Our Staff

Annabel is the Communications and Development Manager at WCPI.

Before joining WCPI, Annabel worked at the Choice Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Baltimore, MD, supporting and advocating for youth and families to decrease recidivism and increase graduation and employment rates. She has also collaborated with several other Baltimore non-profit organizations to help improve people’s access to food, education, and other community resources. Annabel is passionate about advocating for the representation of all groups of people and is excited to continue her work at WCPI.

Annabel received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Loyola University Maryland.

Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat is President of the Women’s Congressional Policy Institute. 

She was the founder and principal of JL-S Consulting, where she provided strategic guidance to nonprofits and foundations. Jennifer also served as the President and CEO of Washington Area Women’s Foundation, a community supported foundation dedicated to investing in women and girls of color in the Washington DC region, where she worked for 13 years. 

Prior to joining The Women’s Foundation, Jennifer spent 10 years at the Women’s Congressional Policy Institute, where she directed the organization’s policy research and analysis and worked extensively with the Bipartisan Women’s Caucus. 

Jennifer was named a Community Champion by Capital One and the Washington Mystics and a “Women Who Mean Business” and a “Power 100 Honoree” by the Washington Business Journal. 

Jennifer holds a master’s degree in international policy studies with a concentration in women in development from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of New Hampshire.