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February 28, 2014
Experts for Women's History Month
For Women's History Month, WMC SheSource highlights a selection of women experts on women's history, women in media, women in politics, women and the economy, women in science and technology, women in the arts, violence against women, and reproductive justice.
Expert Spotlight
Joan Bradley Wages
President & CEO
National Women’s History Museum
For interviews on Women's history.
WOMEN'S HISTORY
Joan Bradley Wages’ passion and determination to make the National Women’s History Museum a reality has consumed her life for the last 15 years. Throughout her career, she focused on women’s issues on Capitol Hill which culminated in her serving as a founding board member of the National Women’s History Museum working to move the Suffrage Statue depicting founders of the U.S. suffrage movement from the Capitol Crypt upstairs into the Rotunda where it now stands.
Areas of Expertise:
Arts and Culture, Business and the Economy, Diplomacy, Education, Environment, History, Media and Entertainment, Philanthropy, Politics, Social justice
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Ruth Rosen
Professor of History Emerita, UC Davis; Scholar in Residence, UC, Berkeley
University of California, Davis; University of California, Berkeley
For interviews on Women's history.
Ruth Rosen is a pioneering historian of gender and society, who taught the first courses in this field at Berkeley in the early 1970s. She is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California at Davis, where she taught American history, women’s history, history and public policy, and immigration studies for over two decades. She also is an award winning journalist and has appeared on hundreds of radio programs, interviewed about women’s issues, anti-war movements and the 1960s.
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Janus Adams
Janus Adams LLC
For interviews on Women's history.
Emmy Award-winning journalist Janus Adams is the author of nine books including the trilogy GLORY DAYS featuring the expanse of African American women's history from the African American woman's point of view. By focussing its lens on little-known historic episodes, Glory Days reveals a legacy of achievement by African American women in every field: education, social movements, politics, religion, invention, exploration, business, human rights, the arts, culture and more.
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Amy Simon
President and Writer/Performer/Cultural HERstorian SHE’S History!
SHE'S HISTORY!
For interviews on Women's history.
Amy Simon, Cultural Herstorian, is the founder and creator of SHE’S HISTORY! Inspired (and alarmed) by her ten year old daughter’s desire to do her women’s history report on Cher or Janet Jackson, Amy writes and blogs about women who make and made history. She performs in the classroom, on the radio, online, and onstage, bringing awareness of and life to our unheralded, unknown and forgotten heroines.
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Suzanne Braun Levine
Writer, Editor
For interviews on Women's history.
Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor and nationally recognized authority on women and family issues and media. She was the first editor of Ms. magazine and the first woman editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. From its founding in 1972 to 1988, Levine edited Ms. magazine which received worldwide recognition for its coverage of previously unreported or under-reported issues that concerned women – from abortion, rape, domestic violence, genital mutilation, to equal pay and access to credit, sport opportunities for girls, and women in the media and arts.
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Heather Arnet
CEO
The Heckscher Museum of Art
For interviews on Women in politics.
WOMEN IN POLITICS
Heather Arnet is an advocate for women and girls rights locally, nationally, and internationally. As Chief Executive Officer of the Women and Girls Foundation, Arnet works to develop the female leaders of tomorrow while advancing women's rights today. She is the Writer/Director of the documentary film “Madame Presidenta: Why Not U.S.?” premiering on WQED/PBS in 2014.
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Jane Swift
Operating Partner
The Vistria Group
For interviews on Women in politics.
Jane Swift is a former Governor of Massachusetts. She worked for fifteen years in government, beginning her career as an aide to a state legislator. In 1991 she was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, becoming the youngest woman to serve in that body. In 1998, she was elected Lieutenant Governor and in 2001 she became Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She was Massachusetts’ first female Governor and the first Governor in the country to give birth (to twin girls) while serving in office.
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Atima Omara
President & Chief Strategist
Omara Strategy Group
For interviews on Women in politics.
Atima Omara is a recognized leader and speaker on engaging youth, women, and people of color in the political process. She is the first African American President of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), the nation’s largest youth partisan organization, in YDA’s 81 year history. She is also a frequent speaker on women and youth especially as it relates to political participation and leadership, reproductive justice, race and pop culture.
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Margie Omero
Principal
GBAO
For interviews on Women in politics.
Margie Omero is President and founder of Momentum Analysis, LLC, a Democratic public opinion research firm based in Washington, DC. Omero is the author of a chapter on women and voting in the three-volume series "Voting in America" and a chapter on the gender gap in statewide races in the academic text "Voting the Gender Gap."
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Caroline Heldman, Ph.D.
Chair, Politics Department
Occidental College
For interviews on Women in politics.
Dr. Caroline Heldman is chair of the Politics Department at Occidental College. She is a political commentator for MSNBC, Fox Business News, RT America, and Al Jazeera English. Professor Heldman specializes in the American presidency and systems of power, as well as media, gender, and race in the American context. She co-edited the popular book, Rethinking Madame President: Is the US Ready for a Woman in the White House?
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Susan Antilla
Investigative journalist and author
Freelance writer
For interviews on Women & the economy.
WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY
Susan Antilla is a financial columnist who writes about securities regulation, issues affecting the average investor and about gender discrimination. She has written about business and finance for 30 years, authoring columns about Wall Street for USA Today, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times, and Bloomberg. Antilla is author of “Tales From the Boom-Boom Room: The Landmark Legal Battles That Exposed Wall Street’s Shocking Culture of Sexual Harassment.”
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Fatima Goss Graves
President and CEO
National Women's Law Center
For interviews on Women & the economy.
Fatima Goss Graves is Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women’s Law Center, where she works to promote the rights of women and girls at school and in the workplace. Ms. Goss Graves advocates and litigates core legal and policy issues relating to at-risk girls in school. She further works to advance equal pay for equal work, expand opportunities for women in nontraditional fields, and ensure the development of fundamental legal principles of equal opportunity.
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Megan Beyer
Journalist, activist, and life-long advocate of women’s rights and cultural diplomacy
For interviews on Women & the economy.
Megan Beyer is an award winning journalist and civic leader. She is the founder and Chair of a bilateral project with Swiss and U.S. women leaders called “Sister Republics.” The project accelerates private market drivers to break the glass ceiling: gender certification, gender lens investing, and voluntary benchmark coalitions like The 30 Percent Club. She serves on the Foundation Board of the Geneva-based Gender Equality Project, a foundation affiliated with the World Economic Forum creating a gender certification standard for multinational corporations.
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Noreen Farrell
Executive Director
Equal Rights Advocates
For interviews on Women & the economy.
Noreen Farrell is the Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), one of the nation’s leading women’s rights organization, where she has led landmark litigation and policy reform efforts to improve the lives of women and girls at work and school. Noreen has written extensively on women’s economic issues, including discrimination based on pregnancy, pay, and caregiver status.
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Jennifer Streaks
Personal Finance Expert and Journalist
For interviews on Women & the economy.
Jennifer Streaks is a finance expert, multi-platform journalist, empowerment speaker, and financial author with an edgy voice on practical tips to thrive in today’s economic climate. In an age when, depending on the political pundit or financial contributor you’re watching, one can easily experience mass confusion on how to manage their income; Ms. Streaks offers a refreshing shift in thinking on saving, purchasing, and all matters of the pocketbook.
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Patricia Valoy
Civil Engineer and Project Manager
For interviews on Women in Science & Technology.
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Patricia Valoy is a Latina STEM and women’s rights advocate, blogger, and Civil Engineer. She has spoken in panels for the National Association of Women, Girls for Gender Equity, and Girls Inc. about STEM outreach, gender bias, stereotypes, and sexism in the workplace. She combines her experiences as a Latina and an engineer to advocate and inspire girls considering careers in the fields of STEM.
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Claudia Dreifus
Science Journalist - The New York Times/Science Times, Political and Cultural Interviewer - New York Review of Books/The Daily
Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
For interviews on Women in Science & Technology.
Claudia Dreifus writes about the lives of American and international scientists in her popular interview column in the Science Times section of The New York Times, "A Conversation with..." When the scientific honor society Sigma Xi made her an honorary member, they described her as "a pioneering and original force in making science accessible." Two collections of her interviews, Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from the New York Times, and Interview, are used as texts in journalism classes throughout the world.
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Shirley Bloomfield
Chief Executive Officer
NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association
For interviews on Women in Science & Technology.
Shirley Bloomfield is a staunch advocate for rural telecommunications. As CEO of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, Bloomfield’s leadership has been a significant factor in moving the organization forward in uncertain regulatory times. Bloomfield also serves as a board member of GlobalWin, an organization of women leaders in the high-tech industry. Through the organization, she participates in efforts to support and advance women in telecommunications through educational opportunities and networking.
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Angie Chang
Former Director: Hackbright Academy, Founder: Women 2.0
Founder: Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners
For interviews on Women in Science & Technology.
Angie Chang is currently the Director of Growth at Hackbright Academy, a 10-week accelerated computer science and software development program exclusively for women in San Francisco. In 2008, she started Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners to network women in technology; dinners are sponsored by companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and Palantir. She was named in Fast Company's 2010 "Most Influential Women in Technology" and more recently Business Insider named her one of "30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech".
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Lia Chavez
Contemporary Artist
For interviews on Women and the Arts.
Lia Chavez is a New York-based contemporary artist working with the body and the image as sites of encounter with a dynamic, mystical reality. Ms. Chavez serves on the board of Restore NYC where she develops public art initiatives which raise awareness of the plight of sexually exploited women and the importance of holistic aftercare in the restoration of survivors of human trafficking.
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Masum Momaya
Global Cities Fellow
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
For interviews on Women and the Arts.
WOMEN AND THE ARTS
Currently a Curator at the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Masum Momaya has 20 years of experience working for women’s rights, gender, race and class equality and social justice. “Beyond Bollywood,” Dr. Momaya’s upcoming Smithsonian exhibition, opened on February 27, 2014 (showing through August 16, 2015). It displays more than 200 historical and contemporary photographs, three dozen works of art and two historical artifacts to explore the contributions of Indian immigrants and Indian Americans in shaping American history.
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Felicia Pride
Founder
Pride Collaborative
For interviews on Women and the Arts.
Felicia Pride is a writer, educator, and strategist at the intersection of storytelling, media, education and technology who has spent more than ten years working in the field. She is the chief content officer of Pride Collaborative, a digital media consultancy, the director of StoriesLead, a project dedicated to the future of storytelling. Pride developed the digital educational component for the acclaimed PBS documentary, Slavery by Another Name, and co-developed Me @ 30, a multimedia HIV/AIDS advocacy campaign aimed at college students.
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Joy Harjo
President; Performer, Writer, Musician, Speaker
Mekko Productions Inc.
For interviews on Women and the Arts.
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She has released four award-winning CD's of original music and won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year. Her seven books of poetry include such well-known titles as How We Became Human- New and Selected Poems and She Had Some Horses.
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Lauren Wolfe
Journalist
For interviews on Violence against women.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Lauren Wolfe is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications from The Atlantic to The Guardian. She is the director of WMC’s Women Under Siege, a project on sexualized violence in conflict originated by Gloria Steinem at the Women’s Media Center. She serves on the advisory committee of the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict.
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Angela Esquivel Hawkins
Co-Founder & CEO
The As One Project
For interviews on Violence against women.
Angela Esquivel is co-founder and Executive Director of the As One Project, a non-profit organization that provides resources, support, and education for friends and family of survivors of sexual violence. A survivor of sexual assault, Angela has committed herself to leveraging traumatic experiences into powerful catalysts for change.
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Rebecca Nagle
Writer and Organizer
Freelance Writer
For interviews on Violence against women.
Rebecca Nagle has received international attention for her creative tactics. She is the founder and co-director of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, a creative activist effort to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. FORCE is most widely known for their panty parody, “PINK loves CONSENT” where they pretended to be Victoria’s Secret promoting consent to young women via “Ask First” thongs. The group has also projected “RAPE IS RAPE” onto the US capitol building and floated a giant poem in the reflecting pool as a call to create a national monument to survivors of rape and abuse.
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Debjani Roy
Associate Director of Training and Prevention at Sexual Violence Response
For interviews on Violence against women.
Debjani Roy is Deputy Director of Hollaback!, a movement to end street harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world. She has worked on issues including domestic violence, sexual assault, forced marriage, 'honor' based violence, sexual trafficking/forced prostitution, widows’ rights and immigrant rights.
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Jessica González-Rojas
New York City Council Member
New York State Assembly
For interviews on Reproductive rights.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Jessica González-Rojas is the Executive Director at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, the only national reproductive justice organization that specifically works to advance reproductive health and rights for Latinas. She has been a leader in progressive movements for over 15 years. Jessica is successfully forging connections between reproductive health, gender, immigration, LGBTQ liberation, labor and Latino civil rights, breaking down barriers between movements and building a strong Latina grassroots presence.
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Loretta June Ross
Activist. Public Intellectual. Academic.
Smith College
For interviews on Reproductive rights.
Loretta J. Ross is a co-founder and the former National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network founded in 1997 of 80 women of color and allied organizations that work on reproductive justice issues to fulfill a need for a national network that would organize women of color in the reproductive justice movement. SisterSong is headquartered in Atlanta, GA and serves as a national organizing center for feminists of color. Ms. Ross was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants.
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Robin Marty
Director of Operations, Freelance writer, Author, Speaker and Activist
West Alabama Women's Center
For interviews on Reproductive rights.
Robin Marty is the Senior Political Reporter for RH Reality Check. A freelance writer and speaker, Robin tracks state restrictions on reproductive health care rights. Robin's first book, Crow After Roe: How Women's Health Is the New "Separate But Equal" and How to Change That with lawyer Jessica Mason Pieklo was released for the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
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Shivana Jorawar
Co-Executive Director
Jahajee Sisters
For interviews on Reproductive rights.
Shivana Jorawar is a lawyer and policy advocate who currently directs reproductive justice priorities for the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF), the country's only national organization dedicated to social justice and human rights for Asian American and Pacific Islander women and girls. She is a co-founder of Jahajee Sisters, a grassroots organization based in New York City creating a safer and more equitable society for Indo-Carbbean women through dialogue, arts, leadership development and grassroots organizing.
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Emma Davidson Tribbs
CoFounder & Director
National Women's Defense League
For interviews on Reproductive rights.
Emma Davidson is the Associate Director for Strategic Mobilization at the New Morning Foundation, leading the advocacy efforts to bring responsible reproductive health policies to South Carolina. Her work has been highlighted in the State and Post & Courier, as well as on ABC, NBC and FOX.
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Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter
Dean, School of Engineering
Campbell University
For interviews on Women in Science & Technology.
Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. Her research focuses on integrated science, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula at the undergraduate level and the success of women students and faculty in STEM fields. She is currently President-Elect of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network, which is a national professional organization which works to transform the culture in engineering education to support the success of women.
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Aimee Allison
President of Democracy in Color
Founder of She the People
For interviews on Women in politics.
Aimee Allison is Director of Media and Community Outreach for the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. As a member of the Pac+, she works to elect progressive candidates at the local, state and federal level. She was host of Comcast Newsmakers on CNN Headline News and the KPFA Morning Show. Her talk show covered a wide range of issues – from the economy at home to conflict abroad, and she features unlikely heroes bringing new ideas and connections to solve our problems.
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Julie Burton
WMC President
Womens Media Center
For interviews on Women in media.
WOMEN IN MEDIA
Julie Burton leads The Women’s Media Center in its efforts to create a level playing field for women and girls through media monitoring, research, training, advocacy, original content, and the promotion of women and girls as media experts. The Women's Media Center issues an annual report on the The Status of Women in the U.S. Media.
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Pat Mitchell
Chair, Sundance Institute
Co-Chair Emerita, Board Member, Women's Media Center
For interviews on Women in media.
Pat Mitchell is President of The Paley Center for Media. An award winning journalist and media executive with over three decades of working in media both in front of and behind the camera, Pat Mitchell is former President and CEO of PBS. Under her leadership, the Paley Center has become a major convener for media leaders and enthusiasts, continuing to offer its unrivaled collection of radio, television, and advertising content as a lens for exploring the powerful impact of media on our lives, culture, and society.
Featured Expert
Janet Dewart Bell
LEAD InterGenerational Solutions
President and Founder
For interviews on Women in media.
Janet Dewart Bell is a communications expert and WMC Board Vice Chair. Among her accomplishments are a local Emmy® for outstanding individual achievement (Channel 9, the CBS-TV affiliate in Washington, DC) and programming for National Public Radio honored with the Peabody award. She has been a key strategist and senior executive at a number of national organizations including PolicyLink, the National Urban League, and National Public Radio (NPR).
Featured Expert
Stacy Smith
Associate Professor
USC Annenberg, School for Communication and Journalism
For interviews on Women in media.
Stacy L. Smith is the director of a research-driven initiative at USC Annenberg on Media, Diversity, and Social Change. Her research focuses on 1) content patterns pertaining to gender and race on screen in film and TV; 2) employment patterns behind-the-camera in entertainment; 3) barriers and opportunities facing women on screen and behind-the-camera in studio and independent films; and 4) children’s responses to mass media portrayals (television, film, video games) of violence, gender and hypersexuality.
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Soraya Chemaly
Director
WMC Speech Project
For interviews on Women in media.
Soraya Chemaly is a feminist writer, media critic and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights and the role of gender in politics, religion and popular culture. Most recently, Ms. Chemaly was one of the primary organizers of a successful social media campaign demanding that Facebook recognize misogynistic content as hate speech.
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Koritha Mitchell
Professor of English
Boston University
For interviews on Women's history.
A literary historian and cultural critic, Koritha Mitchell is also an associate professor of English at the Ohio State University, where her research centers on African-American literature, racial violence in U.S. literature and contemporary culture, and black drama and performance. She is author of the award-winning book Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890 - 1930.
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