Elana has an incredible background in media including developing award-winning documentaries for KQED, working with Bill Moyers, and working with George Lucas in his non-profit institute. In 1995, she founded Just Think to teach media literacy for the 21st century. The foundation helps kids, teachers, and parents to learn to develop critical thinking about media …
This was a members-only open discussion. The topic was the role of community and spirituality in our lives and what Thursday Morning Dialogue can do to create a better sense of community within our own organization.
Dian spoke to us about the mission of and services provided by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate. This organization has three basic functions: medical services, education and advocacy. It provides comprehensive reproductive health care and comprehensive health care for women.
Mary Singleton is a distinguished scientist who worked at Lawrence Livermore Labs as Nuclear Facilities Manager and Research Chemist. She is now retired. She is extremely active in issues related to science and to women. She brought a still active class action suit against Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Labs for salary inequity for women. She spoke …
Warm, open, funny, actor/teacher/coach extraordinaire, Rebecca's stories were worth getting up early to hear. She's been a member of BATS Company and Coaching Staff since 1989 and has been Dean of BATS School of Improv since 1992. Prior to joining BATS, Rebecca was a coach and player with Seattle Theatresports. She performed her first improv …
Elizabeth shared stories from her new book, "Dotcom Divas: E-Business Insights from the Visionary Women Founders of 20 Net Ventures." The book profiles 20 women-founded Internet companies, and is packed with a lot of valuable info and inspiring stories for any entrepreneur or Internet professional. Elizabeth is a coach for women in technology and women …
Ms. Colton is a devoted advocate for and philanthropist to both women's causes and San Francisco political campaigns. A campaign consultant for more than twenty years, Ms. Colton directed her own political and public affairs consulting firm. In this capacity, she has worked with many of the leading museums in San Francisco, including the deYoung …
Kimberly Wiefling is the founder and principal of Wiefling Consulting. She works with leaders of rapidly changes organizations to implement practical, common sense business leadership and program management solutions that get RESULTS! And these results are not the result of heroics or fire-fighting, but predictable and most importantly, reproducible. Kimberly's philosophy in a nutshell: "Business …
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 …
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 …
