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• Robin
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• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
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Board of Directors |
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 Peggy
Antrobus
Peggy Antrobus co-founded Development Alternatives with
Women for a New Era (DAWN), serving as General Coordinator
1990-1996, and co-founded the Caribbean Association of
Feminist Action and Research (CAFRA). She received her
Ph.D. in Education from the University of Massachusetts,
and was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor Laws (LLD)
by the University of the West Indies (UWI). She has served
in multiple capacities in the Caribbean and internationally,
including: Chief Community Development Officer for St.
Vincent (1969-1970); Director, Women’s Bureau, Jamaica
(1974-1977); Tutor-Coordinator, Women and Development Unit
(WAND) UWI (1978-1995); and Co-sponsor with Centre of Concern,
Washington D.C. for a Strategic Planning Seminar on Gender
and Trade (1998-2000). She has consulted for CIDA and several
UN agencies, and been active on numerous boards. The recipient
of the CARICOM Triennial Award for Women in 1990, Dr. Antrobus
has written extensively on women and development, including
her The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and
Strategies (2004). Born in Grenada and a citizen of
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, she resides in Barbados. |
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 Margaret
Cho
Celebrated for her audacity, Margaret
Cho burst on the scene in 1994 with her sitcom, “All American
Girl,” becoming one of the most prolific and acclaimed
comedians of today. In 1999, she chronicled her struggles
with network executives over her weight and ethnicity into
a groundbreaking one-woman show, “I’m The One That
I Want,” praised by Entertainment
Weekly as one of the “Great Performances of the Year!”
In her stand-up concert tours and films, “Notorious C.H.O.,”
“Revolution,” “Assassin,” and “Beautiful,” she has tackled
sexism, organized religion, homophobia, sex, racism, self-esteem,
loser ex-boyfriends, and her now world-famous mother. Cho
is known as much for her contributions as a social equalizer
as she is for her taboo-breaking humor. She has been honored
by (partial list) the National Organization for Women, GLAAD,
the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the Asian American Legal
Defense and Education Fund, for promoting equal rights for
all. |
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 Donna
Deitch
Donna Deitch segued from documentary filmmaker to
producing/directing Desert Hearts, the landmark
lesbian love story hit of the 1986 Sundance, Telluride, and
Toronto Film Festivals. Oprah Winfrey hired Donna to direct
the Emmy-nominated miniseries, The Women of Brewster
Place, beginning years of TV directing, ranging
from HBO’s Prison Stories, Women on the Inside;
ABC’s Sexual Advances; and Showtime’s Common
Ground and Devil’s Arithmetic, for which she
won an Emmy, to NYPD Blue, ER, Heroes, Law
and Order: SVU, Private Practice, Grey’s
Anatomy, Judging Amy, and others. Angel
On My Shoulder, Donna’s documentary about a friend’s experience
with dying, won the Gold Hugo at The Chicago Film Festival.
In 1975, Donna received her MA from UCLA Film School for
her thesis film Woman to Woman: A Documentary about Hookers,
Housewives and Other Mothers. She co-founded The Social
and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), and is working on
a sequel to Desert Hearts, a film from partner Terri
Jentz’ true crime memoir Strange Piece of Paradise,
and a TV series to end war. |
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 Jodie
Evans
Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK:
Women for Peace and author of Stop the Next War Now,
Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism,
a social and political organizer for over 30 years, oversaw then Governor Jerry
Brown’s Office of Appropriate Technology and later ran his presidential campaign.
She has been a founder of, activist in and/or board member of countless groups,
including the Hereditary Disease Foundation, the Grief Recovery Center and the
Environmental Media Association, and currently Americans for a Safe Future, Circle
of Life Foundation, Conscious Business Alliance, Community Self-Determination
Institute, Drug Policy Alliance, the Garden Project at San Bruno prison, Rainforest
Action Network, Women’s Media Center, and many more. She has also been a leader
in creating socially responsible investment vehicles. |
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 Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda
is known worldwide as both an actor, activist, and author.
Throughout her life she has devoted herself to the anti-war,
civil rights, environmental, and women's movements. Her work
on stage and screen earned numerous nominations and awards,
including Oscars (Best Actress in 1971 for Klute and
in 1978 for Coming Home) and an Emmy for her performance
in The Dollmaker. As a film and television producer
her credits include Coming Home, The China Syndrome,
Nine to Five, Rollover, On Golden Pond, The Morning After,
and The Dollmaker. In 1995 she founded and is lifetime
chair of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
(G-CAPP). And in 1997 she created the Jane Fonda Center for
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention at the Emory Univ School
of Medicine. Fonda is also on the board of V-Day: Until the
Violence Stops, a global effort to stop violence against
women and girls. |
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 Tamera
Gugelmeyer,
Executive Director
An international feminist activist and writer on online activism, women and war,
and young feminist politics, Tamera concentrates on transforming women's organizations
into successful, sustainable non-profits. She has consulted on fundraising, new
media, marketing, and communications strategies for such national women's organizations
as The Women’s Media Center, Women’s Environment and Development Organization,
and the National Council for Research on Women. Experienced in both for-profit
and non-profit, Tamera worked on corporate marketing and communications at Cisco
Systems, strategic fundraising at Southern Methodist University, and targeted
marketing and communications campaigns at the Dallas Women’s Foundation. She
co-founded the first interdisciplinary graduate women's organization at the University
of Denver, completing her MA in International Studies with a focus on women’s
political participation in the Middle East, where she lived and taught. She devised
and co-founded GlobalSister.org, and serves on the boards of Feminist.com and
Women and Hollywood, and as an advisor to LoveYourBody.org. |
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 Robin Morgan, President
An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist,
activist, and editor, Robin
Morgan has published 21 books, including three classic
anthologies--Sisterhood Is Powerful (1970), Sisterhood
Is Global (l984; 2nd edition 1996), and Sisterhood
Is Forever (2003)—plus her award-winning The Anatomy
of Freedom (1994), and best-selling The Demon Lover:
The Roots of Terrorism (1989, 2nd edition 2001). Recent
books include Saturday’s Child: A Memoir (2000),
an historical novel, The Burning Time (2006), and
the nonfiction Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating
the Religious Right (2006). In 1990, as Editor-in-Chief,
she relaunched Ms. Magazine as an ad-free, international
bimonthly, resigning in 1994 to become Global Consulting
Editor. She has traveled widely--as organizer, lecturer,
and journalist--including twice spending months in Palestinian
refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, West Bank, and Gaza,
reporting on women. A founder and leader of contemporary
US feminism, she has also been a leader in the global women’s
movement for 25 years. |
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 Achola Pala Okeyo
A writer, researcher and speaker, Dr. Pala Okeyo began her
professional career at the Institute for Development studies,
University of Nairobi, Kenya. She joined the Huairou Commission
while she was at the United Nations. Currently an independent
scholar, she's served as Chief, UNIFEM's Africa Desk, Senior
Advisor on Governance to UNIFEM as well as Senior Policy
Advisor at UNDP, Africa Bureau. She's pioneered initiatives
on building the capacity of women's networks and has authored
articles and books with a focus on women's agency for political
and economic change. Her work in Africa focuses on women's
property rights, food security, AIDS, and sustainable livelihoods.
Dr. Pala Okeyo lives in both Kenya and the US. |
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 Ninotchka
Rosca
Ninotchka Rosca is a Philippine-born writer and activist.
Forced into exile after imprisonment by the Marcos Dictatorship,
she co-founded GabNet,
a US-Philippines women’s solidarity organization which began
laying down the basics for the practice of transnational
feminism. She served as the international spokesperson of
the Purple Rose Campaign against the trafficking of Filipinas
and Filipino children. GabNet has been engaged in combating
military-linked prostitution, trafficking, labor export,
and the re-feudalization of Third World women under globalization.
Seven of her books have been published, including State
of War, a classic account of life under the dictatorship,
and Twice Blessed, which won The American Book Award.
Currently, she is working with the Mariposa Alliance Initiating
Committee, Task Force Divorce Philippines, the Darna Fund
for women of Philippine ancestry, and the V.C. Igarta Arts
Centre. |
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 Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem helped found (1968) New York magazine,
where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles.
In 1972, she co-founded Ms. Magazine, where she
continues to serve as a Consulting Editor, and was instrumental
in the magazine's move to join forces with the nonprofit
Feminist Majority Foundation. Her books include the bestsellers Revolution
from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday
Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and Marilyn: Norma Jean.
She helped to found the National Women's Political Caucus
and was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice, which
eventually joined forces with the Planned Parenthood Action
Fund. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of
Choice USA. She was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation
for Women. Biography magazine listed her as one
of the 25 most influential women in America. In 1993, she
was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca
Falls, New York. |
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 María Suárez Toro
María
Suárez Toro is an international journalist and activist
through her work as co-director of FIRE (Feminist International
Radio Endeavor) since 1991. She has covered most UN conferences
since 1992, plus numerous local, national, and international
events. She worked as a human-rights activist and literacy
teacher at grassroots levels in El Salvador, Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, and Honduras in the 1970s and 1980s. A recipient
of numerous awards, María holds a Ph D. in Education from
the University of La Salle in Costa Rica, Licenciatura in
Journalism from the Universidad Federada in Costa Rica, and
an MA in Education from New York State University. She was
Professor of Communications at the University of Denver 1998-2002,
and at the Institute for Further Education of Journalists
(FOJO) in Sweden 1995-2000. Recently, María co-authored Se
Vende Lindo Pais (Lovely Country for Sale), on a plan
by a U.S. oil company to drill off Costa Rica’s coast and
the grassroots movement-- including indigenous women--organized
to stop it.
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Special Advisors |
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Pat Mitchell
President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media |
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Franklin Thomas
Consultant, TFF Study Group |
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International
Board of Advisors
(still in formation) |
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Maha Abu-Dayyeh (Palestine)
Marjorie Agosin (Chile)
Amna Badri (Sudan)
Alida Brill (US)
Helen Caldicott (Australia)
Thais Corral (Brazil)
Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)
Beverly Guy Sheftall (US)
Pregs Govender (South Africa)
Terry Greenblatt (Israel)
Vanessa Griffin (Fiji)
Ruchira Gupta (India)
Joy Harjo (The Mvskoke [Creek] Nation)
Susan Hawthorne (Australia)
Laura Hershey (US)
Florence Howe (US)
Jila Kazerounian (Iran)
Michele Landsberg (Canada)
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis (Canada)
Ariel Levy (US) |
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Maria Nadotti (Italy)
Judy Norsigian (US)
Molara Ogundipe (Nigeria)
Achola Pala (Kenya)
Margarita Papandreou (Greece)
Hilkka Pietilä (Finland)
Alix Ritchie (US)
Isel Rivero (Cuba/Spain)
Anna Leah Sarabia (The Philippines)
Bonnie Schaefer (US)
Alice Schwarzer (Germany)
Amanda Sebestyen (UK)
Sonal Shukla (India)
Ailbhe Smyth (Ireland)
Durga Sob (Nepal)
Titi Sumbung (Indonesia)
Jessica Valenti (US)
Irene Vilar (Puerto Rico)
Helen Zia (US)
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