WLP CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE 1999

Thursday, 9/9 9:30am -- 11:00am Public Service Panel Bell Hall

Friday, 9/10 10:30am - 12:00pm Academia Panel Boylston Aud.

Friday, 9/10 2:30pm - 4:00pm Government Panel Taubman BC

Saturday, 9/11 4:30pm - 6:00pm Health/Science Panel Boylston Aud.

Sunday, 9/12 2:00pm - 3:30pm Business Panel Emerson 101

Monday, 9/13 2:00pm - 3:30pm Media Panel Harvard Crimson

Monday, 9/13 10:00am - 12:00pm Keynote address* Boylston Aud.

The speakers/panelists for each of the above events can be found below.

-Public Service Panel-

Choosing to make a difference through direct service rather than solely philanthropy, the women of public service organizations are among the most passionate visionaries and active seekers of social justice and political change. These women bring persi stence, courage, and integrity to the causes they believe in. In today’s panel we meet five women who, despite their diverse backgrounds, have affected the lives of thousands of individuals at both a national and much-needed local level.

SUSAN EATON

Susan Eaton is a senior research associate at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute and is completing her doctoral studies at Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She worked for twelve years as a union organizer, ne gotiator, trainer, and manager for the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and an A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard-Ra dcliffe. At Harvard-Radcliffe, Eaton has been named a Bunting Fellow and a Harman Fellow, and a Littauer Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. She has researched and published numerous articles on service sector work, non-profit innovation and leade rship, frontline health care work organization, work-family integration and gender equity, and a variety of management issues. She is an editor of the "Work and Empowerment" section of the Civic Practices Network. Eaton will begin teaching publi c management at the Kennedy School of Government in January 2000.

DEEPA IYER

Deepa Iyer is a Staff Attorney at the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, a national non-profit, non-partisan civil rights organization dedicated to preserving and defending the rights of Asian Pacific Americans. At the Consortium, Iyer w orks on voting rights, language rights, and census issues through legislative advocacy, public policy development, litigation, and community education. Before she joined the Consortium, she practiced employment discrimination and labor law at a firm in I ndianapolis, Indiana. She received her Law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1997 and her Bachelor's degree in English from Vanderbilt University in 1994. Iyer moved to the United States from India when she was twelve and spent her hi gh school years in Louisville, Kentucky. She dedicates much of her time to community activities in Washington, DC, and is a Board Member of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, which refers needy clients to attorneys in the DC metropolitan ar ea.

REBECCA ONIE

Rebecca Onie is the Director of Project HEALTH, a multidisciplinary service organization, which leverages the creative vision of undergraduates, the expert knowledge of medical and legal professionals, and the first-hand experience of families to ensur e that every child grows up free from the obstacles imposed by poor health. Onie founded Project HEALTH during her second year at Harvard College and went on to direct the organization full-time following her graduation in 1997, with support from the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, the Stride Rite Foundation, and the Carl and Lilly Pforzheimer Foundation. As an undergraduate, Onie interned in the Housing Division of Greater Boston Legal Services and, subsequently, in the Boston Medical Center Family Advocacy Prog ram with the support of a Harvard Club of Boston Summer Community Service Fellowship. She wrote her undergraduate thesis in History and Science on the often-conflicting roles of doctor and activist during the civil rights movement. Onie will attend Harvar d Law School in the fall of 2000, after deferring for three years to run Project HEALTH.

CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Since founding the interdenominational, faith-based Starlight Ministries in 1990, Claire Sullivan has served as the service organization's executive director, training others in outreach to Boston’s homeless and poor. Starlight provides a life/skills j ob program, housing referrals, tutoring, counseling, and medical and mental health-related services. Recently, Sullivan joined the "Area A Task Force" a partnership between the Boston Police, local business owners, and homeless shelters to aid t he homeless in Boston's downtown area. Since 1996, Sullivan has also been on the volunteer staff at the MCI Framingham Prison working to help women who fall through the cracks between incarceration and release. During her summers, Sullivan has also served and trained as a missionary to the poor in third world countries, helping to provide medical care, agricultural training, construction development, and churches to the Dominican Republic. She has been certified (1997) by the Massachusetts Department of M ental Health to counsel men who batter women. Sullivan is an Urban Ministry student at the Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.

CINDY ZIPF

Cindy Zipf is Executive Director of Clean Ocean Action (COA). COA is a non-profit ocean-advocacy organization consisting of more than 180 fishing, boating, diving, conservation, and civic groups concerned with the water quality of the New York Bight. T hese waters, consisting of the entire area off the New Jersey coast south of Long Island to the tip of Cape May (outward to sea 140 miles), were, at the time of COA's founding, known as the "Dead Sea" or the "Ocean Dumping Capital of the Wo rld." Today, largely thanks to COA's opposition and educational efforts, ocean dumping there has finally ended, but COA continues to use education, research, and public pressure to enact measures to clean up and protect ocean waters. Zipf is widely r ecognized as the "heart and soul" of COA and was selected as one of "Five Most Inspiring Women in 1996" for an NBC show featuring her inspiring and ground-breaking work. Zipf holds a B.A. in Marine Policy from the University of Rhode I sland (1982).

-Academia Panel-

The academia panel is an opportunity for participants to talk with women in academia about the issues they encounter, not only as instructors, but also as researchers, writers, colleagues, and individuals. At Harvard and

elsewhere, affirmative action, tenure, and maternity and family leave policies affect women in all fields. As undergraduates, we seek mentorship, female role models, and coursework and research in women's studies. The panel is an opportunity to learn h ow best to locate and utilize the resources available to us. It also presents a forum for discussing the challenges, rewards and obstacles that women find throughout their academic careers.

STACY BLAKE-BEARD

Stacy Blake-Beard is an Assistant Professor of Administration, Planning and Social Policy at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she teaches organizational behavior, cultural diversity in organizations, and mentoring relationship s at work. She is also a member of the faculty of Harvard University's Programs in Professional Education. Blake-Beard holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the Un iversity of Michigan. Her research focuses on the

challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships, with a focus on how these relationships may be

changing as a result of increasing workforce diversity. Blake-Beard is particularly interested in the issues women face as they develop mentoring relationships. She also studies the dynamics of formal mentoring programs in both corporate and educationa l settings. The personal and career effects of mentoring on adults and youth participating in formal mentoring programs is yet another component that she investigates.

ANN PELLEGRINI

Ann Pellegrini is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. From 1997-1999, she was an Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, where she also had faculty appointments to the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies and the Committee on the Study of Religion. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1986 and returned to Harvard to earn her Ph.D., as well. Pellegrini has been active in femin ist and queer issues and organizing for many years – most recently as one of the charter members of SexPanic!, a New York-based queer activist group. Once upon a time, she was president of the Radcliffe Union of Students. She is the author of Perform ance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and co-editor of a forthcoming anthology Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She is currently completing a new book, co-written with Janet Jakobsen, entitled Getting Religion: Reflectio ns on Homosexuality, Values, and American Public Life. She still believes that theory and practice are mutually informing but not mutually exclusive.

MARGO SELTZER

Margo I. Seltzer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Her research interests include file systems, databases, and transaction processing systems. She is the author of s everal widely-used software packages including database and transaction libraries and the 4.4BSD log-structured file system. Seltzer spent several years working at startup companies designing and

implementing file systems and transaction processing software and designing microprocessors. She is a Sloan Foundation Fellow in Computer Science, a Bunting Fellow, and was the recipient of the 1996 Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowship, the 1996 Phi Bet a Kappa Teaching Award, and the 1999 Roslyn Abramson Teaching Award.

She is also the Chief Technology Officer of Sleepycat Software, the provider of the most widely-used database technology in the world. Seltzer received an A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992.

ELIZABETH SIMMONS

Elizabeth Simmons is a recently-tenured Associate Professor of Physics at Boston University, where she has been a faculty member since 1993. After graduating from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges with a degree in Physics, she pursued a M. Phil. at Cambr idge University in England, following which she returned to Harvard for an A.M. and a Ph.D. An active member of numerous professional societies, Simmons is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Aspen Center for Physics, where she co-produced a Focal Week on women in physics. As the founder and scientific coordinator of Pathways, Boston University's annual science day for women and girls, she brings women from Massachusetts high schools to Boston University to meet women scientists and engineer s. The author of approximately 50 articles, she is the recipient of a number of fellowships, including the American Association of University Women’s Curie Fellowship, the National Science foundation’s Early Career Development Award, the U.S. Department o f Energy’s Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, and the Japan Society for the promotion of Science’s Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan. Simmons and her husband have two children, ages 5 months and 8 years.

-Government Panel-

It is a "first" place. As we look at an assembly of international government officials, immediately noticeable are the faces of the women. Still in the significant minority amongst their male colleagues, women in government proudly tout their status as "First Woman" or "Only Woman," and rightfully so. However, while women can draw strength from their increasingly long list of "firsts," this mark of accomplishment also delineates the frustrations of a generation, and serves as a visible reminder of the breadth of society's proverbial ceiling of glass. And while women are breaking that glass in all areas of leadership, the inconsistencies of their Movement across religion, race, sexuality, and class are increasingl y apparent. What responsibility can our women in government take for those who feminism has left behind? How can our government officials reach across national and international divides, and extend their collective help to those women who need it most? As the last year of this millenium draws to a close, we are interested in looking back and evaluating our progress, as well as looking forward and predicting future trails our women leaders will blaze within the realms of governance.

SWANEE HUNT

Swanee Hunt is the Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where she also teaches. Prior to that appointment in 1997, Hunt focused a decade on American domestic policy, followed by four year s as the American Ambassador to Austria. While in Vienna, Hunt worked with women leaders throughout Eastern Europe. Her work culminated in a major piece published in the journal Foreign Affairs; the July 1997 "Vital Voices: Women in Democracy " conference of 320 women leaders; and the film documentary "Voices." For two decades, Hunt was a civic leader in Denver, where she founded the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, helping raise a $10 million endowment to promote women’s self-su fficiency. Her own private foundation, the Hunt Alternatives Fund, worked with over 400 neighborhood-based organizations to address issues of poverty and discrimination over a 16-year span. In addition to contributing scores of articles for American and i nternational newspapers and professional journals, Hunt has presented over a dozen one-woman photography shows in five countries, and her musical composition, "The Witness Cantata" has been performed in Vienna, Salzberg, and Washington, DC, amon g other cities. Hunt holds a B.A. in Philosophy; two Masters Degrees (in Psychology and Religion), and a Doctorate in Theology.

MOIRA LYONS

In 1999, in her tenth term in the Connecticut General Assembly, Moira Lyons was elected Speaker by the House of Representatives – the first woman to hold this position in state history. Prior to her election as Speaker of the House, Lyons became the f irst woman to serve as Majority Leader when the House Democratic Caucus chose her for that post in 1995. Lyons also served two years as Deputy House Speaker and six years as House Chair of the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee. A mother of two a nd longtime advocate of early childhood education, Lyons was named 1998 Connecticut Family Legislator of the Year in recognition of her landmark "Early Reading Success" legislation. Lyons also authored legislation in 1997 creating accountability in managed health care industry, and her managed care reform bill has since become a national model. For these efforts in improving health care, Lyons received the Connecticut State Medical Society's Legislative Award of Excellence in 1996 and 1997. She was one of thirty-one people selected nationwide for the Henry Toll Fellowship Program, which works to promote excellence among emerging state leaders. This year, Lyons was awarded the Pioneer Woman of the Year Award by Hartford College for Women.

RICKI SEIDMAN

Ricki Seidman is a Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. She advises the Attorney General on a wide range of policy issues, serving as a point person on Justice Department and Administration-wide initiatives to promote sa fer environments for youth and to protect civil rights. Prior to coming to the Justice Department, she worked directly with young people as the Executive Director of Rock the Vote, a non-profit organization formed to encourage young people to participate in the political process, and as a fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She previously served for two years in senior positions in the Clinton White House, including Deputy Communications Director and Director of Scheduling and Adv ance for the President. Seidman has also worked on a number of Senatorial campaigns as Legal Director of People for the American Way. She holds a B.A. from Miami University in Ohio and a Law degree from the University of Georgia.

LOUISE SLAUGHTER

Louise Slaughter is serving her seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 28^th Congressional District of New York State. Slaughter sits on the House Rules Committee and its Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House. She is Vice-Chairwoman of the Research Committee of the Democratic Leadership and serves as whip-at-large. In January 1999, she was named "Lay Educator of the Year" by the Rochester Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa International, the profe ssional fraternity for men and women in education. A bacteriologist with a Master’s degree in public health, she is intensely involved in health issues, especially those affecting women. Slaughter is a commissioner for the Helsinki Commission, the America n delegation to the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. She is the founder of both the Congressional Member Organization for the Arts and the Congressional Working Group on Genetics. She is a member of the Congressional Caucus on Women's I ssues and chairwoman of its Health Insurance Reform Team. Prior to entering Congress, she held many New York State political offices, including a seat in the New York Assembly.

-Health and Science Panel-

Historically, the numbers of women entering healthcare and science-related professions have lagged far behind those of men. While the discrepancy is disappearing in some areas, including medical school applicants, there are still many informal barrier s posing challenges for women entering into health and science careers. Concerns about balancing family life with the intense demands of the health and science lifestyle and a dearth of female mentors in many fields may present additional obstacles on an already difficult path to success. Today’s panelists have explored a wide range of avenues within health and science and their diverse experiences are indicative of the variable environments within these broad fields.

DR. FRANCINE BENES

Dr. Francine Benes is currently a Professor of Psychiatry (Neuroscience) at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Laboratory for Structural Neuroscience at the Mailman Research Center. In addition to a M.D. from Yale University, Dr. Benes has received three advanced degrees in Biology, one from Adelphi University and two from Yale University. As both a cellular neuroanatomist and a psychiatrist investigating how the brain may be "miswired" in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders, Dr. Benes is on the Editorial Boards of several publications including the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Development and Psychopathology, Synapse, and Neuropsychopharmacology. Her studies have been directly influenc ed by the knowledge she has gained from treating patients with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, and her research has been published in many distinguished journals such as American Journal of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Jou rnal of Neuroscience.

DR. NANCY DICKEY

Dr. Nancy W. Dickey, the Immediate Past President of the American Medical Association, is a board-certified family physician as well as a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Texas A&M

University College of Medicine. Among other roles within the AMA , Dr. Dickey has served on the AMA Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Organized Medicine, chaired the Finance Committee, and served as Chair of the Board

of Trustees from November 1995 to June 1997. During her tenure as Chair and President, Dr. Dickey helped create the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) at the AMA and currently serves as the Chair of the NPSF Board of Directors. She is a Fellow o f the American Academy of Family Physicians and serves on the editorial board of Archives of Family Medicine.

ANDREA DUPREE

Andrea Dupree is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Solar and Stellar Physics Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and team leader for the CfA-designed observing programs aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Ult raviolet Explorer satellite, and the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite. She and her colleagues are particularly interested in stars within globular clusters and found the first evidence of ultra-fast winds that reduce the mass of older stars. In 1980 , she was appointed an Associate Director of the CfA, the youngest

person and the first woman to hold such a position. After receiving a B.A. in Astronomy and Physics from Wellesley College, Dupree was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and later earned her doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard. She serves on many n ational and international advisory committees in astronomy, and she currently chairs the Panel on Astronomy Education and Public Policy for the Astronomy Survey Committee of the National Research Council. She is the Immediate Past President of the America n Astronomical Society.

DR. KRISTEN ZARFOS

After almost twelve years in private practice of General and Vascular Surgery and serving as the Senior Attending in General Surgery at Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, CT, Dr. Kristen Zarfos recently accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Sur gery at the University of Connecticut Health Center. This new position educating future physicians is a natural extension of Dr. Zarfos’s previous advocacy work for breast cancer patients. Dr. Zarfos has made many local, regional, and national presentatio ns about the impact of managed care, particularly on women with breast cancer. She has appeared on National Public Radio, Good Morning America, and many local television and radio broadcasts in support of patient rights. Dr. Zarfos also spoke with Hilary Clinton at a White House Media Event in February of 1997, when she was recognized for her patient care advocacy by President Clinton in the State of the Union Address.

-Business Panel-

As technology has created a world at once more global and more individual, opportunities abound for women to succeed in the traditionally male-dominated business sector. From a home computer, business transactions can be made with companies around the globe, often demanding new entrepreneurial perspectives on and approaches to the age-old techniques of the business world. Despite these openings, women still struggle to make substantial progress toward the elimination of the glass ceiling on Wall Street and in the major corporations of the globe. The workplace also leaves many issues concerning the balance between work and family unresolved. Our panelists represent a cross-section of the business world, and their experiences suggest the multiple meaning s of leadership in this context.

SOYINI COKE

Soyini Coke is currently a second year Business Analyst in the New York Office of the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Recently graduated from Harvard College in 1998, Coke concentrated in Applied Mathematics and Economics and lived i n Currier House. During her time at McKinsey, Soyini has served clients in the Financial Services and Healthcare industries, focusing on strategic issues ranging from pricing of products to reorganization. Although she is thoroughly enjoying the fast pace of New York, her permanent home is Atlanta, and her family is from Jamaica. In her spare time (what little of it she has), Soyini loves shopping, movies, clubbing, trying out trendy restaurants, and hanging out with her friends.

KATHLEEN FARRELL

As Catalyst’s Director, Corporate Relations, Kathleen Farrell oversees the team that builds and maintains relationships with corporate members—the Fortune 500 companies and leading professional firms that support

Catalyst's work to advance women. In addition to providing member services, she is accountable for Catalyst revenue-generating events including the annual Awards Dinner and Conference. Ms. Farrell is also responsible for Catalyst-wide conference devel opment. She has more than 10 years' experience in the not-for-profit sector, with

special expertise in fund development and project management.

DEBRA PEATTIE

Debra Peattie received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University in 1980. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in Biochemistry at Stanford University, she returned to Harvard as an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. From Harvard, Dr. Peattie joined Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated in Cambridge – a structure-based rational drug design company – when it was founded in 1989, as head of Molecular Biology. At Vertex, she established and directed a var iety of research programs, secured external research funding and partners, recruited key scientific consultants, performed market due diligence and assessed outside licensing opportunities. Peattie left Vertex in 1994 to attend Harvard Business School. Af ter obtaining her MBA in 1996, she became a limited partner at MPM Capital LP, based in Cambridge. In January 1999, Dr. Peattie became President of RCT BioVentures NE, LLC, a $15 million fund focused on sourcing and initiating seed ventures in biotechnolo gy and the medical sciences. RCT BioVentures NE cooperates with Research Corporation Technologies to identify technologies suitable for investment and to create start-up venture plans and manages their progress with the assistance of a scientific advisory board of external and internal experts.

SHARON WHITELEY

Sharon Whiteley, CEO of Crimson Solutions, is a seasoned entrepreneur who has built several successful companies. Most recently, she served as President of Contempo Colours, a 400-person manufacturer of consumer products, which was the result of a 1996 merger with Peacock Papers, which she founded in 1982 and presided over until the merger. Prior to creating Peacock, Sharon spent twelve years in the specialty shopping center development industry, during which time she was instrumental in the developmen t of a number of pioneering projects, including the Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, where she invented and executed the pushcart concept and specialty retail program. Throughout her career, Whiteley has demonstrated the leadership capability to create sustained and profitable growth and develop products with strong market demand; build strong customer focused attitudes, high performance teams and service systems; and effectively network and build relationships with third party organizations. In 1987, she received the regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award sponsored by Ernst & Young and Inc. Magazine. She is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, the International Womens’ Forum, the Entrepreneur of the Year Institute, the Committee of 200, and is on the Board of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.

-Keynote Address-

MARIE C. WILSON

Marie Wilson is the President of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the Co-Founder and President of the White House Project. An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Wilson has raised millions of dollars for programs and organizations servin g women and girls, including the Ms. Foundation’s $15 million endowment fund. In 1983, she became the first woman elected to the Des Moines City Council as a member-at-large. The following year, she became the president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, wh ere she has helped create the Women’s Economic Development Collaborative Fund and the Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women. As the Foundation’s president, Wilson helped launch Take Our Daughters to Work® Day, now in its seventh year. Fro m 1989 to 1992, Wilson was a member of the Human Rights Commission of New York City. In 1992, she published "Women’s Voices," a bipartisan policy guide that highlighted issues that unify women across race, class, age, and geography. In 1995, she served as an official government delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China.

-Media Panel-

Whether in print, radio, television, or online, the media is shaping not only how we see the world, but how we come to understand our past, present, and future. Although often cited as one of the most competitive and challenging professions, a career i n media is also reputed to be one of the most exciting and rewarding vocations. Today’s panel brings together an amazing and diverse group of accomplished women, who combine insight and expertise to matters of social impact, historical significance, and e conomic weight. Regardless if they are the face behind

the camera, the hand behind the page, the voice behind the newsroom, these are women on the front line of history in the making.

FARAI CHIDEYA

Farai Chideya is an ABC News Correspondent and author. In 1997, Newsweek named her to its "Century Club"

of 100 people to watch as we approach the year 2000. She spent the 1996 Presidential election season as a CNN Political Analyst, and previously worked for Newsweek and MTV News. For her reporting, Chideya has won awards including a National Educ ation Reporting Award, a Unity Award in Media, and a GLAAD award. Chideya’s stereotype-shattering 1995 book, Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans, is now in its eighth printing. In spring 1999, William Mo rrow published her second book, The Color of Our Future, in which Chideya interviewed and analyzed the lives of today’s diverse teens and twenty-somethings from an Indian reservation to South Central L.A., the 99% white heartland to multi-racial So uthern California. Chideya is a 1990 Harvard-Radcliffe graduate and lives in New York.

ELLEN GOODMAN

Ellen Goodman’s insight, common sense, and verbal flair have attracted a fervent national following since 1976, when her Boston Globe column was first syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group. Today, her column appears on op-ed pages in o ver 440 newspapers across the country. Goodman has been with the Boston Globe, where she is an associate editor as well as a columnist, since 1967. She graduated from Radcliffe College, cum laude, in 1963, and spent 1973-1974 at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. In 1980, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. In addition to her 1979 book on social change, Turning Points, five collections of her columns have also been published. She has earned numerous awards, including the A merican Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award (1980) and the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award (1988) from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Goodman has also received the President’s Award from the National Women’s Politica l Caucus (1993) and The Women's Research & Education Institute's American Woman Award (1994). Goodman lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband.

CARMA HINTON

Carma Hinton is a director, producer, interviewer, and independent filmmaker. In 1982, she and her husband founded The Long Bow Group, a non-profit corporation, which produces and disseminates educational media and specializes in documentary films abou t China. The Long Bow Group has won more than thirty awards, including two George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Awards, and an Academy Award nomination. Hinton’s films, like the riveting and explosive Gate of Heavenly Peace and One Village in Chin a have been broadcast on PBS, the Arts & Entertainment and Discovery cable channels in the US; on BBC and Channel Four in the UK; and have been translated into seven languages for broadcast in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Hinton was born in China to American parents and was raised and educated there until 1971. Chinese is her first language and culture. Since 1971 she has lived in the United States. She received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1976) and a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University (1999). She has taught at Swarthmore, Middlebury, and Wellesley Colleges. For her work in film, she was awarded a Rockefeller Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship in 1988.

MARYFRAN JOHNSON

Maryfran Johnson is the Editor-in-Chief of Computerworld, the Newspaper for IT Leaders (with a national circulation of 250,000). She joined the Framingham, Mass.-based Computerworld in 1989, after working at The Gainesville Sun (FL ), The Tri-City Herald (WA) and The Cincinnati Enquirer (OH). She helped found Computerworld’s Client/Server Journal in 1993, and later became Computerworld’s News Editor. In February 1996, she was appointed Executive Editor, a position responsible for all newsroom operations for a staff of about 65. She has appeared in a variety of radio, TV and newspaper stories and is a prominent keynote speaker at industry conferences. Johnson holds a Master’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University, and two Bachelor’s degrees – one in French Literature from the State University of New York at Albany, and the other in Journalism from the University of Florida. Johnson lives in the Boston area with her husband, two teenaged daugh ters and four dogs.

CAROLE SIMPSON

Carole Simpson is anchor of "World News Tonight Sunday" and an Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent for ABC News. Her reports appear most frequently on "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings" and "Good Morning America." ; Simpson moderated the 1992 Presidential debate and anchored ABC's live coverage of Nelson Mandela's release, the Persian Gulf War, Tiananmen Square, the fall of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, and the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings. She has received copious awards for her reporting and her efforts to improve opportunities for women and minorities in the broadcasting industry. In addition to an Emmy and a duPont-Columbia Award, Simpson was most recently inducted into the Chicago Journalism Ha ll of Fame, and she was honored by the Chicago Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the National Association of Black Journalists for 25 years of excellence in network television and broadcasting. Currently, Simpson serves a s co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation and a number of other national boards. She has also established several college scholarships for women and minorities pursuing careers in broadcast journalism. Simpson and her husband, James Marshal l, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. They have a daughter, Dr. Mallika Marshall, and a son, Adam.