Adelaide Park Gomer is an heiress to the Park Communications and Duncan Hines fortunes. Gomer is now the president of the left-of-center environmentalist Park Foundation based in Ithaca, New York. In addition to her activism with the foundation, Gomer is a trustee of Ithaca College and a substantial donor to left-progressive causes and Democratic congressional candidates.

Background

Adelaide Park Gomer, daughter of Dorothy D. and Roy H. Park, is an heiress to the Duncan Hines foods and Park Communications media fortunes. Before working in left of center political activism with the Park Foundation, Gomer taught reading and special education in New York and Virginia. ⁹

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