WID Appoints National Council Members, Liberty Chapter President.

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* Women In Defense, an affiliate of the National Defense Industrial Association, has selected four new members to join its national council, the organization announced in October.

Those selected include Gretchen Larsen Idsinga, Rachel Link, Belinda Marinella and Sue Schweim Tellier.

"I'm grateful and excited to have these exemplary women on my team," said Rachel McCaffrey, WID's executive director. The national council supports the executive director in leading the organization and advancing its goals. These women "bring years of professional experiences in such diverse areas that they will broaden WID's vision and set goals we had never thought possible."

Idsinga is WID's new national council chair. She is a principal of Endeavor Worldwide, an international advisory firm based in Vienna, Virginia. Idsinga has led growth organizations across public, private and private equity-owned companies, where she specialized in analyzing and renovating strategies, building business infrastructure and leading multiples of increased sales. She served 20 years in the Air Force in intelligence and special operations. She previously was WID's vice chair of the national council.

Link is director of strategy and communication at Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic in Charleston, South Carolina, where she oversees strategy development, planning and measurement, internal and external communications and enterprise change transformation. Previously, she was vice president of client services for Maga Design of Washington, D.C Link has also served as president of WID's Palmetto Chapter in South Carolina.

Marinella is a senior associate at...