Tracie M. Jenkins, PhD serves as Secretary of the Steering Committee of Georgia Women (And Those Who Stand With Us) because she is a wife, mother, grandmother, scientist, and person of faith who believes, like those with whom she serves, that in diversity there is strength and in a strong representative democracy there is hope. Tracie is a UGA Emerita Associate Professor in Insect Genetics and graduate of the University of the South’s Education for Ministry (EFM) four-year certificate program in theological education. She is a master gardener who spends as much time as possible in her pesticide and insecticide free garden cultivating plants and the good insects that look after them. Herbs from her garden are often, therefore, sampled when pulled from the soil. As an amateur nature photographer, she captures the myriad creatures around her. She also documents the life in, around, and flying over her garden to demonstrate how poison-free environs thrive. This she records in her blog, “lifethroughtheseasons.blogspot.com”.  Yes, Tracie, like Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor of Kevlar, thinks “all sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.”

Marty Koplin, co-president of Georgia Women, is a native of Richmond, Virginia but her educational endeavors brought her to the University of Georgia where she earned a BS in Family Development. 

Since moving to Macon in 1982 with her husband, Evan, Marty has worked in the non-profit community in Middle Georgia. Planting her roots of advocacy early on, she served as the Coordinator of the Sexual Assault Victim Assistance Program for Crisis Line of Macon & Bibb County and as Director of Kids Voting Georgia/Bibb County. Marty’s passion for education and for the Middle GA community were further informed by her work as an Educational Consultant with Discovery Toys and most recently as an Executive Assistant with Macon Economic Development Commission, part of the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce.

Marty has devoted her time to serving on the boards of Congregation Sha’arey Israel synagogue, Leadership Macon and the Georgia Children’s Museum. Reading, cooking, hanging out with her 3 fierce daughters, attending concerts and traveling are Marty’s favorite past-times but Georgia Women (And Those Whose Stand With Us) has enabled Marty to become an ‘accidental activist’ tying together all of her passions, empowering women to speak truth to power.

Nyonnohweah Seekie was introduced to Georgia Women in 2018, when she attended a Rapid Response Training event to assist as a hotline operator and interpreter responding to non-emergency needs of immigrants. Her interest in voter education led her to being involved with many Georgia Women civic engagement initiatives.

Nyonnohweah is the owner of The Seekie Law Firm, LLC, a criminal defense and immigration firm located in downtown Macon. She is a first-generation Liberian-American and a graduate of Georgia Southern University, Widener University and Mercer University School of Law.

Attorney Seekie is devoted to counseling clients through the arduous territory of criminal prosecution and immigration, responsible for various cases including: Visa petitions, naturalizations, misdemeanors, felonies, federal crimes, post-conviction representation and more.

In the community, Nyonnohweah is an avid volunteer for Macon and Middle Georgia. She is an active member of the State Bar of Georgia, Young Lawyers Division; Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA); Macon Chapter of Junior League; the Area Vice President of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Board Member/Secretary for the Georgia Legal Services Program. Nyonnohweah is married to her loving husband Cecil, and together they enjoy spending time with family and friends, serving their community, worshipping at Lundy Chapel Baptist Church, and traveling with their adorable dog.