Mary Riley Styles Public Library Foundation Board 2024-2025

BILL DOUTHITT
Board Member

MEGAN DOTZLER
Library Director

As Science Magazine’s Photography Managing Editor, Bill Douthitt transformed the publication’s picture use, hiring top photographers around the world to create hundreds of striking covers and features
depicting cutting edge science advances. Before joining Science, Bill was National Geographic Magazine’s Managing Editor for Special Editions, producing award-winning single-subject issues on
exploration, space, wildlife, climate, energy and history. Over his National Geographic career, Bill worked as a designer, photographer, writer, and editor. He picture-edited over 200 stories, wrote the cover story on the Cassini Saturn mission, and managed the Millennium Project—a 500-page series of stories
exploring key 21 st century issues including population, biodiversity, climate, and science frontiers. Bill also created the EarthPulse project, National Geographic’s first organization-wide initiative that focused the print, television and digital divisions on producing environmental stories on a common theme. Bill has
a Bachelors degree in communications from the University of Washington, a Masters degree in science writing from Johns Hopkins University, and has studied magazine and multimedia management at Stanford University. He has taught visual storytelling at the Maine Media Workshops as well as photography, science journalism, and news writing at the Corcoran School of Art, George Mason University and George Washington University.

Megan joined the Mary Riley Styles Public Library as Director in 2024.  Megan previously worked for the Arlington Public Library in Arlington, Virginia, where she was head of Central Library youth services and before that branch manager for Arlington’s Aurora Hills location. Before moving to Virginia, Megan was the assistant director of the Memorial Library in Acton, Massachusetts. Megan earned her dual master's degree in children’s literature and library science from Simmons College in Massachusetts. She loves being a librarian, where everyday she gets to champion the power of stories!
   

CATHERINE McCORMICK
Board Member

KAREN KASMAUSKI
Board Member

Catherine worked with students and adults on transition, job search strategies and retirement planning as a Counselor and Career Development and Transition professional for close to 40 years, at several universities and the Department of
State. She served as the Director of the Career Transition Center, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State from 2010 – 2023. Currently Catherine is a Board member for the Mary Riley Styles Public Library Foundation, a volunteer, and a member
of Encore Learning. She is devoted to promoting educational opportunities and lifelong learning. A highlight of her first few months of retirement was a trip to Iceland with Road
Scholar. She looks forward to additional travel, to supporting the growth of her two grandchildren and to spending a lot of time with her five siblings and their families.

Award-winning photographer Karen Kasmauski has photographed 25 major stories for National Geographic Magazine. Karen has worked in over 50 countries, covering earthquakes in Japan and oil
workers on Alaska’s frozen north slope. She has flown over nuclear weapon test sites, and ventured into Russian prisons, followed families displaced by conflict in Africa, and documented disease outbreaks in the Amazon. Her award-winning book “NURSE: A World of Care,” explores global issues facing the nursing profession and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Karen’s previous book “IMPACT: From the Front Lines of Global Health” looks at the causes of infectious diseases throughout the world. Former
President Jimmy Carter wrote introductions for both books. The daughter of a Japanese war bride, Karen explored her roots in producing the 2015 documentary film “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight—The Japanese War Brides,” which broadcast globally on BBC. Karen has taught photography and video storytelling at the Corcoran School of Art, George Mason University, and the Maine Media Workshops. Afirst-prize winner in the prestigious Pictures of the Year competition, Karen’s photographs have been
exhibited at National Geographic’s headquarters, the United States Capitol, the National Academy of Sciences, the Newseum, the Carter Center, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She has a Bachelors degree with dual majors in anthropology and religion from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree in media management from Ohio University.

AIMEE MORGAN
Chair
2024-2027

Aimee Morgan graduated from The University of Virginia in 2015 with a B.A. in English. She has since worked as a children’s librarian’s assistant, a preschool teacher, and a registered nurse. She is thrilled to be serving her community’s library again! Aimee lives just over the Falls Church border in Arlington with her husband, Patrick, and their terrier-dachshund mix, Scarlett. Aimee is expecting her first child, a little boy, in Fall 2023. She hopes her son loves MRSPL as much as she does!  

ANDREW A. PAINTER
Vice Chair
2022-2025

Andrew A. Painter is a partner with Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley & Walsh, P.C., a Northern Virginia land use law firm.  Andrew has spent much time traveling and writing about Virginia’s land development and viticultural history.  He received an award from the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association for his review of enduring rural landscapes in Fairfax County.  Andrew has served as an adjunct professor of political science at both the University of Richmond and the University of Mary Washington. He is a member of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Celebrate Fairfax, Inc. Board of Directors, the Home Builders of Virginia Board of Directors, the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association Board of Directors, and the Fairfax County Agricultural and Forestal District Advisory Committee. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Mary Washington College, a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia, and a juris doctor from the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law. Andrew is the author of a 2018 book chronicling the history of the Virginia wine industry, Virginia Wine: Four Centuries of Change, published by George Mason University Press and distributed by the University of Virginia Press. He and his wife, Mary Anne, founded Falls City Threads, a local t-shirt company celebrating local Falls Church scenes. They reside in the Greenway Downs neighborhood of Falls Church, and have a daughter and twin boys.​

                    TAHIR QAMAR
                                 Treasurer
                                 2023-2026

Tahir Qamar moved to Falls Church in February 2022 from Pakistan, where he worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as a Chief Accountant and Acting Deputy Controller. He brings 25 years of financial management expertise to the MRSPL Foundation! Mr. Qamar has experience with budget development, budget analysis, budget variances, audit management, internal control, and fiscal year-end procedures. He has supervised the day-to-day operations of payment, accounting, and payroll staff, and was the recipient of several service awards for outstanding contributions to his USAID office. Mr. Qamar now works for the National Academy of Sciences as a Financial Business Partner. ​

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