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  • Karen Offen, Ph.D. on “Global Women’s History Encounters the Politics of Knowledge”

    Karen will enlighten us on what women's history is today and why this growing body of revolutionary knowledge threatens and transforms the old-style histories written mostly by men -- the history you learned in school. She'll also present a short video on the" Imagining Ourselves" exhibit from the International Museum of Women (San Francisco; www.imow.org ). Karen …

  • Judge Polly Webber on “Why Immigration is Key to America’s Future”

    Immigration Judge Polly Webber will discuss one of the hottest topics today: Immigration in America. Although Judge Webber can't take sides, she will shed light on the issues behind the guest worker program, temporary professional workers, and fingerprinting of visitors to the US as well as proposals for driver's licenses for illegal aliens. She will …

  • A more sustainable energy future

    Jane Woodward is a founding shareholder of Mineral Acquisition Partners, Inc. (MAP) and serves as its President and CEO.

  • The case for women’s colleges in the 21st century

    With so many women obtaining college degrees and pursuing professional careers in the past 40 years, you'd assume gender equity would no longer be an in issue in the 21st century. Sadly, this is not the case.

  • Flying solo, traveling by yourself

    Teresa Rodriguez Williamson is a jet-setter extraordinaire. She discovered that traveling can be the perfect antidote for anything ailing the soul.

  • A life of spiritual and artistic trailblazing and innovations

    Christina Bernal has lived a life more fascinating than fiction. When she was 14, she became the youngest dancer to join the San Francisco Ballet Company. Then at 18, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart to live a contemplative life as a nun. She thought she would never dance again but she was …

  • Women in sports

    Anne Warner Cribbs is a tour de force for all things Olympic. As a 14-year-old swimmer, she won gold in the 1959 Pan American Games. The next year as the American record-holder, Anne swam to fifth in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the 200-meter breaststroke and another gold as the breaststroker on the USA 4x100 medley relay team.

  • Jane Frommer on Nano-technology

    Jane Frommer is a scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center where she runs a lab involved in research in the basic sciences that form the underpinnings of nanotechnology. Since getting her Ph.D. from Caltech's chemistry department in organometallic chemistry, her research has focused primarily on organic materials in the solid state with the approach …