HEMPSTEAD, NY (June 22, 2021)—Girl Scouts of Nassau County recently elected its Board of Directors Officers, Board of Directors Members-at-Large, and Board Development Committee for the 2021-2023 term during its 56th Annual Meeting. Board Members include Lasherelle Morgan, who was elected to serve as a Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors. The new board consists of life-long Girl Scouts, community leaders, nonprofit and corporative executives, and many other board veterans. In her role, Ms. Morgan will serve the mission to provide leadership, innovation, and constant support to the Girl Scouts of Nassau County Council.
"We are very grateful to have many of our past Board of Directors join us for another term and welcome aboard several new members including Lasherelle Morgan, who we believe will make wonderful additions to our Board of Directors," said Randell M. Bynum, CEO of Girl Scouts of Nassau County. "This outstanding group of professionals will be invaluable to our organization as we continue to improve the lives of Girl Scouts in Nassau County."
Ms. Morgan is the senior corporate counsel at Amazon Studios, where
she supports original film and movie productions for Latin America and
Japan.
Previously, she was the senior vice president and
associate general counsel at Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSG)
and led the entertainment legal team in structuring and advising on
production deals for the MSG Sphere venue in Las Vegas as well as for
the expansion of the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City
Rockettes. Throughout her 20 years of experience as a media and
entertainment attorney— encompassing premium television, film,
theatrical and audio content—Ms. Morgan strategically negotiated
hundreds of deals in connection with the acquisition, development,
production, and distribution of original and licensed content.
Prior to MSG, Ms. Morgan led the original audio content legal team at
Audible (an Amazon company) as senior corporate counsel and head of
content legal. Before joining Audible, she served as vice president,
business and legal affairs at Viacom Media Networks, where she
supported unscripted and digital original programming, and head of
business and legal affairs at EPIX (a joint venture of Paramount,
Lionsgate, and MGM), where she managed all business and legal affairs
matters in connection with theatricals and original programming. Ms.
Morgan also held legal and business affairs roles at HBO and Food
Network, respectively, after beginning her legal career as a mergers
and acquisitions attorney at the international law firm of Latham and
Watkins.
Ms. Morgan is a member of California and the New York
State Bar and is a proud graduate of Clark Atlanta University and
Columbia Law School. She was born and raised in Los Angeles,
California but has happily lived on Long Island, New York, for the
past 15 years with her husband and two children.
To learn
more about Girl Scouts of Nassau County, visit www.gsnc.org/.
We’re the Girl Scouts of Nassau County: We’re 21,000
strong – more than 16,000 girls and 5,000 adults who believe in the
power of every G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™
from Nassau County to change the world. Our extraordinary journey
began more than 100 years ago with the original G.I.R.L., Juliette
Gordon “Daisy” Low. On March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia, she
organized the very first Girl Scout Troop, and every year since, we’ve
honored her vision and legacy, building girls of courage, confidence,
and character who make the world a better place. We’re the preeminent
leadership development organization for girls. And with programs in
Nassau County, across Long Island and throughout the United States and
across the globe, Girl Scouts offers every girl a chance to practice a
lifetime of leadership, adventure, and success.
