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Gloria Steinem, Editor, Ms. Magazine
A devoted activist and writer, Gloria Steinem is undeniably one of
the most important voices of the modern feminist movement. Perhaps best
known as the co-founder of Ms. magazine, Ms. Steinem’s name is
synonymous with the advancement of women’s social equality in America
and throughout the world.
As Ms. magazine became a symbol of the
women’s rights movement, Gloria Steinem established the Ms. Foundation
for Women, devoted to helping the lives of women and girls in three main
categories: economic security, leadership, and health and safety. She
was a convener of the historic 1971 Women’s Political Caucus,
supported the founding of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, and is
president of Voters for Choice.
In her speeches, Ms. Steinem reflects on
the social movements of the past 4 decades in which she plays such a
crucial role. In her guide to “Feminism 101,” Ms. Steinem discusses
the politics of gender, education and the origins of hierarchy and
violence. She addresses the central issue as we move into a new century
of how we can foster a spirit of co-operation to continue the
advancement of the rights of all citizens, especially our children and
how the communities in which she speaks can empower themselves.
Dana Anderson, President
& Chief Executive Officer, Foote, Cone & Belding/Chicago
Since she came to FCB in 1997, FCB and its clients have benefited
greatly from Dana Anderson's leadership and strategic acumen. Named
President and CEO of the FCB Chicago office in 2001, she has primed the
agency for delivering the best creative solutions for clients including
ADM, Boeing, Circuit City, Coors, Kraft, SC Johnson and KFC. Dana
fosters a working environment where employees can flourish. She's
setting the strategy for attracting and retaining the best and brightest
talent to serve clients' increasingly diverse needs. And she has led the
charge for collaboration among departments making FCB more productive on
all levels.
Prior to her current responsibilities,
Dana was managing director of the agency and ran the Account Planning
Department. She started her career as a copywriter, moved over to
Account Management - selling everything from contact lenses to macaroni
and cheese - before mastering Account Planning. She came to FCB from J.
Walter Thompson where she was the Global Planner on Kraft. Before JWT,
Dana spent 10 years at Young & Rubicam.
Dana is the Women's Ad Club of Chicago's
2001 Ad Woman of the Year. She is a guest lecturer at Northwestern
University's Medill and Kellogg Schools, University of Chicago, Darden,
University of Colorado and Harvard University.
Dana is also a board member of the Off
the Street Club, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and a national
board member of the American Marketing Association.
Cheryl Berman, Chairman
& Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett Worldwide
Throughout her 29-year Burnett career, Cheryl R. Berman has been
responsible for some of the most creative, brand-building advertising
celebrated around the globe. She currently serves as Chairman and Chief
Creative Officer for Leo Burnett USA. In this role, she is responsible
for the agency's creative product as well as the administrative and
operational aspects of the creative and production staff.
Over the years she has composed theme
music for McDonald's, Walt Disney World and Kraft. While moonlighting,
Cheryl wrote a song celebrating the Chicago Bulls' 1996 NBA
Championship. "Only The Bulls" is now played at every home
game. She and her son Sam sang it during the team's pep rally in Grant
Park in June 1996.
Cheryl and her creative group have won a
plethora of industry awards and accolades including Andys, Addys, Effies,
Clios and Cannes Lions. In addition, Berman was named Chicago's 1997
"Ad Woman of the Year" by the Women's Advertising Club of
Chicago.
Berman joined Burnett in 1974 as a
copywriter -- a job she has called the best at the agency. She
progressed through the creative ranks, being named associate creative
director in 1978, vice president in 1981 and creative director in 1984.
By 1986, Berman had been promoted to senior vice president. She became a
group creative director in 1987 and added the executive vice president
title a year later.
In recognition of her contributions,
Berman became the first woman appointed to Burnett's board of directors
in 1994.
A Chicago native, Berman graduated from
the University of Illinois at Urbana with a B.A. in Journalism.
Susan Bordo, Professor of
English and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky
Susan Bordo is Professor of English and Women's Studies and holds
the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of
Kentucky. She is the author of The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on
Cartesianism and Culture (SUNY Press, 1987), Unbearable Weight:
Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (U. of California Press, 1993),
Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.
(U. of California Press, 1997) and The Male Body: A New Look at Men in
Public and in Private (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1999.) She is also
editor of Feminist Interpretations of Descartes (Penn State Press,1999)
and co-editor (with Alison Jaggar) of Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist
Reconstructions of Being and Knowing (Rutgers University Press, 1989.)
She lectures nationally on contemporary culture and the body, featuring
topics such as eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, beauty and
evolutionary theory, racism and the body, masculinity and the male body,
sexual harassment, and the impact of contemporary media.
In the words of Susan Squier, professor
of literature at Penn State University, Bordo's writings "can be
said to have catalyzed the birth of the new interdisciplinary field of
work known as `body studies'." Unbearable Weight, a University of
California Press best seller whose 10th anniversary edition will be
published in 2003, was the first book to draw attention to the profound
role of cultural images in the spread of eating problems across race and
class. It is widely cited, discussed and anthologized and used in
courses throughout the disciplines. Named a Notable Book of 1993 by the
New York Times, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and received a
Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women In
Psychology. Columnist Katha Pollitt named it one of the five best books
in Women's Studies of 1993. The Chronicle of Higher Education did a
major piece on the book and Bordo's influential work on cultural images
of the body.
Anne Dooley, EVP Client Service
Director, BBDO/Chicago
Since joining BBDO in 1997, Anne has been responsible for leading
the Agency's efforts on behalf of DowBrand, Bayer Consumer Care, Roche
Diagnostics Corp. and Allied Domeqc Spirits. She was instrumental in
winning the advertising assignments for Jim Beams Bourbon and Vox
brands, Roche's Accu-Chek and Bayer's Aspirin, Midol, One-A-Day and
Alka-Seltzer brands. Within six months of joining BBDO, her colleagues
awarded her the "Creating a World of Difference" award in
recognition of her leadership skills and passionate commitment to
excellence.
Prior to joining BBDO, Anne spent four
years on the client side with Kraft Foods in the Meals Division.
Anne began her career at Leo Burnett
where she played an integral role on the P&G and Kellogg's accounts,
contributing to outstanding advertising campaigns, successful new
product introductions, and the creation of direct marketing programs for
P&G brands like Cheer, Pert and Luvs and Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.
Fay Ferguson, Managing Director,
Burrell Communications
Joining Burrell 19 years ago was a life-changing event for me.
Having worked in advertising at Leo Burnett and Bozell & Jacobs for
a number of years, I was confident in my ability to help develop
relevant, insightful strategies that would result in great,
business-building creative. What was missing was a meaningful connection
between my work and my community. Burrell, an agency that specializes in
communications to the urban youth market and to African-Americans,
provides that link.
As a Managing Director, I help shape the
course for the agency and take seriously our role relative to the
portrayal of African-Americans for our various clients; clients such as
McDonald's, General Mills, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, and Sears just
to name a few.
Prior to my advertising career, I taught
eighth grade English for two years in Michigan City, Indiana. I have a
Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Speech and Drama from Concordia
College in Minnesota where I graduated magna cum laude. I also earned an
MBA from Indiana University.
Cheryl Greene, Managing Partner, Chief
Strategy Officer, Deutsch, Inc.
Cheryl brings to all of her endeavors both experience and youth, yin
and yang, a conservative outside and a radical inside, Midwestern roots
and a passion for New York, flow of the Tao and just-plain-silliness, as
well as a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-it-done attitude. She believes in
achieving greater success by "doing for everyone, rather than
oneself."
Cheryl joined Deutsch in 1992 and has
helped it grow into a $2.4 billion marketing communications company with
blue chip clients such as Mitsubishi Motors, Novartis Pharmaceuticals,
Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and many other dynamic brands, including
Coors and Snapple. In her role as managing partner and chief strategy
officer, she helps lead accounts such as Revlon, Monster, Tommy Hilfiger,
and MCI. Over the span of her 20-year career, she has worked on an array
of clients, including Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, and General
Foods. She has built and shaped one of the best Account Planning
departments in the country by maintaining high standards for traditional
skills (such as quantitative research) and by hiring only nice people.
Cheryl has a B.A. from Barnard College in
American Studies and an M.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma. She is a
member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Honor Society in Business and
Management. Among her list of memberships: the New York Board of
Governors of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) and
a Board Member of the National Advertising Review Board (NARB).
Judy Lotas, Partner, LPNY
Ltd.
Lotas and her partners opened their advertising agency on May Day,
1986. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President and Executive
Creative Director of one of The Interpublic Group's global advertising
networks.
LPNY Ltd. is a strategic/creative shop
with a particular expertise in women's health, beauty, image brands and
public service. Recent campaigns include the "Quit Yet?"
anti-smoking effort; "Fun Fearless Female" for Cosmopolitan
Magazine; "Born to Lead" for CosmoGIRL and "Mothers &
Shakers" for Redbook. They also work internationally with
Mead-Johnson Nutritionals of Bristol Myers Squibb as well as CibaVision.
Lotas was elected to the Academy of Women
Achievers of the YWCA of the City of New York. Advertising Age named her
one of the "100 Best and Brightest Women in
Advertising/Marketing". She was honored by Florida State University
as a Graduate of Distinction. In 1993, Advertising Women of New York
named Lotas "Advertising Woman of the Year". In 1994, she
joined the Creative Review Board of the Ad Council and served on the
Council's Board of Directors
Long involved in community affairs, Lotas
helped convene the first Board of Directors for the Women's Venture
Fund. She's worked on behalf of The National Coalition for the Homeless,
The Dwelling Place for Homeless Women, The New York Women's Foundation
and is currently very involved with the Afghan American Peace Corps.
Jan Murley, former
Marketing Director, Hallmark Cards
Jan L. Murley became group vice president of Hallmark Cards, Inc.,
the world's largest publisher of greeting cards and related products in
September, 1999 and resigned from that position in September, 2002. She
was responsible for the North American P(L), strategic planning,
marketing, new business development, acquisitions, branded retail and
corporate brand management for all consumer products, services,
entertainment and retail. Prior to that, she was employed by Procter
& Gamble for over 20+ years, most recently as vice president for
global skin care and personal cleansing.
Jan currently serves as a director of The
Clorox Company and works as an independent consultant.
Tonise Paul, President
& Chief Executive Officer, BBDO/Chicago
Tonise joined BBDO in 1983 as an Account Executive and rose through
the ranks of account management. She was appointed President and CEO of
BBDO Chicago in August of 1995. Since that time, BBDO has experienced
tremendous growth and has tripled its client base adding new clients
like Bayer, Jim Beam Brands and Sara Lee Coffee & Tea. In April
1999, Tonise was elected to the BBDO Worldwide Board of Directors in
recognition of her outstanding contributions.
In addition to her leadership role at
BBDO, she is the president of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF/Chicago. She
is also a member of the boards of The Executive's Club of Chicago and
the University of Illinois College of Communications. She is a member of
The Economics Club and The Commercial Club of Chicago.
Tonise has been recognized by the Women's
Advertising Club of Chicago as "Advertising Woman of the Year"
(1999). Crain's Chicago Business included her in their exclusive
"Forty Under 40" and for the past 6 years have included her in
their "Who's Who in Chicago Business" issue. She was inducted
into the Academy of Women Achievers of the YWCA of New York, an
organization that recognizes the accomplishments of the most dynamic,
successful women in the country. Tonise was honored by the Chancellor of
the University of Illinois as Chicago Illini of the Year (1998).
Amy Richards, of "Ask Amy"
Amy Richards is a writer, activist, and research and organizational
consultant. She has been described as both the Gloria Steinem of her
generation and a Martha Stewart wannabe, and it's this unique and varied
perspective that makes Amy's work accessible and inspiring to an array
of audiences. In 1995, Who Cares Magazine chose her as one of
twenty-five Young Visionaries and in 1997 Ms. magazine profiled her in
"21 for the 21st: Leaders for the Next Century."
Amy's work with young women is most
visible through her work with the Third Wave Foundation, an organization
she co-founded and of which she currently serves on the executive
committee. Third Wave is the first and only national organization
working with young women between the ages of 15 and 30. As a non-profit
activist philanthropic organization, the Third Wave Foundation provides
crucial financial resources and organizational support to young women.
Under Amy's leadership, Third Wave has sponsored a number of public
education campaigns, including "Why Vote?," a series of panel
discussions on funding for the arts, education, reproductive rights, and
affirmative action, and Freedom Summers '92 and '96, massive voter
registration and voter education drives. Most recently, Amy helped Third
Wave create and launch "I Spy Sexism," a public education and
postcard campaign encouraging people to take action on the injustices
that they witness every day. Amy is instrumental in creating and hosting
successful fundraising events in order to maintain the organization's
annual budget of $500,000.
Amy is also the person behind "Ask
Amy," an online activist advice column located at www.feminist.com.
After feminist.com started receiving a range of email queries ranging
from "how do I start a local feminist group" to "how do I
report workplace discrimination," Amy created this resource for the
thousands of people who previously thought they had nowhere to turn.
Here she fields over twenty questions daily on topics ranging from
sexual harassment laws to the media's representation of women.
Throughout all of this, Amy has worked as
a consultant to Gloria Steinem, the Ms. Foundation for Women, First
Peoples Worldwide, Voters for Choice, and Scenarios USA among other
places. She is also a contributing editor to Ms. magazine and recently
was the Interim Director of Twilight: Los Angeles, a film project
created by Anna Deavere Smith, which aired nationally on PBS. Her
writings are anthologized in: Listen Up! Voices from the Next Feminist
Generation (Seal Press, 1994), Adios Barbie (Seal Press, 1998), Letters
of Intent (The Free Press, 1999) and The Bust Guide to the New Girl
Order (Penguin, 1999); and can be found in The Nation, Ms., The New
Internationalist, the Los Angeles Times, and Bust.
Jennifer Scanlon, Associate Professor
of History, Bowdoin College
Jennifer Scanlon, an award-winning teacher and scholar, is associate
professor and director of women's studies at Bowdoin College. Her main
area of research is consumer culture, with a particular focus on the
historical relationship between women's magazines and advertising. She
is the author of Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal,
Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture, editor of The
Gender and Consumer Culture Reader, and author of numerous articles
on consumer culture and feminist pedagogy. Her current research focuses
on Ruth Whitney, Glamour magazine, and the relationship between
mainstream women's magazines and the second wave of the feminist
movement.
Linda Scott, Symposium
Chair, University of Illinois
Linda M. Scott is Associate Professor of Advertising, Women's
Studies, and the School of Art & Design at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is also Research Associate Professor of
the Institute of Communications Research. Professor Scott holds a B.A.,
an M.A., and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as
an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.
Her research interests focus on the
history of consumer culture in America, with particular emphasis on
images and on women. Professor Scott teaches "Classic
Campaigns" and "Women in Advertising" at the
undergraduate level. At the graduate level, she teaches special project
courses as well as doctoral seminars on consumer culture and visual
theory. Her most recent scholarly work is a book, Persuasive Imagery:
A Consumer Response Perspective. She serves on the board of the
Advertising Educational Foundation, as well as several editorial boards.
Linda Smolak, Professor
of Psychology, Kenyon College
Linda Smolak is Professor of Psychology and Women's and Gender
Studies at Kenyon College. She received her Ph.D. from Temple University
in 1980. She has published numerous articles and chapters as well as
several books in the area of body image and eating disorders. Her most
recent volumes were both published by the American Psychological
Association (Eating Disorders: Innovations in Research and Practice;
Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity in Youth: Assessment,
Prevention, and Treatment). She is currently co-authoring a book,
with Michael P. Levine, entitled The Prevention of Eating Problems
and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, and Practice (Erlbaum). She
has served as a consultant on several research projects, including the
McKnight Risk Factor Study, and several prevention projects, including
with the Office on Women's Health. She is a member of the editorial
board of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention
and Body Image: An International Journal of Research.
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