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Analisa Balares
CEO & Founder, Womensphere
Analisa Balares is CEO-Founder of Womensphere, a global leadership com-
munity dedicated to Unleashing Potential. Creating Opportunity. Inspiring
Impact. Transforming the World. Since 2008, Womensphere has reached
over 10,000 leaders, produced 20 conferences/forums, and convened 3,000
women on leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainability.
Analisa worked at Microsoft on their social networking service, and in
Goldman Sachs Investment Banking, where she helped execute $1.5 billion
in IPOs/financings for technology companies. She is a Harvard Business
School and Mount Holyoke College alumna. Analisa is recognized by the
World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, and is listed among
100 Most Influential Filipina Women in America.
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On our 30th Anniversary
we are recognizing 30 stellar women
from diverse corners of our broad network
who through their efforts have advanced
womens issues, promoted womens leadership
and changed the way the world views
women and girls. All have been nominated
by their peers for their outstanding work.
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Kathy Cloninger
Former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA
As Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of the USA, Kathy Cloninger
led a sweeping transformation that prepared the organization to meet the
needs of the 21st century. At the same time, she helped bring Girl Scouting to
a renewed focus on its historic root mission: developing the leadership capacity
of girls. Under her direction, the Girl Scouts developed a groundbreaking
national program to help build girl leaders, and intensified its program of
original research on girls and girls issues. The transformation of Girl Scouting
Cloninger spearheaded greatly strengthened this iconic American institution
and positioned it for the 2012 Year of the Girl initiatives currently under way.
Dina Dublon
Dina Dublon is a long-standing advocate for womens advancement in
finance, business, and across sectors. Frequently recognized among Fortunes
50 Most Powerful Women, she has received numerous honors including
NCRWs Making a Difference for Women Award. Dina recently joined the
faculty of Harvard Business School after an impressive career at JPMorgan
Chase where she was EVP and Chief Financial Officer. She is a director of
Microsoft, PepsiCo, and Accenture; a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University,
and a board member of the Global Fund for Women. Born in Brazil, she was
co-chair of the Womens Refugee Commission until June 2010.
Tiffany Dufu
President, The White House Project
Taking the helm as President of The White House Project last year, Tiffany
is a dynamic, fearless leader, with a passion for pragmatic solutions, and an
unwavering commitment to social justice. And as a mother who brings her
full self to work every day, she is an inspiring role model.
Tiffany embodies the power of the next generation of women leaders by
enthusiastically leading her team, and engaging countless others in this
work by meeting people where they are and leveraging technology to
connect with the most diverse audience possible.
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Janice Ellig
Co-CEO, Chadick Ellig
Janice Ellig demonstrates a deep commitment to diversity by advocating the
recruitment of women and minority candidates into leadership positions.
A co-founder of the first Iowa Womens Leadership Conference, she has
published multiple articles on the subject of womens leadership and is
co-author of two business books.
Janice is a regular speaker on college campuses, and in honor of her sister,
launched an annual scholarship for women at the University of Iowa.
She was the first women to Chair the YMCA of Greater New York Board of
Directors and is immediate past President of the New York Womens Forum.
Janice applauds companies that recognize that women are a strategic
business imperative and represent 50% of the population their employees,
shareholders, and customers.
Anne Erni
Global Head of Leadership, Learning and Diversity, Bloomberg
Anne Erni is an innovative leader in developing people to reach their
potential. She heads Leadership, Learning and Diversity at Bloomberg,
managing global initiatives in leadership and diversity. Prior, she was
Chief Diversity Officer at Lehman Brothers pioneering global efforts in
the retention and advancement of women and under-represented groups
in financial services and she created the award-winning Encore program, to
re-train individuals resuming their careers. Anne brings 15 years of banking
and capital markets experience with private and public sector clients.
She received her BA and MA from The Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Bologna, Italy.
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Helen M. Galt
Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer and Company Actuary,
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Responsible for Prudentials risk management infrastructure and actuarial
processes, Helen Galt has distinguished herself as a pioneer dedicated to
encouraging women and minorities into actuarial careers and to developing
a future generation of professionals that is prepared to face the technical
and ethical challenges of tomorrow. As a committed champion of womens
initiatives at Prudential, such as its flagship Women in Finance organization,
Helen has led a sustained focus on developing women at Prudential as leaders,
and using the power of an inclusive, supportive network to help women
to realize their professional and personal potential.
Renee Garbus
VP, Assistant Treasurer Risk Management, PepsiCo
Renee Garbus, initiated and led PepsiCos Westchester involvement in
the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. She engaged over 400 employees,
and helped raise over $135,000 cumulatively, putting PepsiCo in the Top10
for both corporate participation and fundraising.
Two years ago, Renee saw an opportunity for PepsiCo's Womens Inclusion
Network (WIN) in Westchester to engage employees in raising awareness
for breast cancer through participation in the Susan G. Komen Race for
the Cure. With a team of volunteers, she set out to drive participation
in the September 2009 race. The first year, the team raised $27,000 from
136 PepsiCo race participants, families and friends. In year 2, Renee tripled
participation to 400 and raised $40,000 before matching.
Renees leadership, perseverance, and personal investment has made this
event a big success.
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Rose E. Gorman
Supervisor, Community Engagement Department, StoryCorps
Rose Gorman witnesses the impact of storytelling in its multiple forms.
She leads workshops for LGBT homeless youth through the NY Writers
Coalition and is a Community Engagement Supervisor at StoryCorps, a
national oral history organization. As a member of StoryCorps Participant
Diversity Project Team, Rose works to envision and implement organiza-
tional strategies that ensure the archive of voices housed at the Library of
Congress American Folklife Center accurately reflect the nations diversity,
and here, the female voices range is paramount. For Rose, the act of
storytelling telling ones story, in ones own words and on ones own
terms is key to female empowerment.
Donna P. Hall
President & CEO, The Women Donors Network
Donna Hall has dedicated her career to empowering women from all
walks of life, as a leader in the non-profit world, a mentor to young women
starting their careers, and as an activist committed to full equality of women
and girls around the globe. Donna has served as President & CEO of the
Women Donors Network (WDN) since 2002, where she has helped to
build a community of progressive women investing their strategic savvy,
energy, and philanthropic dollars to create a more just and fair world.
Donna, a Stanford MBA, works to bridge the nonprofit sector with the
business world.
Joan Gustafson Haworth
Founder and Retired Managing Director, Economic Research Services Group
Joan Gustafson Haworths career as an economist, scholar, entrepreneur
and statistical expert witness in employment discrimination cases had a
substantial impact on the development of equitable employment policies
and practices in U.S. workplaces. She testified in precedent-setting class
action Title VII lawsuits such as EEOC v. Sears and Dukes v. Wal-Mart.
A former tenured Florida State University faculty member, she has authored
over 30 articles that were published in economic, statistical and legal journals.
In 1981, she founded ERS Group, a national consulting firm specializing
in statistical analyses of the outcomes of employment decision-making
processes for women and other demographic groups. For 30 years, she
served as a member of the board of the American Economic Associations
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
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Janet Holmgren
Former President, Mills College
Janet Holmgren has spent much of her life advocating for womens
leadership. She served as the President of Mills College for 20 years
where she remains on the faculty as the Susan Mills Professor of English.
At Mills, she was known for advancing women's leadership as well as
access to top quality education for women.
In her volunteer life, she chaired the American Council on Education, the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement for Teaching, and The National
Council for Research on Women for several years. She also served on the
Academic Affairs Committee of the Princeton University Board of Trustees.
Jan currently serves on the Board of the International Museum of Women.
Debbie Hopkins
Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
Deborah Hopkins is being recognized for her leadership at Citi in driving
client-focused innovation, supporting emerging technologies and champi-
oning the advancement of women, by ensuring sponsorship and advocacy,
to senior management. She is Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and
Chief Innovation Officer at Citi. She joined Citi in 2003 and became Chief
Operations & Technology Officer later that year. She was named Chief
Innovation Officer in 2008. Based in Palo Alto, California, her mission
is client-focused innovation. Before coming to Citi, Debbies roles included
CFO for The Boeing Company and Lucent Technologies. Fortune magazine
has twice named her one of the most powerful women in American business.
Eleanor Horne
Eleanor Horne has been a strong advocate of women and girls throughout
her personal and professional life. She is the immediate past chair of the
National Council for Research on Women. Eleanor worked for the
Educational Testing Services (ETS) from 1969 until her retirement in 2010.
She held a variety of positions at ETS over the years and since 2006,
she has served as vice president of the companys Social Investment Fund.
Eleanor has won many awards including the National Urban Leagues
highest honor, the Donald H. McGannon Award. She serves on many
boards including The College of New Jersey, the Lawrence Township
Community Foundation, and she co-chairs the Lawrence Hopewell Trail
Corporation, and is vice chair of the Princeton Area Community
Foundation and the D&R Greenway Land Trust.
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Edith Hunt
Chief Diversity Officer, Goldman Sachs
Edie Hunt has been and continues to be an exemplary champion for the
advancement of women from both a social and economic perspective.
Edie is engaged, supportive and committed to helping women globally
leave a footprint of success. For years, Edie has been active with key
organizations and programs like the Forte Foundation (former chair),
Womens Campaign International (board member), Goldman Sachs
10,000 Women (representative) and the Trustees Council of Penn
Women (vice chair). Many of Goldman Sachs internal diversity programs
for women have been initiated under Edies leadership. She has acted as
mentor to the women at Goldman Sachs and has advocated for them,
ensuring talented women are well represented at all levels from analyst
to partner. She continues to be the firms Chief Diversity Officer and
serves in an advisory capacity on key talent management initiatives.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Founder and President, The Sister Fund
Activist, author, and National Womens Hall of Fame inductee Helen
LaKelly Hunt has helped change the face of womens philanthropy.
She is founder and president of The Sister Fund, a private womens fund
dedicated to the social, political, economic, and spiritual empowerment
of women and girls. The historic Women Moving Millions initiative,
which Hunt co-founded, inspires high-net worth women to give boldly
to women and girls. Raising over $200 million to date, WMM provides
a powerful voice for women globally. She has also written Faith and
Feminism: A Holy Alliance, which lifts up the dynamic synergy between
feminism and progressive faith traditions.
Musimbi Kanyoro
President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
Musimbi Kanyoro is an international leader and advocate for the health,
development, and human rights of women, girls and minority groups.
She is currently President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, the
largest publicly supported grantmaking foundation that advances human
rights by investing in women-led organizations worldwide.
Musimbis career accomplishments include adding girls education and
womens leadership to the Packard Foundation grantmaking program
while Director of the Population Program, and championing practices to
ensure the representation of women under 30 on local, national, and global
boards. She has written and published extensively on matters affecting the
lives of women and children.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jacqueline Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, is often
heralded as the greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century, having won
three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in four different
Track & Field events in four consecutive Olympiads. Joyner-Kersee,
also known for her philanthropic efforts, is dedicated to improving the
lives of East St. Louis youth through the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation
where shes the founder and Chair. Shes also a founder of Athletes for
Hope, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes
and inspires millions of non-athletes to volunteer and support their
communities.
Barbara G. Koster
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Barbara Koster has been widely honored for excellence in business,
technology and womens advocacy. She is a member of Executive Women
in NJ, and serves on the boards of trustees of The Prudential Foundation
and Liberty Science Center. Barbara has paved a path for women to pursue
careers in business and technology and works closely with organizations
such as Girl Scouts of America New Jersey to encourage young women in
high school and college to focus on math and science. She also spearheaded
Prudentials sponsorship of Workforce Opportunity Services, which provides
career opportunities for high school graduates and military veterans;
sponsors a mentoring group at Rutgers University to help women find
careers in business; and actively supports Womens Unlimited, Inc.,
which develops women leaders of the future.
Carolyn Buck Luce
Principal, Ernst & Young
Carolyn Buck Luce is being recognized by Ernst & Young as a dedicated
leader promoting womens advancement, an innovative thought leader,
and a treasured sponsor and mentor.
Carolyn lives the values of women helping women. She opens doors
for women by sharing her own experiences, engaging others to share their
stories, and helping women develop their leadership skills and networks.
Carolyn has authored ground-breaking research, which has opened minds
and shaped the dialogue on womens issues.
Perhaps most meaningful, is Carolyns legacy as a mentor and sponsor
who takes personal interest, invests time, and uses her personal capital
to advance the careers of women.
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Marjorie Magner
Partner, Brysam Global Partners
Marjorie Magner is a founding member and Managing Partner of Brysam
Global Partners. Prior to the formation of Brysam, she served as Chairman
and CEO of the Global Consumer Group at Citigroup from 2003 to
October 2005.
Marge has been an advocate for women throughout her career, taking on
leadership and mentoring roles within her industry to ensure that women
are represented at senior levels of organizations and in the board room.
She is Chairman of the Board of Gannett Company Inc., and director
of Accenture, as well as Ally Financial. She also serves as a trustee for the
Brooklyn College Foundation and as a member of the Deans Advisory
Council for the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.
Stephanie N. Mehta
Executive Editor, FORTUNE
Stephanie Mehta is executive editor of FORTUNE, overseeing technology,
international and Washington coverage. She also helps set the overall
editorial direction for the magazine and serves as co-chair of two of Fortunes
live events, Brainstorm Tech and the Most Powerful Women Summit.
Previously Stephanie served as assistant managing editor and global editor.
Before moving into editor roles, she was one of the magazines most
prolific writers.
She joined FORTUNE in 2000 from The Wall Street Journal, where
she was an assistant news editor, reporting and editing technology stories.
She wrote extensively about telecommunications at the Journal.
Prior to joining the Journal, she worked as a business reporter for
the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, VA.
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Maria Castan Moats
Chief Diversity Officer and Assurance Partner, PwC
Maria Castan Moats has always been a trailblazer. Born in Chihuahua,
Mexico, she was the first in her family to attend college and became a
partner just ten years after joining PwC. While continuing to serve clients,
Maria is now PwCs first Latina Chief Diversity Officer, where she reports
directly to the Chairman and Senior Partner. She is responsible for design-
ing and driving PwCs strategy to make the firm an even more inclusive
place, where people from all backgrounds can flourish. In the press and
within the firm, Maria frequently speaks about PwCs efforts to retain and
advance women by focusing on sponsorship, flexibility, and leadership
opportunities. She is a dynamic role model for working mothers and
diverse professionals across the firm. In her role leading diversity and
inclusion, Maria isnt just blazing her own trail shes clearing the path
for the women who come after her.
Lisa-Marie Monsanto
Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Lisa-Marie Monsanto's practice focuses on representing small and
medium-sized enterprises seeking financing for housing, agriculture,
renewable resources, and commercial projects in Latin America, the
Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa. Committed to promoting
womens leadership in the US and abroad, Lisa-Marie serves on the Firms
Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity. As a Board member of The
White House Project, she helped create its Washington, D.C. Leadership
Circle, bringing together female leaders from the public and private sectors.
She also serves on its Corporate Council which is designed to change
the landscape for womens leadership in the 21st Century. She is a member
of the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C., a
LEADer with Womens World Banking, and a member of the Leadership
Circle of Womens Foreign Policy Group.
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Yvonne Moore
Executive Director, Daphne Foundation
Yvonne L. Moore is Executive Director of the Daphne Foundation.
She leads the Foundation in providing support to grantees with a particular
focus on measuring the outcomes of advocacy, organizing, and other
forms of social justice work. Yvonne holds a BA from Texas Tech
University, an MS from The New School for Social Research, and has
completed graduate studies in democracy and civil society at the
University of Cape Town.
In 2009 Yvonne was selected by the Association for Black Foundation
Executives as a Connecting Leaders Fellow and is a founding member
of New York City Blacks in Philanthropy. She currently serves as a trustee
of the New York Womens Foundation, and Cause Effective.
Davia Temin
CEO, Temin and Company
Davia Temin helps some of the worlds most prominent corporate and
public leaders and their organizations create, enhance, and save
reputations, adding value to their bottom lines and missions. Strategist,
marketer, spin doctor, crisis advisor, and leadership coach, Davia has spent
her entire career working to redefine the perception and impact of women
leaders. She coaches over 21 CEOs many women around the world.
Her work on over 14 major boards including First Vice Chair of Girl
Scouts of the USA and author of their $1 billion campaign for their
100th Anniversary helps girls and women realize their leadership
potential, and the world embrace, honor, and use that power for good.
Geri Thomas
SVP, Global Diversity & Inclusion Executive and Georgia Market President,
Bank of America
As Bank of Americas Global Diversity & Inclusion Executive and
Georgia Market President, Geri Thomas serves as chief strategist for
diversity and inclusion and drives business integration and corporate
social responsibility strategy across Georgia.
Since her first role in Consumer banking support in 1970, Geri has
blazed a trail of success over her forty years with the company.
Progressing through several Human Resources leadership roles,
she became global diversity and inclusion executive in 2002, and
Georgia Market President in 2009.
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Deborah Toppmeyer, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Chief of Solid Tumor Oncology and
Director of the Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center and
the LIFE Center at The Cancer Institute of NJ
Deborah Toppmeyer is also an associate professor of medicine at the
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Deborah is an expert in the treatment and genetics of breast cancer and
the design and implementation of clinical trials that offer promising new
targeted therapies. She helps her patients navigate through treatment
options while encouraging enrollment in clinical trials, and simultaneously
provides opportunities for students to learn cancer biology, cancer
pharmacology, genetics, and clinical care.
Barbara Winslow
Founder & Director, The Shirley Chisholm Project
Barbara Winslow, an academic and activist, attended the 1974 founding
convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, and spent much
of the seventies speaking to trade unionists about women's labor activism
and womens rights. She is a founder and officer of the Reproductive
Rights National Network and is a professor in the School of Education
and the Womens Studies Program at Brooklyn College. Barbara speaks and
writes about womens political activism, womens suffrage, second wave
feminism, and integrating women and gender into the schools curriculum.
She is the founder and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project of
Brooklyn Womens Activism, 1945 to the Present.
Miriam W. Yeung
Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum
Miriam Yeung guides the countrys only national, multi-issue, progressive
organization dedicated to social justice and human rights for Asian and
Pacific Islander women and girls in the US. With offices in New York City
and D.C., and chapters in 11 cities, NAPAWFs current priorities include
winning rights for immigrant women, making nail salons safer for workers,
conducting community-based participatory research with young API
women and ending human trafficking. Prior to NAPAWF, Miriam held
many positions during her 10-year career at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &
Transgender Community Center (the Center) in New York City. Born
in Hong Kong and raised in the projects of Brooklyn, Miriam is a proud
queer Asian-American immigrant woman activist who is committed to
social-justice movement building and raising her two daughters to be
fearless. Miriam also serves on the board of Generations Ahead.