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2009 International Summit Speaker Bios
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Carol Jenkins
Carol Jenkins is President of the Women’s Media Center and a Founding member of its Board of Directors. Carol is a writer and producer, an Emmy award winning former television anchor and correspondent with WNBC-TV in New York. She is the author, with her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines, of Black Titan and, A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. She served as the executive producer of the PBS documentary, What I want My Words To Do To You, which won The Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. She is a national spokeswoman for women and the media, arguing the case for inclusion of women throughout the media: in ownership positions, at the highest levels of management and creativity, as well as the telling of women’s stories in television and film, radio, print, and online. |
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Gail Evans
Love the Game…With those words Gail Evans concludes one of the most successful and influential books about women in the workplace, “Play Like a Man, Win Like A Woman”. Gail also wrote the book, “She Wins, You Win” and has a weekly radio segment “It’s Not Just a Man’s World,” which is syndicated to 1900 CNN Radio affiliates across the United States. Gail began her career at CNN at its inception in 1980. By the time she retired in 2001, she was its Executive Vice President. During that time she was responsible for program and talent development at all CNN’s domestic networks overseeing national and international talk shows and the Network Guest Bookings Department, which schedules about 25,000 guests each year. Gail is national speaker and lecturer and speaks about how women can create their own Rules and how to play by them. |
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Laura Liswood
In August 1996, Laura Liswood co-founded the Council of Women World Leaders and serves as the Secretary General of the Council, which is composed of current and former women presidents, prime ministers, and heads of government. Laura is currently a Senior Advisor at Goldman Sachs & co, which she joined in 2001 as the Managing Director of Global Leadership and Diversity. In 1997, she co-founded The White House Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to electing a woman president of the United States. He work with women presidents and prime ministers was the inspiration for the Project, which aims to inspire a paradigm change in the United States about women as leaders. As director of the Harvard Women’s Leadership Project, she identified global leadership contributions made by women heads of state. Her discussions with fifteen current and former women presidents and prime ministers are chronicled in her most recent book and video documentary, Women World Leaders. A nationally recognized speaker, author, and advisor, Laura has worked to foster women’s leadership for more than twenty years. Laura was awarded ATHENA’s highest honor in 1999 when she was named the International ATHENA Award Recipient. |
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