As VP Community Development and Support, Robin Harper is responsible for shaping the evolution of the rapidly growing community of Second Life users. This includes facilitating communication at all levels, interfacing between users and Linden lab on issues of social mores and technical development, and ensuring inspired creativity never veers into total anarchy. Prior to …
Members Only Minutes: Members Salon
Karyn Barsa is a dynamic speaker who was formerly CEO of Smith & Hawken and COO/CFO of Patagonia, two vibrant organizations that serve as models for values-centered leadership around the world. With a career that includes investment banking, commercial banking and turnaround corporate finance, Ms. Barsa has specialized in opportunities to meld business and social …
Professor Ridolfi was a part of the first group of lawyers and social scientists to develop the expertise of jury consulting. In 1976, she joined the National Jury Project and opened their Northeast Regional Office where she was co-director. In 1978, she became a national trial consultant for the Women's Self-Defense Law project, a project …
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 …
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 …
Members Only Minutes: Annual Member's Meeting
Jane Woodward is a founding shareholder of Mineral Acquisition Partners, Inc. (MAP) and serves as its President and CEO.
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.
Susan Lucas-Conwell, CEO of SDForum, will share amusing anecdotes and insights from her unexpected personal and professional journey from Manhattan to Paris to Silicon Valley.
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson is a jet-setter extraordinaire. She discovered that traveling can be the perfect antidote for anything ailing the soul.
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 …
