Distinguished Fellow

The U.S. and other world powers have announced that they would supply the Libyan government with weapons in an effort to counter the Islamic State. To discuss, we FEATURE Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy. She was director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington program and a senior fellow from 1994 to 1997. While there she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, “Power Shift,” chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal’s seventy-five years. From 1977 to 1979, she was director of the Office of Global Issues at the National Security Council, covering nuclear proliferation, conventional arms sales, and human rights. Mathews has published widely in newspapers and in scientific and foreign policy journals, and she has co-authored and co-edited three books.

Executive Director

With Bay Area news organizations collaborating for a day of coverage of the homelessness crisis in San Francisco, we FEATURE Madeline Janis. Madeline Janis is co-founder and national policy director of LAANE. Under her stewardship as executive director from 1993 to 2012, LAANE became an influential leader in the effort to build a new economy based on good jobs, thriving communities and a healthy environment. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy and the organizing of broad alliances, LAANE has helped lift tens of thousands of working people out of poverty and has won major health and environmental victories for communities throughout Los Angeles County. Before founding LAANE, Ms. Janis, an attorney, represented tenants and homeless people in slum housing litigation, and advocated for homeless disabled people who had been denied government benefits. Media includes: Bill Moyers, LA Times, Sacramento Business Journal

Entrepreneur, Activist, Senior Advisor

May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention month and as teen pregnancy becomes a topic of discussion, we FEATURE Rachel Chanel Adams. Rachel began her commitment to human rights with the Center for American Progress and with President Obama’s initiative Organizing for Action. She serves as a board member for Girls PACT based in West Los Angeles, CA, a non-profit focusing on combatting unplanned teenage pregnancies of girls, ages 15-24. She is also the Senior Advisor for the Asociación Sol y Luna in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru, which provides assistance for people in rural Peru and a school providing holistic services, including serving as the only school in the province to accept disabled children. Media includes: CBS/KHOU, PBS

Former Director: Hackbright Academy, Founder: Women 2.0

With the annual Google I/O conference happening this week, we FEATURE Angie Chang. Angie 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, asking that guys come as the “+1″ for once to a tech event. Dinners are sponsored by companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and Palantir. Prior to that, she co-founded Women 2.0, a media company which promotes women in high-growth, high-tech entrepreneurship. 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". Media includes: ForbesWomen blog, Huffington Post blog