APublic Schedule
SPEECHES, PANELS, APPEARANCES:
2011
Decmber 15, 2001. Conversation, Funding for Women and Girls. With Ana Olivera , NYWomen’s FOundation and Simon Greer, Nathan Cummings FOunation. PhilanthropyNY
December 02, 2011 MC, Gala Luncheon for exhibit Freedom”s Sisters, Shabazz Center.
December 01, 2011 Panelist, Black Women in Media, CUNY Journalism School.
November 30, 2011 Presenter at Women’s Media Center gala.
November, 2011 Introduction of Jeff Madrick, author of The Age of Greed at HueMan Bookstore, Harlem. CSPAN Booknotes.
November 09, 2011 Presenter at Women’s eNews Philadelphia Leaders dinner
October 25, 2011 Host of AMREF reception, Cornell Club
October 18, 2011 Guest on Rosie O’Donnell’s Doc Club, post screening of Miss Representation on OWN
September 26, 2011: Audacia Conference. Speaker, Education for Every Girl Everywhere
September 08, 2011 Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina. Reading of Black Titan for Freshman Class. Dedication of A.G. Gaston Chair in Hospitality.
August, 2011: BlogHer Conference, Closing Keynote Panel on Women in Media
August, 2011: Women’s Media Center, Media Training for Corporate Women
July 23, 2011: CSPAN Conversation with Dr. Julliane Malveaux on Black Wealth: Past and Future. Harlem Book Fair
July 17, 2011: Women’s Media Center, Progressive Women’s Voices Media Training
June 26, 2011: Opportunity Agenda, Communications Training for Non-Profit Leaders
May, 2011: National Center for Women & Information Technology Summit. NYC. Panelist, Innovation, The Future of Technology, and Women’s Participation.
April 16, 2011: Black Male Initiative. Empire State College. NYC. Panelist in discussion of The Status of the African American Man in Media.
April 14, 2011: African Medical & Research Foundation Annual Luncheon. NYC. MC of Awards presentations.
April 8, 2011: Women’s Funding Network Annual Conference. NYC. MC of Awards luncheon.
February 12, 2011: Athena Film Festival, Barnard College. NYC. Conversation with filmmaker Jennifer Seibel-Newsom about women and girls in the media. Post screening of her Miss Representation documentary.
January 28, 2011: WHO/Workforce Alliance Conference. Bangkok, Thailand. Invited Panelist at International conference on building the developing world’s health workforce. Panel topic: The UN Secretary-General’s Goals for the Health of Women and Children.
January 8, 2011: Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Los Angeles. Panelist with Gloria Steinem and Florence Howe on the author Marilyn French: The Making of an Iconic Writer.
Selected pre-2011
Monrovia, Liberia. Moderated Women’s Colloquium called by Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Norway’s President. Introduction of presidents of African countries and members of government. 2008
Moderated 2-day Conference with women world leaders examining the issues of security and participation at the peace table. 2007
The Gruber Prize. Conducted conversation with the winners of the $500,000 annual Gruber Prize for Women at the awards ceremony. NYC. September, 2010
National Council on Research on Women/CitiBank. Conversation on Women and Leadership with Joanna Barsh of McKinsey and Linda Tarr-Whelan of Demos May, 2010
Women’s eNews 21 Leaders Awards. Presenter. May, 1010
Reading from book Black Titan at Breakthrough.org’s A Night of Authors, Harvard Club, 2010
National Council on Research of Women Conference. Moderator of panel on Women in the International Sphere. June 2010
Athena International Leader’s Summit. Keynote speech on Women in the Media. Chicago, 2009.
Breastfeeding Medicine Summit. Media and Maternal Issues. Washington, DC. 2009
Time Warner Summit: Politics 2008: The Media Conference for the Election of the President. Women and the 2008 Election. Playing Politics with Gender–Media, Candidates and the Majority Vote. October, 2008
Testified before the FCC on the subject of women and people of color participating in media. 2008.
