Margaret Bates attended graduate school at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, where she studied developmental psychology with an emphasis in autism and developmental disabilities. Currently, she is working on her certification as a medical Spanish interpreter in the Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. She was drawn to Legendary Women, Inc. by a desire to help highlight positive role models for women her age and younger in a sea of oversaturated media.
ELIZABETH DE RAZZO is a native of Laredo, Texas, she always knew she wanted to be a performer from an early age. After moving to Los Angeles in her late teens, Elizabeth began pursuing her career in earnest, dividing her time between theater and the small screen. Elizabeth was able to incorporate her first love, singing, in her co-starring role as Estella in the stage production of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical. She enjoyed featured parts in The West Wing and Six Feet Under; co-starring roles in ER, United States of Tara and Southland, and a guest starring role on Cold Case (that still gets her recognized to this day).
Fall of 2010, Elizabeth joined the cast of HBO's Eastbound & Down as Maria. In addition to her busy acting schedule, Elizabeth co-founded the non-profit, IBG Inc. IBG, based in Los Angeles, focuses on utilizing the power of philanthropy through the arts to benefit a wide range of organizations worldwide. IBG acts as a "fundraiser facilitator" for underfunded and start-up charities that would otherwise struggle with the logistics and costs associated with event fundraising.
Carolyn West is a writer with over 20 published short stories and plays. She has served on the board of the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia and been a judge for the Southern Carolina Writers Workshop's annual anthology. It is her belief that cultural change starts at an individual level and it's up to each one of us to find and or create the role models that will inspire future generations of women.
Corina N. Lombardi-Adamousky is a writer and an Undergraduate student in English with a concentration in Journalism at Rutgers University. She served as Editor-in-chief of ‘Quo Vadis’, Middlesex County College’s school newspaper, for one year and won several awards for pieces she wrote including an award from the N.J. Press Association for her piece on a female soldier from Iraq. She’s had over 100 articles and or written works published in the newspaper, magazines, and online. She was drawn to Legendary Women, Inc. by a desire to help inform women of all ages that they have the power and ability to accomplish anything they put their mind to no matter their place in life.
Mindy Haltiwanger is an aspiring screenwriter working toward her Masters of Arts in Professional Writing at Kennesaw State University. She looks forward to writing more positive female roles for screen and television.
Geneva Canino is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston in Composition, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy. Her research interests include writing center and activist pedagogies, disability studies, composition/rhetoric, creative writing, queer and gender theory, and extracurricular writing communities. It is her belief that the media can and should do better by women and minorities, and as power is complex and multiple, resistance to harmful representations can and will come from many places. LWInc. is but one of the sites that has taken up this cause.
Morgan Glennon is a working journalist who researches and performs interviews with a variety of newsmakers. She is also a freelance writer specializing in television and entertainment coverage. Her writing can be found at her blog Morgan Writes. She believes that the portrayal of women in the media is important for guiding the dreams and careers paths of future generations of young women.
April Walsh is a professional singer, working primarily in Laguna Beach, CA. In her spare time, she is active in several fandoms and forever hopes television reaches a place where no one has to argue for better representation of women.
Verushka is a nerd, with a book and coffee addiction that shows no signs of abating. She reviews supernatural television shows and books for Open Book Society, as well as interviewing some of her favorite authors.
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