNU

  • Donald Havard, IUOE 99

  • Ottis Johnson, AFGE District 14

  • Roxana Mejia, IUPAT DC 51

  • Leah Anderson, ATU 689

  • David Pendleton, SMART TD 1470

  • Jacqueline Pogue Lyons, WTU

  • Carol Rosenblatt, MD/DC Alliance for Retired Americans

  • Wanda Shelton-Martin, NUHHCE/AFSCME DC 1199

  • T. Smalls, Plumbers 5

  • Michael Spiller, OPEIU 2

  • Corey Upchurch, AFSCME 1959

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