Lois Beekman is a New York based activist with a strong interest
in family violence and related issues. She is Chair of the
National Advisory Board of Darkness to Light, Chair of the Women’s
Advisory Committee of The Michael Bolton Charities, Chair of the
Advisory Board of DAYENU!, the Domestic Violence Initiative of the
New York Board of Rabbis, Chair of the Advisory Committee of
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Founder of the
Law Student Competition at the American Bar Association’s
Commission on Domestic Violence and Founder of the New York Board
of Rabbi’s Student Competition. She has also served as
an advisor to The Retreat, the domestic violence organization
serving the New York area from Eastern Long Island.
A marketing and communications strategist, she has participated in
many “think tanks” and has developed several new consumer products
and services. She has been a media spokesperson for The
Campbell Soup Company and Lord & Taylor, an editor at Good
Housekeeping Magazine, an adjunct Professor of Communications at
The Fashion Institute of Technology, co-director of SPICE, the New
York State Project to Implement Career Education and founder of The
Parent Initiative of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She
is the co-author of a text on public relations and has packaged
several books on issues related to parenting. She is the president
of Art with a Heart, an art/charity initiative.
Lois has also served as a trustee of Barnard College, Columbia
University, a trustee of the New York Board of CARE, a member of
the Board of Directors of the 92nd Street Y, a member of the
Advisory Board of the Tampa Performing Arts Center and is the
founder of the Southampton Cultural Center. She has also served on
marketing and development committees of several other non-profit
organizations.
She is the recipient of several citations and awards for her work
to reduce family violence and child sexual abuse.