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YEO Bios
Emma Pinter
City Councilor

Westminster, Colorado
City Councilor Emma Pinter was elected to Westminster City Council in
November 2013. She is a small business owner of a technology company.
She serves on the Westminster Board of Building Code Appeals and is a
graduate of the Westminster Citizen Fire Academy. Pinter is also the former
president of the Westminster Mom’s Club and served on the committee for
the Colorado Bar Association high school mock trial competition.
@ehpinter

Meshea L. Poore
State Delegate

Charleston, West Virginia
Meshea L. Poore was sworn into the West Virginia House of Delegates in
2010. She received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Howard
University in Washington, D.C. While in the nation’s capital, Delegate Poore
worked for Congressman James E. Clyburn of South Carolina and interned
at her party’s national committee. She went on to obtain a J.D. from the
Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Poore returned
to West Virginia in 2004 and began working as a public defender for Kanawha County. She left the
public defender’s office in November 2009 and is now the sole practitioner and owner of The Law
Office of Meshea L. Poore. Poore is the vice president of the West Virginia State Bar and a member
of the Alabama State Bar Association. @MesheaPoore

Britani Potter

School Board Member
Ottawa, Kansas

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Britani Potter is serving her first term on the USD 290 school board (Ottawa,
KS). She has been active in her community for many years through school
site councils, advisory boards, coaching youth recreation sports, and other
volunteer activities. She is married to David Potter and is currently staying
home with her three sons while she works on a master’s degree in family
financial planning. She holds a KS Funeral Director/Embalmer license and
a KS Insurance Producer license. She has earned three associates degrees from local community
colleges and a bachelor’s in business administration degree from Baker University. She is working to
change the culture in her community to support and encourage quality educational opportunities for
community members, regardless of their situation, through both traditional and nontraditional routes.
She believes education is the foundation of life and that what we don’t know today, we hope to learn
tomorrow.