Membership Director

2023-2025

Lali Watt has served in various capacities with the League of Women Voters for over twenty years at the local, county, state and national levels. In addition to serving on LWV Chicago’s Board of Directors, she currently co-chairs the Audit Committee of LWVUS and LWVEF.

Lali has over thirty years of wide-ranging experience in Public Accounting, nonprofit organizations and with a multi-national Corporation. She is multi-lingual and multi-cultural, having lived and studied in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

Lali has extensive experience in developing nonprofit boards, strategic planning, communication plans and training. She has served as a local elected official and lead a successful grassroots referendum effort to save a historic building and open land. Lali is passionate about leveraging ideas to build communities and improve people’s lives and is particularly interested in social entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships.

Lali was named a “Pathfinder CPA” by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and honored as an Unsung Heroine by the Cook County Commission. She has presented programs on being a locavore, traveling, and leveraging community feedback to affect local government.