Leather Leadership Conference, Inc.

Current Board \| Emeritus Board Members \| Contact the Board \| Nominations
The Leather Leadership Conference, Inc. Board of Directors is comprised of nine members. To maintain leadership and continuity, their terms will expire on a rotating basis, with three terms expiring each year - three for a one-year term, three for a two-year term, and three for a three-year term. Current board members will elect future boards. Each year at the Leather Leadership Conference there is a call for nominations.
Current Board

Herb Kaylor
Herb Kaylor has been in the Washington DC leather community for more than 15 years. He has spent 10 years in the Highwaymen TNT, a local Leather/Levi group, and has served with numerous other organizations such as Brother Help Thyself and the Scarlet's Foundation.
RampartDom
RampartDom is a cofounder of New Orleans Bondage and Leather Enthusiasts (N.O.B.L.E.) and is an elected member of its governing Council of Officers. He is a planner and presenter for the FETISH! series of lectures on BDSM and related topics, and a volunteer with both the Lesbian and Gay Community Center of New Orleans and with the Hate Crimes Project. Trained as a historian, he has a particular interest in the process by which marginalized groups gain power in society, and his history of political and social activism reaches back to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. Having first entered the scene as a bottom, and then trained as a submissive, his role has since evolved into that of Dominant, and he presently shares his Leather path with a man who is submissive to him.
Larry Manion
Larry is a founding member of St. Louis Leather & Lace, and has been an officer and Board member for each of its seven years of existence including four terms as Chairperson. He is a four term Chair or Co-Chair of Beat Me in St. Louis, and a three term Chair or Co-Chair of Spanksgiving in St. Louis. He has served at St. Louis Leather & Lace's representative on NCSF's National Board, and as an NCSF staff member and NCSF LEOP presenter from 2000 to the present. Larry has attended LLC each year from San Francisco in 1999 to the present. Larry has presented on various legal-related SM issues throughout the midwest as well as at LLC 4 and LLC 5. Larry and his local group have benefited tremendously from the information learned and the contacts made at LLC 3, 4, 5 and 6. He has joined the LLC Inc. Board in order to help pass those benefits along to others both in the midwest and throughout the country.
Glenda Rider
Glenda Rider dates her participation in the "organized scene" back to the National Lesbian Conference held in Atlanta in April of 1991. Connections were made there which led to her co-founding Lesborados in Washington, DC a few months later, and indirectly, to her becoming the first woman to hold an Eagle Bar title as Ms. Baltimore Eagle 1992. She tries to live by the Play House motto: Make Play Happen. For more information on Ms. Rider, click here!
Graylin Thornton
	Graylin K. Thornton, known as sigma to his leather family currently resides in San Francisco, CA where he is employed as a video director and associate editor of International Leatherman/Powerplay magazine. In 1999, Graylin Thornton was a member of the Leather Leadership Committee of San Francisco. Recently he was featured in Frontiers Newsmagazine's Black History edition and has written articles on black history and sexual stereotypes for that and other publications. Currently, Thornton is actively involved with Project Open Hand and is a board member of New Leaf Services for the Community in San Francisco. He was also recently voted an associate member of the Chicago Hellfire Club and is the proud slave of John Bertsch (Alpha) of San Diego, CA. For more information on Graylin Thornton, click here!
Libby Warren
Libby has been in the scene since 1992 when she met John in NYC. After getting involved in some TES meetings she wanted to help build a similar BDSM community in Boston. Libby, together with John, founded The Boston Dungeon Society and has been instrumental in sheparding BDS from a local bbs into a member run incorporated non-profit BDSM group. She is the guiding light that has developed BDS into the largest and most active group in the Boston area. Libby is active in the Boston scene as an educator, leader and an organizer slut and is an inspirational leader of volunteers. She is also well known for giving great parties. For more information about Ms. Warren, click here!
Lolita Wolf
	Lolita Wolf loves to play, play, play but is also an activist and an educator who has shared her knowledge at groups and events around the country. Living in NYC, she is Board Emeritus of The Eulenspiegel Society (TES) and Lesbian Sex Mafia's Communications Officer. She is active with Leather Pride Night and National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and publishes the "P+P," a free weekly SM newsletter. She is also proud to be an honorary member of GMSMA. A six year old Princess who lies about her age, Lolita manages to stir up trouble and get her own way (most of the time).
Cynthia Wright
	You may know Cynthia for her presentation skills within the community but she also brings a unique set of skills to the Board as well. Cynthia has spent a number of years previously running her own successful business as a fundraiser and coordinator of special events for non-profit organizations. She has successfully produced fundraising campaigns for many southern California organizations mostly related to law enforcement and firefighter organizations. Cynthia founded and managed a non-profit organization that was dedicated to assisting women recovering from drug and alcohol abuse and other life issues. Her organizational skills are an asset to our Board. For more information on Ms. Wright, click here!
Emeritus Board Members
John Weis - Founder of Leather Leadership Conference and served as board member and chairman.
Jack McGeorge - Served as board member 2000- 2002; he was very instrumental in LLC's incorporation.

Nomination Process
Every year at the Leather Leadership Conference there is a call for nominations to serve on the Board of Directors. Community members interested in serving on the LLC board should complete the board application. Each year during the annual conference there will be a time set aside for the current board to meet with prospecitive board members to describe board members duties and responsibilities, and to answer any questions that prospective board members may have. Interested prospective board members may submit an application (self-nominate) as early as January 1. All prospective board members should have the application in by two weeks following the annual meeting, which is in late March or early April. New board members assume office on July 1.