LEAD InterGenerational Solutions

To discuss the status of women of color in the media upon the release of the Women's Media Center's Status of Women in the US Media 2014 report, we FEATURE Janet Dewart Bell, 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.

Chair, Sundance Institute

To offer her analysis on how the media landscape has changed for women, we FEATURE Pat Mitchell, 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.  

Partner, Internet, Intellectual Property and Technology

With the Future of Privacy Forum launching its Do-Not-Track registry, we FEATURE privacy expert Christina Gagnier. Christina Gagnier leads the Intellectual Property, Internet & Technology practice at Gagnier Margossian LLP, with a specialization in copyright, information privacy and social media. She consults with technology companies on policy issues ranging from patent law reform to communications issues, such as Network Neutrality. Gagnier’s primary research concerns issues of cyber rights and the intersection of on and offline action.

Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies

To address the verdict in the Jordan Davis trial, we FEATURE African American culture and racial inequality expert Imani Perry. Perry is a Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies race and African American culture using the tools provided by various disciplines including: law, literary and cultural studies, music, and the social sciences. She is the author of More Terrible, More Beautiful, The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the U.S as well as 2004’s Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop and has published numerous articles in the areas of law, cultural studies, and African American studies.