SESSION #1
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2
10AM-12PM
What's At Stake In Affirmative Action -- So. Cotillion --
Symposium
Chair: Connie Rice, Esq., NAACP Legal Defense Fund Western Regional
Counsel
Kathy Spillar, National Coordinator, Feminist Majority
Barbara Bergmann, Professor of Economics, American University
and author of In Defense of Affirmative Action
Catherine Didion, Executive Director, American Women In Science
Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor, University of Southern California
Law Center
Georgina Verdugo, Esq., Regional Counsel, MALDEF
Kimmi Lee, President, University of California Student Association
Gloria Johnson, President, Coalition of Labor Union Women
Caren Wilcox, Executive Vice President, National Association of
Women Business Owners
Carmen Delgato Votaw, Director of Government Relations, Girl Scouts
USA
Organizing for Women in a Time of Economic and Technological
Change -- Virginia B/C -- Symposium
Chair: Pamela Sparr, Women's Division, United Methodist Church
and editor of Mortgaging Women's Lives
LaShawn Jefferson, Research Human Rights Watch
Eileen Applebaum, Ph.D., Associate Research Director, Economic
Policy Institute
Barbara Ehrenreich, Ph.D., Columnist and author of The Hearts
of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment and For
Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women
Dolores Huerta, Vice President of United Farm Workers, Board Member
of the Feminist Majority Foundation
Eleanor Funk, Senior Associate Director, Alliance for Employee
Growth and Development
Cindy Morano, Director, Wider Opportunities for Women
Increasing Women's Bylines -- Kansas -- Roundtable
Chair: Rachel Jones, President-Elect, Journalism and Women Symposium
(JAWS) and National Correspondent, Knight Ridder
Judy Mann, author of The Difference: Growing Up Female in America
and Washington Post columnist
Marylouise Oates, Author and Former columnist, Los Angeles Times
Barbara Reynolds, Columnist, USA Today
Nancy Monaghan, President/Publisher, Public Opinion (A Gannett
Publication)
Learning from the Past for the Future -- Colorado -- Symposium
Chair: Mary Roth Walsh, Ph.D., Director of Women and the Workplace
Research Center, Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts
- Lowell and author of Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply
Margaret Wertheim, Science Writer and author of Pythagoras' Trousers:
God, Physics, and the Gender Wars
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Ph. D., Professor of History and Women's
Studies, John Jay College and Graduate Center, City University
of New York and author of Eleanor Roosevelt, Volumes One and Two
Paula Gunn Allen, Ph.D., Professor of English, UCLA and editor
of Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970
Michael Kimmel, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, State University
of New York - Stonybrook, National Spokesperson for National Organization
for Men Against Sexism and author of Manhood in America: A Cultural
History
Esther Barazzone, Ph.D., President, Chatham College
Making Women Count: Let's Change the Rules -- Delaware --
Symposium
Chair: Deborah Stone, Ph.D., Professor of Law and Social Policy,
Heller School, Brandeis University
Gloria Steinem, Author and founder of Ms. Magazine
Ronnie Steinberg, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies,
Temple University and editor, Women in the Political Economy Series,
Temple University Press
Pamela Zappardino, Executive Director, Fair Test
Phyllis Rosser, Ph.D., President, The Equality Testing Project
Run Women Run: How to Recruit More Women Candidates -- Calvert
-- Roundtable
Chair: Evelyn Murphy, Ph.D., former Lt. Governor, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
Kim Gandy, Vice President Executive, National Organization for
Women
Amy Conroy, Director, Women's Campaign Fund
Anita Perez-Ferguson, President, National Women's Political Caucus
Ruth Mandel, Ph.D., Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics
Mary Beth Cahill, Executive Director, EMILY's List
Sarah Craven, Esq., Center for Development and Population Activities
Susan Shaer, Executive Director, Women's Action for New Directions/WAND
PAC
Jennifer Williamson, Co-Chair, National Women's Student Coalition
of the United States Students' Association and President, Associated
Students, University of Oregon
How Women's Studies Benefits Feminist Activism, How Feminist
Activism Benefits Women's Studies -- Nathan Hale -- Roundtable
Chair: Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of
Women's Studies, Barnard College
Claire Moses, Ph.D., Director of Women's Studies, University of
Maryland and Editor, Feminist Studies
Jean O'Barr, Ph.D., Director of Women's Studies, Duke University
Alice Cohan, Director of National Programs, Feminist Majority
Foundation
Jennifer Pozner, Student, Hampshire College
Molly MacGregor, Executive Director, National Women's History
Project
Geeta Cowlagi, Graduate Student, Women's Studies, Northern Iowa
University
Jeanette Hanna-Rumz, Multicultural and Campus Coordinator, NARAL
Bonnie Morris, Ph.D., Women's Studies Program, George Washington
University
Deborah Sieger, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Criminal Justice and
Social Work, Kutztown University
Tools for Developing A Feminist Budget -- Wisconsin -- Training
Seminar
Just Economics Collective Trainers: Miriam Walden and Kim Tso
Introduction to the Internet -- Woodley -- Training Seminar
Aliza Sherman, Cybergrrl Internet Media
Alicia Daly, Feminist Majority Foundation
Ana Reyes, Feminist Majority Foundation
Feminist Film/Video Screening (10:00 - 1:00) -- Vermont
