A writer and lifelong social and political activist, Donna K. Lauderdale is Assistant to the President of Strategic Investment Group. Ms. Lauderdale has a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Mississippi State University. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Virginia and authored and edited publications as a freelance public relations and technical writer. A former public school teacher of math and science at the secondary and college level, she has served on the board of directors for Occoquan Swimming, Home Educators of Virginia and Concerned Women for America of Virginia.