Experience: Cecilia Guthrie Boone is the President of the Boone Family Foundation in Dallas Texas. An active volunteer and philanthropist, she has focused her work on issues that most effect women and girls. She is the past chair of the Dallas Women’s Foundation, Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas, Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Planned Parenthood of North Texas Action Fund and Annie’s List, a PAC that recruits, trains and funds progressive female candidates running for state-wide office in Texas. Currently she the fundraising chair of the Dallas Women’s Foundation thirty million dollar campaign. She is a member of the national Planned Parenthood Federation of America board, the Harvard-Kennedy School Women’s Leadership Board and the international Women’s Funding Network board. In Dallas, she is on the Dallas County Community College Foundation board, the KERA board, the Parkland Hospital Foundation Steering Committee and the Southwestern Medical Foundation board. Additionally, she is an adjunct faculty member at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. In 2009, Cecilia received the Susan B. Anthony award from the League of Women Voters. She and her husband, Garrett, were also awarded the Humanitarian of the Year Award by Planned Parenthood of North Texas. In her next life, Cecilia hopes to do more reading and more quilting.