Majora Carter was born, raised, and continues to live and work in the South Bronx. But her career takes her around the world in pursuit of resources and ideas to improve the quality of life in her environmentally challenged community. In 2001, she founded Sustainable South Bronx, writing a $1.25M Federal Transportation grant to design the South Bronx Greenway with 11 miles of bike and pedestrian paths. That project secured over $20 million in funds.

Ms. Carter has been instrumental in creating riverfront parks, building green roofs, and working to remove the Sheridan Expressway in favor of positive economic development. She successfully implemented the Bronx Environmental

Stewardship Training (BEST) program-a pioneering green-collar job training and placement system-seeding her community with a skilled workforce that has both a personal and economic stake in their urban environment.

She believes that self-image is influenced by surroundings so those surroundings should be beautiful! Her vision drive and tenacity earned her a MacArthur "Genius" Grant. recognitions include being named one of Newsweek's "25 To Watch" Essence Magazine's &most Influential African Americans" in 2007, the "50 influential women NYC" NY Post for past two years "NYC's environmentalist#8221; BBC World Service.

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a Professor of Law at UCLA and at Columbia Law School. Writing in the area of Civil Rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law, her articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Southern California Law Review.

Professor Crenshaw has lectured widely nationally and internationally on race and gender matters. Her work was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution. In 2001, she played a key role in the United Nation's World Conference on Racism, serving as the Rapporteur for the Expert Group on Race and Gender and coordinating the NGO forum to facilitate the inclusion of gender in the WCAR Conference Declaration. In the domestic arena, she has served as a member of the National Science Foundation's committee to research violence against women.

Professor Crenshaw is a founding member of the Women's Media Initiative and is a regular commentator on NPR's "The Tavis Smiley Show." She was twice awarded Professor of the Year at UCLA Law School and was recently featured in Essence Magazine, "The Beautiful Ones: 35 of the Most Remarkable Women in the World."

Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling author, a breast cancer survivor, a mom, and a grandmother.

She began her career at CBS, and then moved to NBC News where, after years covering national politics, she pioneered the late-night news program NBC News Overnight, which she wrote and anchored. Overnight was cited by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program ever." In 1986, Ms. Ellerbee moved to ABC News to anchor and write Our World, which won her an Emmy.

In 1987, Ms. Ellerbee and Rolfe Tessem, her partner, quit network news to start Lucky Duck Productions. In 1991, Lucky Duck began producing Nick News for Nickelodeon with Ellerbee writing and hosting. Seventeen years later, Nick News is watched by more children than watch all other television news shows put together—and has earned honors traditionally associated with adult programming. Nick News has collected three Peabody Awards, a duPont Columbia Award, and five Emmys.

Lucky Duck has and continues to produce primetime specials for ABC, CBS, HBO, PBS, Lifetime, MTV, Logo, A&E, MSNBC, SOAPnet, Trio, Animal Planet and TV Land, among others. Ms. Ellerbee was honored with an Emmy for her series, When I Was a Girl, which aired on WE: Women’s Entertainment network.

Each of Ms. Ellerbee’s adult books—And So It Goes, Move On, and Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table—have been bestsellers.
 

Jane Fonda is an Academy Award winning actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations.

In addition to acting, Ms. Fonda started her own production company, IPC Films. Her credits include Fun With Dick and Jane, Coming Home, The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, Rollover, On Golden Pond, The Morning After and The Dollmaker.

Having enjoyed tremendous success as a stage and screen actress, Ms. Fonda now focuses much of her time on activism and social change – with much of her work devoted to the program she founded in 1995, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention. She has long been known for activism and advocacy on environmental issues, human rights, and the empowerment of women and girls.

Ms. Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry with the production of 23 home exercise videos, 13 audio recordings, and five books – selling 16 million copies all together. The original Jane Fonda’s Workout video remains the top grossing home video of all time.

In May 2005, Random House published Fonda’s memoirs, “My Life So Far,” which immediately went to #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list. That same spring “Monster-in-Law,” her first film in 15 years, also became the #1 box office hit making Fonda the first person to simultaneously have a #1 book and #1 movie.

Cathy L. Greenberg is a recognized expert on the science of happiness and best-selling co-author of What Happy Companies Know and What Happy Women Know. With two decades of real world experience, Ms. Greenberg focuses on the successful integration of business strategies and human performance to make everyone a happy, high performing contributor.

Ms. Greenberg holds a Ph.D in the behavioral sciences and is an internationally recognized authority on human behavior. She is a former managing partner in two of the world's largest consulting firms, Accenture and CSC, and the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Strategic Leadership at the LeBow College of Business, Drexel University.

Her most recent book, What Happy Women Know, was featured in Oprah Magazine and Glamour as well as the Top 200 Radio News and Talk Shows. She and a team of world wide experts, including Warren Bennis, completed the most comprehensive work to date on developing the executive of the future. Her book, Global Leadership: Next Generation, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, is ranked as the #1 leadership book on Amazon.com and HBR. Currently, Ms. Greenberg is the founding partner in a new venture, h2c: Happy Companies Healthy People, What Happy Brands, and the h2c Leadership Foundation.

Maria Otero is one of the world's leading voices on how to make globalization work for the poor. She serves on the advisory board of the Clinton Global Initiative and has a long resume of senior staff and board positions in other international organizations concerned with poverty and finance.

She is president and CEO of ACCION International, a leading global microfinance institution that works to open the financial systems in developing countries to reach the poor.

Ms. Otero has published extensively on world poverty and has special expertise in microfinance. She was co-editor of the book, The New World of Microfinance. Ms. Otero is also a well-respected advocate for women and women's issues and speaks from personal experience on women in leadership. In 2005, she was profiled in Newsweek's special report, "How Women Lead" as one of 20 of the most influential women in the United States. In 2000, she received Hispanic Magazine's "Latina Excellence Award" and was also featured in Latina magazine.

Ms. Otero has been an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies since 1997. She was born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia, and now lives in Washington, D.C.

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