The National Council for Research on Women
Annual Conference 2005

POWER Matters:
Reshaping Agendas through Women’s Leadership

Monday June 6 – Tuesday June 7, 2005
CUNY Graduate Center , New York City
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

* invited

 MONDAY, June 6

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

 9:00– 9:15 a.m.

WELCOME

Linda Basch (President, National Council for Research on Women )

Patricia Clough (Director, Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center)

Janet L. Holmgren (President, Mills College and Chair of the Board, National Council for Research on Women)

 9:15 – 11:15 a.m.

OPENING PLENARY  

Women Leading for Change

The imperative for women to lead for change is now stronger than ever. Successful leaders from diverse contexts will share their visions, agendas, and accomplishments, as well as comment on key hurdles and risks they’ve faced and foresee. Panelists will explore factors – like who else occupies positions of power – that have made a difference in women’s leadership. Among questions to be addressed: What conditions support or impede women’s ability to assume, and be successful in, leadership roles? Once there, to whom are women leaders accountable, and how do they retain their visions? How do women leaders in different contexts build critical mass, constituencies, and clout? Panelists will also share their views of the current landscape for emerging women leaders.

Panelists:

Dina Dublon (Former Chief Financial Officer, JPMorganChase)

Judith Kaye (Chief Judge of the State of New York)

Thoraya Obaid (Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund)

Moderator:

Janet L. Holmgren (President, Mills College and Chair, NCRW Board)  

11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

CONCURRENT DISCUSSIONS  

Opting Different:
Reframing the Work/Life Debate  

This session will highlight recent research on media generated discussions raised around the “opting out” phenomenon.  Panelists will fill in gaps in knowledge and address strategies for creating change in the work environment.  Some of the critical issues that will be addressed are: How do work/life issues impact professional and personal choices? What are the options and realities for people of color, men as well as women, and different age groups in addressing work/life issues? What will it take to ensure more viable work/life configurations in the workplace? To what extent can leadership play a role in addressing these issues? What is the next chapter – changes in the culture, practice, or more research? 

Panelists:

Lois Backon (Vice President, Families and Work Institute)

Stewart Friedman (Director, Wharton Work/Life Integration Project)

Sylvia Ann Hewlett (President, Center for Work-Life Policy)

Jennifer Tucker (Vice President, Center for Women Policy Studies)

Moderator:

Ana Duarte McCarthy (Director of Global Diversity, Citigroup)

The "New Feminism": Organizing Women Workers
A Roundtable Discussion

Today, union organizing drives locally and nationally are defining a new type of feminist leadership, one which offers women leadership opportunities and economic advancement and raises critical questions.  This panel will address how labor and women’s movements are—or aren’t—collaborating for change. Join leading union women organizers, community/union grass roots leaders, academics, legislators, and labor journalists to discuss these and other pressing questions.  Are clichés, such as “what's good for Wal-Mart,” really good for working women? Will the federal funding for  New York City building projects, including the “ Freedom Tower” in Lower Manhattan, benefit women of color, and women generally?  Do the people who work as nannies and housecleaners benefit from unions? And how are universities and immigrant women workers impacted by unionizing? 

Panelists:

Barbara Bowen* (Professional Staff Congress, CUNY)

Ileen DeVault (Associate Professor of Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University)

Earline Fisher (Tradeswoman, Carpenters Union, Local 608)

Irasema Garza (Director, Women’s Rights Department, AFSCME)

Ruth Milkman (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

The Honorable Catherine Nolan ((D-37), New York State Assembly)

Moderators:

Lois Gray (Professor Emeritus, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University)

Francine Moccio (Director, Institute for Women and Work, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University)

Reproductive Justice:
Expanding the Debate  

Mapping a more complex battleground for genuine reproductive health rights than the metaphor of “choice” allows, “reproductive rights” have been reframed to encompass a broad range of issues—including forced and often unwitting sterilization; dangerous contraceptives such as Depo-Provera and Norplant; invasive family planning and population control policies; welfare “reform”; the equal right to legal, safe, abortion; access to quality health care; and sexual autonomy. This expansion of the issue has created space for the reproductive health concerns not only of women of color, who have been at the forefront of defining and implementing radical reproductive health agendas for generations, but of diverse cultural, religious, and even political groups. Here, a diverse panel of scholars and activists discuss the reframing of rights and justice, raising vital questions about inclusion, identity politics, sexual agency, and the future of women’s organizing.

Panelists:

Jennifer Baumgardner (Activist and Co-author of Grassroots and ManifestA)

Marlene Gerber Fried (Director, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Hampshire College and Professor of Philosophy)

Silvia Henriquez (Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health)

Rosalind Petchesky (Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Hunter College)

Jael Silliman (Program Officer, Human Rights and Social Justice Program, Ford Foundation)

Moderator:

Rayna Rapp (Professor of Anthropology, New York University)  

Leading in Academe:
The Women’s Studies PhD Program

This panel will examine the implications and effects of Women’s Studies PhD programs for Women’s Studies, academia, and society at large, as well as for research on women, gender, race, class, sexuality, and difference. Among questions to be explored: What impact does the existence of the Women’s Studies PhD have on the way Women’s Studies and research on women and gender are perceived, funded, and recognized on campus? What epistemologies are being privileged, and what challenges might this present for other disciplines? What role are such programs playing in linking gender issues to broader concerns about diversity on campus, outreach to local communities, and student and faculty activism? How might NCRW encourage and facilitate research needed for the continued development of the discipline?

Panelists:

Lynn Bolles (Professor of Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park)

Pamela Hall (Chair, Women's Studies Department, Emory University)

Allison Kimmich (Executive Director, National Women's Studies Association)

Sally Kitch (Professor of Women's Studies, Ohio State University)

Moderator:

Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Director, Women's Research and Resource Center, Spelman College)  

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

LUNCHEON PLENARY

Women Leading on Security: Barriers and Opportunities

Voters’ hesitations about female candidates and executive leaders largely revolve around perceptions of a woman’s ability to be a “tough fighter” and “strong leader,” one who can take decisive action and effectively command troops when necessary. This session will explore the cultural barriers women candidates and women executive leaders face in male-dominated policy arenas like national security. Speakers will identify tangible ways for women leaders to advance a critical mass of women into elected office, be perceived as authoritative, and in turn, shape public policy agendas with women’s perspectives and priorities.

Participants:

Donna Edwards* (Executive Director, The Arca Foundation)

Charles Knight (Co-Director, Project on Defense Alternatives, Commonwealth Institute)

Celinda Lake (President, Lake Snell Perry Mermin & Associates)

Sarah Sewall (Program Director, Larr Center for Human Rights Policy)

Marie Wilson (President, The White House Project)

Moderator:

Linda Basch (President, National Council for Research on Women)

2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS  

Recalculating Agendas for Economic Security

The policy debate about taxes has largely ignored gender.  This void has real implications for women’s pocket books, the services they receive, the quality of life in their communities, their futures, and their children’s futures. Here, researchers and policymakers will discuss pro-woman tax policy and describe how women are working to increase the progressivity of the tax code, ensure adequate services, and support other measures that both raise revenues and more fairly distribute the tax bill. Panelists will also address popular messaging around these issues, the need for greater public education, and the pressing issue of the United States’ Social Security system and its relationship with the tax system. 

Panelists:

Mimi Abramovitz (Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Hunter College)

Joan Entmacher* (Vice President and Director of Family Economic Security, National Women's Law Center)

Terri McCullough (Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi)

Sandra Morgen (Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon)

Margaret Simms* (Vice President for Governance and Analysis, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies)

Moderator:

Sandra Morgen (Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon)

LGBT Agendas:
What’s Next?

How are LGBT organizations, activists, and scholars framing and forwarding agendas in corporate, scholarly, political, and legal/domestic spheres in the U.S. and beyond U.S. borders? What are the issues, how can they be approached, and who are our allies? How are LGBT populations affected by, and attempting to affect, the current climate in the U.S., after the 2004 elections, in a time of war, and in an atmosphere of ever-increasing inequalities in the “homeland” and outside its borders?

Panelists:

Paisley Currah (Executive Director, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center )

Jasbir Puar (Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University )

Carmen Vazquez (Deputy Executive Director, Empire State pride Agenda)

Moderator:

Carolyn Dinshaw (Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University )

Leading Toward the Future:
Girls and Leadership  

Girls’ leadership matters not simply because girls have the potential to change the future world, but because they have the strength and capacity now to make a difference in their own lives and in their communities. Representatives from leading organizations focusing on girls will discuss key issues concerning girls’ leadership—girls’ understanding and experience of leadership, programming that focuses on girls’ leadership development, and conditions that support and/or hinder girls’ efforts to take on their personal, civic, and global responsibilities as equal partners for social change.

Panelists:

Pei Yao Chen (Research Analyst, Girls Incorporated National Resource Center)

Kimberlee Salmond and Judy Schoenberg (Girl Scouts of the USA)

Sally Stevens (Executive Director, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, University of Arizona)

Patti Binder and Betsy Blanchard (Center for Girls, YWCA of New York City)

Moderator:

Heather Johnston Nicholson (Director of Research, Girls Incorporated National Resource Center)

International Collaborations Around Gender Violence

This panel will highlight a variety of recent efforts to build international coalitions around projects focused on gender violence. Join leaders involved in effective, international campaigns to discuss strategies, obstacles, and future directions for continued collaboration around these issues.

Panelists:

Victoria Budson (Executive Director, Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

Rhonda Copelon (Professor of Law, CUNY Law School)

Sara Nordstrom (16 Days Campaign Coordinator, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University)

Maya Raghu (Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum)

Moderator:

Susan McGee Bailey (Executive Director, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College)  

4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

NETWORKING BREAK AND BOOKSIGNING

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

AFTERNOON PLENARY

Women Rethinking War and Empire

Two years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, many questions about the war remain.  In this session, prominent scholars and activists will look at the absence of women’s voices and experiences in public conversations about the war, and the changing roles of women in war.  Among questions to be addressed: What is the impact of preemptive war on global relationships and peace building?  Where and how is the anti-war movement expressing itself, and where are women in that movement?  What do we make of the US framing of the “liberation” of Muslim women as a justification for war?  How can women leaders play an active role in rethinking the ideology, and enactment, of war and empire?

Panelists:

Rabab Abdulhadi (Director, Center for Arab American Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan)

Hester Eisenstein (Professor of Sociology, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center)

Catherine Lutz (Watson Institute Research Professor and Professor of Anthropology, Brown University)

Rosemari Mealy* (Representative, National Alliance of Third World Journalists)

Rupal Oza (Assistant Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, Hunter College)

Andrea Smith (Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Co-Founder, INCITE!)

Moderator:

Linda Basch (President, National Council for Research on Women)

6:30 –8:30 p.m.

RECEPTION & ENTERTAINMENT  

WELCOME

Patricia Clough (Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society, CUNY Graduate Center

Spoken Word Performance

Gina Athena Ulysse

TUESDAY, June 7  

7:30 – 8:45 a.m.

BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS

Roundtable Discussion on Human Security
Hosted by Charlotte Bunch*, Patricia Clough, and Gale Summerfield* (with Anne Zill and Others)

Roundtable Discussion on Women and Politics
Hosted by Judith Saidel and Marie Wilson with Nemzoff and others  

Roundtable Discussion on Higher Education and Diversity 
Hosted by Carol Hollenshead

Roundtable Discussion on Girls' Leadership
Hosted by Heather Johnston Nicholson and Susan Bailey

Roundtable Discussion on Women and Unions
Hosted by Electa Arenal, Shari Miles, and Francine Moccio (with Ileen De Vault, Liza Featherstone, Julie Dushner, Brenda Stokely, and others)

New and Prospective Member Center and
Directors Welcome Breakfast
Hosted by Cynthia Secor , Deborah Siegel ,
Donna Shavlik, and Nellie Sung

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

PUBLIC BREAKFAST

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

CONCURRENT DISCUSSIONS  

Strategies for Women’s Political Leadership and Engagement:
A Roundtable Discussion

The past 10 years have seen slow and uneven progress for women appointed and elected to top-ranking positions of power in both federal and state governments. What accounts for the continuing under-representation of white women and women of color in elected and appointed political leadership? What have we learned about strategies for fostering and expanding women’s political leadership? And what do we still need to know?

Discussants:

Sarah E. Brewer (Associate Director, Women & Politics Institute, American University)

Carol Hardy-Fanta (Director, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Emily Martin (Master’s Degree Candidate, Women’s Studies, George Washington University )

Judith Saidel (Executive Director, Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, SUNY Albany)

Tracy Sturdivant (Vice President, The White House Project)

Aili Mari Tripp (Director, Women's Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Debbie Walsh (Director, Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University )

Linda Williams* (Associate Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland)  

New Directions in Global and Transnational Feminism  

This panel will address the possibilities of and challenges for transnational feminism today.  Speakers will consider extent to which the issues of feminists worldwide are aligned; the benefits and challenges of building consensus among feminists and feminist movements; and the role of feminism in addressing the effects of globalization, neoliberal economic policies, religious fundamentalism, militariziation, and conflict.  Given the current political moment, what are key feminist global projects, and how are they to be addressed? How can we work across differences of race, class, nation, generation, ethnicity, class, and sexuality, and also bridge divides between activism and scholarship?

Panelists:

Mahnaz Afkhami (President, Women's Learning Partnership)

Charlotte Bunch (Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University)

Ida Susser (Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)

Deborah Thomas (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)

Moderator:

Irma McClaurin* (Program Officer, Education, Sexuality, and Religion, Ford Foundation)

A Conversation About Incarceration
and Post-Incarceration Experiences

With nearly 650,000 people released from prison each year in the United States, there is a need for reentry planning, policies, and services that support longterm stability, economic security, and social integration for formerly incarcerated people and their families. Join scholars, practitioners and policy analysts who are engaged with issues of incarceration and post-incarceration experience in a conversation about the new shift in policies on reentry and the implications of these new policy initiatives. The collateral consequences of incarceration will be discussed as well as the possibilities after incarceration for professional advancement, education, political activism, or community organizing around issues such as health services, housing, or general well being.

Panelists:

Kathy Boudin (Former member of the Weather Underground and former prisoner at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility)

Michelle Fine (Professor of Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center)

Tamar Kraft-Stolar (Director, Women in Prison Project, Correctional Association)

Joshua Price (Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development, SUNY-Binghamton)

Vivian Nixon (Executive Director, College and Community Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center)  

Moderator:

Patricia Clough (Director, Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center)

Transforming Academia for
Women (and Men) in Science  

Lawrence Summers’ recent questioning of women’s “innate” ability to succeed in the sciences presented yet another opportunity to call attention to the extent to which scientists are made, not born. Women in science and math face a particular series of barriers in their careers, dropping out at almost every significant transition. Too many women in the pipeline leave before they have the chance to prove their worth. Designed to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers, the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grants were established to addresses these problems. This panel will focus on institutional change as reflected in this program. Panelists will draw on experiences of institutions with ADVANCE grants to discuss the roles of research and feminist scholarship in effecting institutional change.

Panelists:

Diana Bilimoria (Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve)

Abigail Stewart (Agnes Inglis Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan)

Susan Sturm (George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility, Columbia Law School)

Virginia Valian (Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Hunter College) 

Moderator:

Janet Malley (Deputy Director, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, University of Michigan)

10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

NETWORKING BREAK AND BOOKSIGNING

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT DISCUSSIONS  

Rethinking the Intersections of
Gender, Religion, and Human Rights

Gender lies at the center of current conversations about religion, politics, and human rights, and in various socio-political and cultural contexts as well.  “Moral values” have become code for a narrow set of culture war issues in the U.S., and the “liberation” of Muslim women in Iraq and Afghanistan has been a component of U.S. justification for war.  “Veiling” itself has become politically charged.  This session will look at religion and gender in terms of political code, identity, belief system, and rallying cry, exploring ways religion today is being used as a political statement, and how women, in particular, are both objects and agents in these debates. 

Panelists:

Lila Abu-Lughod (Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University )

Elizabeth Castelli (Associate Professor of Religion, Barnard College)

Frances Kissling (President, Catholics for a Free Choice)

Marcia Riggs (J. Erksine Love Professor of Christian Ethics, Columbia Theological Seminary)

Moderator:

Lynn Szwaja (Program Director for Theology, The Henry Luce Foundation)

Feminist Leaders:
Successes and Challenges for the New Generation

Building on the legacy of previous feminist generations, younger feminists are able to expand the parameters and definitions of feminism and activism inside and outside the academy by looking at “non-traditionally feminist” issues through a gender lens and incorporating the theories and tactics of multiple social justice movements (anti-racist, gay rights, anti-globalization). This panel will explore the innovative ways younger women – and men – are “doing feminism.”  To what extent do younger feminists’ activism and leadership styles differ from those of previous generations? What might leaders across generations and cohorts learn from one another about leadership, feminism, and instigating social change today? 

Panelists:

Jehmu Greene (President, Rock the Vote)

Astrid Henry (Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and English, St. Mary’s College, Indiana)

Amy Richards (Author, Activist and Co-founder, Third Wave Foundation)

Alison Stein (Founder, National Council of Women's Organizations' Younger Women's Task Force)

Yomara Velez (Founder, Sistas on the Rise)

Moderator:

Gwendolyn Beetham (Program/Research Associate, National Council for Research on Women)  

Women’s and Gender Studies in
Transnational Networks of Collaboration  

Transnational collaborations are significant explorations leading to the formation of new transnational feminist communities in the age of accelerated globalization. They generate social change not only through new knowledge produced, but also by the very process of feminist collaboration transnationally. This panel will offer overviews of and reflections on various transnational collaborations involving the United States , China , Poland , India , and Eastern Europe . Panelists will discuss the implications of these transnational collaborations on feminist knowledge production in different locations, and analyze some of the first hand data on feminist activism in various locations collected by transnational collaborative efforts .

Panelists:

Carol Boyd (Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan)

Deborah Rosenfelt (Professor of Women's Studies, University of Maryland)

Debra Schultz (Network Women’s Program Deputy Director, Open Society Institute)

Wang Zheng (Professor of Women's Studies, University of Michigan)

Moderator:  

Abigail Stewart (Agnes Inglis Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan)

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

LUNCHEON AND CLOSING PLENARY

Gender, Authority, and the Media

From Teresa Heinz Kerry to Laura Bush, from so-called “girlie men” to cowboy presidents, the 2004 election season brought to the fore assumptions about the nature – and gender – of leadership in this country.  How are leadership and authority gendered in the media, and before the public eye?  What are the resulting implications, both at home and abroad?  Prominent media analysts and journalists will share their thoughts on popular images of leadership, the role of the media in shaping these images, and what women leaders themselves can do to help alter perceptions and bring about change.  The panel will also explore the effects of the dearth of female commentators and opinion writers in the nation's news outlets.

Panelists:

Lakshmi Chaudhry (Senior Editor, AlterNet)

Amy Goodman (Host and Executive Producer, Democracy Now!)

Carol Jenkins (Journalist and Founder, Carol Jenkins & Company)

Tara McKelvey (Senior Editor, American Prospect; Contributing Editor, Marie Claire)

Moderator:

Betsy Reed (Senior Editor, The Nation)

2:00 - 2:30 p.m.

SUMMATION

Linda Basch (President, National Council for Research on Women )

2:30 - 3:00 p.m.

BOOKSIGNING



2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

CLOSED MEMBER CENTER MEETING:
Looking To NCRW's Future

3:45 – 5:00 p.m. 

Key Research Issues in Women’s Leadership  

In the years since women have been introduced into “leadership studies,” what have we learned about women as leaders, and the contexts that promote and sustain women’s leadership?  In this session, scholars and activists take stock of the field, identifying advances and directions for continued research.  What have we learned about “good” leadership, and its role in advancing positive social change?  What have we learned about leaders’ accountability to their constituents, and about building coalitions and movements?

Panelists:

Ella Bell (Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Dartmouth College)

Nan Langowitz (Director, Center for Women's Leadership, Babson College)

Laura Liswood (Senior Advisor, Goldman, Sachs & Co.)

Eleanor Smeal (President, Feminist Majority Foundation)  

Moderator:

Mary Hartman (Director, Institute for Women's Leadership, Rutgers University )

END OF PUBLIC CONFERENCE

5:15– 6:30 p.m.

WORKSHOPS FOR NCRW MEMBER CENTERS  

Strengthening Our Centers from Within

The collapse of campus-based women’s research centers for lack of funds, combined with recent turnover in the leadership of some of our non-campus-based centers , raise issues of structural continuity and organizational coherence for us all.  This workshop will offer tools and strategies for strengthening centers in flux, including building strategic alliances with boards and campuses and working across differences and in hostile political climates.  We will break into groups according to type of center (policy centers, campus-based centers, and advocacy/membership-based centers) to further explore how we might strengthen the internal structures that will keep us strong, both individually , and as a network.

Facilitator:

Cynthia Secor (Director, Higher Education Resource Services, Mid-America, University of Denver )  

The Changing Philanthropic Landscape

In this workshop, leaders from the world of philanthropy will address challenges, barriers, and opportunities for funding our work in the current political and economic climate. Join us for an assessment of current trends in different areas of giving, including: the changing expectations of foundations, the impact of shrinking federal dollars, and the balance of personal relationship to programmatic match in successful grant seeking.

Facilitators:

Sara Engelhardt (President, The Foundation Center)

Linda Jo Parrish (Vice President, Institutional Advancement, Society for Women's Health Research)

Irma McClaurin (Program Officer, Education, Sexuality and Religion, Ford Foundation)

Kimberly Otis (President & CEO, Women & Philanthropy)

Moderator:

Wayne Winborne (Vice President, Business Diversity Outreach, Prudential Financial)  

Spinning and Winning:
Powerful Communications Campaigns

In this workshop, communications strategists from across the NCRW network will share best practices around campaigns that worked and have had national impact. Communications staff at NCRW Member Centers are particularly invited to attend to share ideas and discussion.

Presenters:

Joan Ross-Frankson (Communications Director, Women's Environment and Development Organization)

Cecilia Snyder (Women's E-Media Center, Communications Consortium Media Center)

Jessica Valenti (Executive Editor, Feministing.com)

Lisa Witter (General Manager & Executive Vice President, FENTON Communications)

Moderator:

Vivian Todini (Consultant, VT Consulting)  

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

MEMBER CENTER RECEPTION