Foundation Board member Cathy McCormick prepares fruits and snacks for Library workers during Library Appreciation Week in April.
Who We Are
The Foundation as we know it dates back to 2015, when it was incorporated as a 501(3)(c) corporation to raise money to support the library's events, programs, and acquisitions. Since 2020, it has been recognizing library staff with the Chet DeLong Award.
Currently six board members and the library director meet monthly to plan fundraising activities and other events to support the library. The Foundation is currently seeking someone to join the Board as Secretary.
Meet the 2024–2027 Board of Directors
AIMEE MORGAN
Chair
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, their son and their terrier-dachshund mix, Scarlett. She hopes her son loves MRSPL as much as she does.
ANDREW A. PAINTER
Vice Chair
Andrew Painter is a partner with Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley & Walsh, P.C., a Northern Virginia land use law firm.
Andrew serves on multiple local boards of directors, including for the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and Celebrate Fairfax, Inc.
Andrew holds a B.A. in Political Science, a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning, and a juris doctor from the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law. He is the author of a 2018 book chronicling the history of the Virginia wine industry, Virginia Wine: Four Centuries of Change.
He and his wife, Mary Anne, founded Falls City Threads, a local t-shirt company celebrating local Falls Church scenes.
TAHIR QAMAR
Treasurer
Tahir Qamar brings to bear 25 years of financial management to his role as Treasurer.
Tahir 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.
Tahir 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 received several service awards for outstanding contributions to his USAID office.
He currently works for the National Academy of Sciences as a Financial Business Partner.
CATHERINE McCORMICK
Board Member
Catherine McCormick, Ph.D., joined the Board following nearly 40 years of working with students and adults on transition, job search strategies, and retirement planning as a counselor and career development and transition professional.
She served as the Director of the Career Transition Center, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State 2010–2023, before retiring.
Besides serving on the Board, Catherine is 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.
BILL DOUTHITT
Board Member
Bill Douthitt brings decades of experience in print and digital content production to his role, and oversees the Foundation’s website.
As Science magazine’s photography Managing Editor, Bill 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.
As Managing Editor for Special Editions at National Geographic, Bill produced award-winning single-subject issues on exploration, space, wildlife, climate, energy, and history.
Bill has a B.A. in communications, a Master’s degree in science writing, 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.
KAREN KASMAUSKI
Board Member
Karen Kasmauski has won numerous awards for her photography, covering more than two dozen 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 written two books. Her award-winning book NURSE: A World of Care, explored 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 looked 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.
She has a B.A. with dual majors in anthropology and religion from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in media management from Ohio University.
MEGHAN DOTZLER
Library Director
Megan Dotzler joined the Mary Riley Styles Public Library as Director in 2024.
She 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 every day she gets to champion the power of stories!