Who We Are

Jeremiah Watts

Jeremiah is the Principal of D|WATTS Construction, where he is responsible for providing project and executive oversight managing projects from design development through construction occupancy. Prior to founding D|WATTS, Jeremiah worked with HITT Contracting for more than a decade, overseeing large teams and an award-winning portfolio.

He holds a BS in Public and Private Sector Organizations from Brown University.

Diane Murray

Diane is enjoying retirement after serving as Assistant Vice President in the Strategy and Innovation Division at SourceAmerica. Prior to joining SourceAmerica Diane worked at Northrop Grumman for 32 years, where she served as VP, Chief Information Officer, and Deputy GM of the Global Information Technology Division, before retiring in 2009.

Active in her church and community, Diane has received several awards recognizing her professional achievements and community service, including Computerworld’s Premier 100 Technology Leader and National Women of Color Technology Leadership awards.

Diane received a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Spelman College and a Master’s degree in Operations Research from Cornell University.

Isabel Jasinowski

Isabel most recently served as Vice President and Corporate Officer for Goodyear. She headed government relations for Goodyear’s Washington, D.C., office since 1995 and served as the company’s senior lobbyist.

Prior to Goodyear, Isabel set up and ran the office of Business Liaison at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Having started her career as director of local issues for Gov. Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign, she has more than 25 years of government relations and Capitol Hill experience.

Isabel holds a BA in political science from Barnard College and a Master’s from Columbia University.

Norm Schneider, JD

Norm is a partner at the Kamerow Law Firm.

He has been on the Board of Woodley House since 1994, serving as President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and as an At-Large member of the Executive Committee.

Norm first became acquainted with Woodley House when his father, psychiatrist Irv Schneider, referred the first patient to the nascent Woodley House in 1959. Norm fondly remembers picking cherries from high up in founder Joan Doniger’s backyard for the luscious cherry pies she used to make for Woodley House events.

Trained as an historian and then as a lawyer, he’s one of the few people who can truly say that he has worked with all Executive Directors of Woodley House–Joan Doniger, Edee Maeda, Debra Young, Gary Frye, and now Ann Chauvin–and he has brought both skills to the organization. He was President of the Board when the movie benefit was inaugurated with the premier of “Titanic,” a reception at the Vice President’s house, and the screening at the Uptown Theater.

Shannon Attanasio

Shannon is Senior Vice President of Government Relations, Policy & Advocacy at Medicaid Health Plans of America (MHPA). In this role, she represents MHPA and the managed care industry before Congress and the administration, states, and other key health care policy stakeholders. Ms. Attanasio leads all policy development for the association.

Prior to joining MHPA, she led Government Affairs at Families USA, a leading national, non-partisan organization representing the interests of health care consumers. Before that, she spent time at a boutique health care and aging policy consulting firm and worked on national and state political campaigns.

Ms. Attanasio holds a BA in Political Science from Roger Williams University and an MA in Government from Johns Hopkins University.

Kelley Barnaby, JD

Kelley is an attorney focused on consumer protection and unfair competition litigation and counseling. She has extensive litigation experience representing clients as both plaintiff and defendant in state and federal courts, in arbitration, and in front of state regulators.

Kelley was honored with the 2015 Burton Award for Legal Achievement for co-authoring “Cybersecurity: What Directors Need to Know in an Era of Increased Scrutiny.”

After law school, Kelley clerked for the Honorable John G. Heyburn II in the Western District of Kentucky.

She is recognized as a Washington, DC, Super Lawyer Rising Star in the field of business litigation.

Debra Barrett

Debra is founder of Barrett Strategic LLC, a strategic consulting, public and government affairs, and executive coaching firm.

Previously, she was SVP Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at Teva Pharmaceuticals where she directed advocacy and policy development. Before joining Teva, Debra was an assignment editor at CNN after beginning her career on Capitol Hill.

Debra holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and a Master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Jeanine Boyle, JD, MPH

Jeanine is President at Rock Creek Policy Advisors.

Previously, she served as Vice President of Corporate Government Affairs and Health Policy at Magellan Health. She also directed federal and state policy in roles she held at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and PhRMA.

Jeanine holds a BA from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Public Health with a concentration in law and public health from Harvard University, and a JD from Tulane University.

Sunil Chhabra

Sunil is the Senior Managing Partner and co-founder of ONE Street Commercial Properties, a D.C.-based real estate firm. Sunil manages ONE Street’s robust multifamily development portfolio, ranging from market-rate to affordable housing.

The son of immigrant parents, Sunil is a native Washingtonian who attended college locally at Marymount University. He has tremendous love for the city that his given him everything.

Outside of real estate, Sunil has invested in technology startups, an organic food company, and Grace Street Coffee Roasters.

Sunil is also a commissioner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

Matthew Hoffman, JD

Matthew is an Attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.

Previously he served as Partner at Goodwin Proctor.

Matthew holds a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Yale University.

He is the nephew of Woodley House founder, Joan Doniger.

Dave Joseph

Dave currently is serving as the Care and Counseling Pastor at Grace Community Church in Fulton, MD.

Before Grace, Dave worked as the Minister of Family Life at The People’s Community Baptist Church in Silver Spring and worked as a missionary in Northern Canada, Saskatchewan.

Dave completed his degrees in counseling and theology at Liberty University and Capital Bible Seminary. He has written two children’s books.

Vincent Keane

Vincent is the former President/CEO of Unity Health Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and non-profit organization that provides primary health care, psycho-social services, and mental health care to the medically underserved in Washington, DC.

Vincent has long been involved in the development of national health care policy as it addresses the needs of the medically underserved and poverty communities.

Vincent was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and was educated at All Hallows College Dublin where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and a Master’s of Divinity (M.Div.).

Dina Moussa

Dina is Special Counsel in the Chief Counsel Branch of the Market Participants Division at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Immediately prior, she served as a judicial law clerk with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Dina started with Woodley House as a volunteer with the Junior League of Washington, where she has been the vice chair of the Community Training Committee for the past two years.

Since joining the Board, she has served on both the Finance and Development Committees.

In addition to her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, she holds a B.A. in Government from Wesleyan University.

Linda Parisi

Linda grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Texas in 1976 to join the Houston Grand Opera fundraising team. In 1982, she, and her family moved to Washington, DC, for a career opportunity for her husband and to be closer to Linda’s family. Linda worked with Washington Performing Arts Society in DC and then SOME (So Others Might Eat), where she served as Chief Development Officer, leading the fundraising efforts to raise $22 million+ annually and to oversee marketing, and communications.

She has served in various fundraising capacities at four non profit organizations for more than 25 years.

Jillian Smith Fielder

Jillian is a management consultant with Metis Strategy.

Immediately prior, she was a Manager with MetaPhase Consulting.

Jillian first came to Woodley House in 2021 as a business professional volunteer on our Compass team, helping develop our strategic plan for fundraising and marketing. She also was responsible for starting Woodley House’s now-annual 5K Run, Walk & Roll.

She earned her Master of Management degree in Technical Operations and Strategy from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and received her B.A. in International Studies and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan as well.