MEET OUR Board of Directors

Tazeen Ahmad is the Chief Financial Officer at Capitol Hill Consulting Group.  In this role, she manages the firm’s financial strategy, financial planning and analysis, financial reports, company audits, compliance, and bank relationships.  She is also responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local campaign finance and election laws for the firm.

Tazeen has been a lifelong advocate of issues of importance to women and over the years has worked in leadership positions with many nonprofit organizations that serve women and children. In April 2019, she and her daughter, Marium, co-founded Up 2 Us Foundation, a Maryland nonprofit addressing food insecurity in Maryland and Washington, DC.  She currently serves as the board chair.  Tazeen also serves on the Board of Directors at Interfaith Works, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides emergency shelter, supportive housing, essential needs, and employment programs to over 35,000 residents of Montgomery County, MD, every year.

In August 2020, Tazeen was named as one of the Maryland Commission for Women's 100 Maryland Sheroes for her work in distributing food to Covid impacted families. During  women’s history month, in 2021, she was a Women Making History honoree in Montgomery County.

Previously Tazeen served as a Commissioner on the Montgomery County Commission for Women from 2018 to 2021. While at the CFW, she co-chaired the 2020 Women’s Legislative Briefing and was on the Policy and Legislation Committee.  Before her time on the Commission, she was on Montgomery County’s Victims Services Advisory Board and served as the board chair during her term there.  Her time on VSAB gave her a deeper understanding not only of issues faced by victims of crime and their families but also policies that impact the criminal justice system and our community at-large with a specific focus on domestic violence and sexual assault.

Susan Golonka spent her career in federal and state policy and program administration focusing on child and family poverty, low income working families, employment and training, and child welfare. For almost two decades, she worked at the National Governors Association, representing governors to Congress and working with governors and their senior officials to develop effective state programs and policies to improve outcomes for children and families. She closed out her career as Deputy Director of the Office of Family Assistance, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. 

Susan currently serves on the board of Washington Women Outdoors, which helps women develop skills and experience the outdoors in a supportive environment. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Hasan is a board-certified and double fellowship-trained Orthopaedic surgeon specializing in shoulder and elbow surgery and sports medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and a member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society.

Dr. Hasan specializes in all problems relating to the shoulder and elbow, including reverse shoulder arthroplasty, traditional total shoulder replacement, and elbow replacement surgery. 

He has extensive experience in treating sports injuries of the shoulder and elbow and has sub-specialty Board certification in sports medicine with expertise in minimally invasive operations such as arthroscopic rotator cuff repair and arthroscopic stabilization procedures for the recurrent dislocating shoulder as well as extensive experience with open stabilization procedures for the shoulder such as the Latarjet procedure.

Other areas of clinical expertise include elbow arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction, fracture fixation and post-traumatic reconstruction of the shoulder and elbow, as well as nerve decompression.

Dr. Hasan's research interests include basic science investigation of rotator cuff healing, computer-aided navigation for shoulder replacement surgery, rotator cuff repair techniques and elbow surgery outcomes.

Barbara is a practicing attorney in Washington DC, and is founder and owner of Eyman Associates, a boutique law firm focusing on health law and policy. She left a partnership in a large, international law firm in 2011 to launch the firm to pursue her work with clients providing access to care to low income and other vulnerable populations, and has a particular expertise in the Medicaid program.   With food insecurity being such a driver of poor health outcomes, Barbara’s role with the Up 2 Us Foundation is a natural complement to her professional pursuits. Barbara and her husband Robert Antonisse have lived in Silver Spring since 1992. They have three adult children and a not-so-adult dog.  

Paola is an Associate at Fulcrum Public Affairs. She joined Fulcrum in July 2023, with experience as a Government Affairs Associate in the tech industry, where she focused on advancing digital equity initiatives and workforce development policies. Paola also served as a Legal Assistant at the State Farm Litigation Counsel Office, where she supported two Circuit Court attorneys. 

During her college years, Paola interned at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia and at the Capitol Hill Consulting Group, gaining valuable insights into a variety of legal and policy matters, particularly in health care and the role of PROMESA in Puerto Rico during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, she interned at the Office of the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon. A proud native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Paola holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in French from American University.