2025-26 Board Members

Cassandra Gaul

Cassandra is one of the increasingly rare Georgia natives from the metro area. She grew up with her mother's quilts and sewing room, never quite understanding (1) why there needed to be a whole room for it and (2) why there needed to be so. much. fabric. It's okay. She gets it now. But it took an international pandemic for her to really dive in. Beginning with sewing button-downs, her journey shifted to quilts after figuring out that fitting pants is just hard and flat things are easier.

Professionally, Cassandra works for the government and leverages technology and automation to modernize business practices to ensure that the right people have the right information at the right time. That said, she is loath to look at a screen or check email in the evenings and would much prefer to spend half the time sewing, and the other half taking one of five cats off her sewing. She enjoys casual bird watching on hikes, curling up with a science fiction book or show, and going to the zoo, the Shakespeare Tavern, or Fernbank with friends. She dreams of one day also having her own sewing room with so. much. fabric.

Ginger White

Ginger joined MACQ in 2024 and has been quilting since 1973. She loves to make non-traditional quilts, especially pictorials. 

A trademark of her quilts is using fabric that she has painted. Ginger leads tours to Mexico and the inspiration for many of her quilts come from Latin America. 

Rebecca Fisher

Rebecca began quilting in 2021 after seeing someone make a quilt and thinking to herself, “How hard could that be?” Several years, a ridiculous amount of fabric, and more WIPs than she knows what to do with later, she’s found an amazing community to sew with. Rebecca quilts with a can-do attitude and a steadfast refusal to fail, and does all of her best work at 2 a.m. the night before guild meetings.

Kandis Irizarry

Kandis’s love for quilting blossomed in her early teens, inspired by the magic of her grandmother’s sewing room. As they watched novelas together, her grandmother patiently taught her the delicate art of hand sewing and embroidery. That early spark turned into a lifelong passion.

By day, she is an executive in healthcare revenue management. By night, she transforms fabric into art—designing and quilting pieces that blend color, movement, and texture. Through her longarm quilting business, she helps others bring their quilt tops to life.

Kandis joined the Metro Atlanta Contemporary Quilt Guild to connect with other creative makers who share her love of quilting and modern design. When she’s not behind her machines, she enjoys the outdoors and travels with her family. 

Leslie Wade

Leslie has been quilting for more than three decades and loves improv, modern and traditional quilts. As she moved from her native Southern California to the southeast, she became a member of the San Diego, Dallas, Chattanooga, West Atlanta and Atlanta Modern Quilt Guilds. Today, she is retired and grows heirloom apples, fruits and vegetables in Ellijay, in the North Georgia mountains. She is a Master Gardener and volunteers to create and restore native habitats for UGA and the Georgia Native Plant Society. When she’s not digging in the dirt, she loves to start quilts and she occasionally finishes them.