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CHRISTINA BRUNING
is a 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, recognized by Women's eNews for stretching her reach across cultures. Christina served as the project manager for the US Library Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation's US Library Program was a five-year, $250 million investment in public libraries throughout the United States, providing approximately 47,000 computers in 11,000 buildings, 62,000 training opportunities, Internet connections, and support to increase access to digital information and software tools for underserved populations. Christina led the coordination of activities to achieve the program objectives. She enjoys traveling, exploring the outdoors, hiking and cycling.
MAYA GARCIA
Founding president of nonprofit Spark, Maya Garcia envisioned an organization that would empower young professional women in local communities to address social, political and economic issues that women face globally by creating a local network and working with grassroots women’s groups worldwide.
Garcia now lives in Dubai to be with her future husband and it still active in Spark.
GORDON GRAY
Gray received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and two graduate degrees from Columbia University, one in Middle Eastern languages and cultures and one in journalism, class of 1977.
Gray was a newspaper reporter for four years and entered the family business in the area of media, cable, radio and most recently magazines. His interest in Women's eNews is a natural outgrowth of his studies and experience. He sees Women's eNews as an enormous opportunity to empower women globally. Gray was the force behind creating the Arabic version of the site to help increase awareness of Arabic culture and language, as well as give Arabic-speaking women in the world a valuable source of reliable information. As a philanthropist, he's been a lifetime supporter of education and the arts.
RITA HENLEY JENSEN
Henley Jensen is founder and editor in chief of Women's eNews.
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JURATE KAZICKAS
Kazickas was born in Lithuania and came to America in 1947. A graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C. she is a former newspaper reporter. She has covered the war in Vietnam, the Middle East, and the Carter White House and writes for numerous magazines. She is also the co-author of books on women’s history, including "Susan B. Anthony Slept Here" and most recently, "War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam." Kazickas has been active in refugee relief work, traveling to Bosnia, Rwanda and Afghanistan and sits on several nonprofit boards. She is the president of the Kazickas Family Foundation with offices in Vilnius and New York where she lives with her husband, Roger Altman and their three children.
 MARCY McGINNIS
Legal affairs journalist Marcy McGinnis was senior vice president of news coverage, CBS News from June 2001 through November 2005. She was responsible for CBS News' worldwide news gathering and hard news coverage--including breaking news and crisis coverage--as well as all hard-news broadcasts and the operation and staffing of all domestic and overseas bureaus. In that capacity, McGinnis was at the helm of the newsgathering operation during coverage of the attacks of Sept. 11 and was one of the primary architects of CBS News' award-winning coverage of the war in Iraq. She was based in New York since she was named vice president of news coverage in 1997.
Before that, McGinnis had been vice president, Europe, and London bureau chief for CBS News (1995-97), responsible for the day-to-day newsgathering of the CBS News London bureau and for overseeing the division's coverage in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. She also managed CBS News' business relationships with European-based broadcasters. McGinnis has won three Emmy Awards for CBS News' coverage of the death of Princess Diana.
She was deputy bureau chief and director, CBS NEWSPATH, Europe (1992-95). In that position, McGinnis helped direct all newsgathering in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and the daily operation of the CBS News London bureau. She formed and managed CBS News' cooperative service of international news broadcasters, now known as ENEX. (CBS NEWSPATH is the world's largest newsgathering system and is supplied to CBS Television network affiliates and international broadcast clients.) Prior to that, she was executive producer of CBS NEWSPATH (1989-92), responsible for all CBS News services to CBS affiliates and regional news cooperatives, as well as broadcasters in Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. McGinnis was senior producer in charge of CBS NEWSPATH's coverage of special events (1985-89).
Before her NEWSPATH tenure, McGinnis was a producer in the CBS News special events unit (1982-85), where she produced reports and live remotes throughout the United States--including during Campaign '84--and in Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Europe and Asia. She held a variety of positions in that unit, including associate producer (l976-82), assistant producer (l973 76) and administrative assistant (l970-73).
McGinnis is a native of Allenhurst, N.J. She graduated with honors from Marymount University in Arlington, Va. McGinnis holds an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, as well as from Hofstra University's School of Communication. She is on the board of the Overseas Press Club, Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communications, Women's eNews and is in advisory roles with the International Women in Media Foundation and SUNY at Stonybrook. She lives in New York.
SAMUEL F. PRYOR III
Born in New York City in 1928, Pryor attended Taft School, Yale University and University of Pennsylvania Law School. He entered the Marine Corps in 1953 and retired in 1955 as a captain in the reserve. As the Korean War ended and he received his commission, he spent his second year as an assistant to the Commandant and assigned to the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps.
Sam joined the law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell at the start of 1956 and remained with the firm until his retirement in 1998. In 1964 he started the firm's Paris office where he remained with his family for over three years.
His practice was corporate, and largely corporate finance, representing JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney & Company, and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. Foreign clients were a large part of his practice, representing the British government on the sale of British Petroleum and British Airways. He also represented the Italian, Spanish governments and the Republic of China in international transactions, as well as a number of French banks, including Crédit Lyonnais, Bank de Paris and Societe Generale. In the U.S., he represented RJR Nabisco, Exxon and AT&T on financial transactions.
He has had many interests in the not-for-profit area. He has been an Overseer of the Penn Law School, president of the Appalachian Mountain Club, vice-chairman of the Church Pension Fund, and co-chair of the Republican Majority for Choice. Currently, he is chairman of the World Rehabilitation Fund and the Westchester Land Trust and serves on the boards of the League of Conservation Voters, the National Forest Foundation, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the New York Chapter of the Republican Majority for Choice and Women's eNews. He joined the board of Women's eNews because he wanted to expand his knowledge of women's issues to support his efforts in the Republican Party.
MARGARITA QUIHUIS
is the founder of Indigo Financiera and a 2004-2005 Reuters Fellow, Stanford University. Currently a social entrepreneur Margarita Quihuis' career has ranged from developing high-end aerospace systems to gender-focused design to leading the pioneering Women's Technology Cluster business incubator and most recently as a venture capitalist and Reuters Fellow at Stanford.
Her current efforts include financial innovation for the unbanked both in the United States and in developing countries and encouraging technological innovation on behalf of humanitarian needs. In 2004, she was recognized by Women's eNews as a '21 Leaders for the 21st Century for her efforts in increasing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and was named as one of WITI's women to watch in 2003.
CARYL RIVERS
is professor of journalism at Boston University. Rivers' newest book, "Men and Women Are From Earth," with Dr. Rosaline Barnett of Harvard is about the future of the sexes. The funding for an independent film version of her novel, "Virgins," about Catholic girls coming of age, is just about complete, and there are early plans underway for a film of her newest novel, "Camelot," set in the Kennedy years. Her latest book with Dr. Barnett, "She Works, He Works," won the first National Books for A Better Life award. She often writes commentary for such publications as the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe.
 JILL H. TEITEL
practices in the areas of commercial litigation, arbitration, secured transactions, and estate planning and related litigation. She is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts of New York, New Jersey and Colorado. She is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1996) and Binghamton University (B.A. political science and east asian studies, 1992.) Teitel actively participates on the arbitration and the international commercial dispute resolution committees at the City Bar of New York. She volunteers as an arbitrator for the New York City Civil Court in Kings County and assists battered women for the Brooklyn Bar Association, Volunteer Lawyers Project. Teitel is the co-author of the chapter entitled "United States Secured Transactions Law" for International Secured Transactions published by the Center for International Legal Studies, located in Salzburg, Austria. She has lectured in the areas of contracts, business organizations, secured transactions, arbitration, electronic discovery and domestic violence issues in the United States, Argentina and Austria. Teitel is proficient in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Japanese. She also has been appointed as an associate dediator at the Centro Interdisciplinario el Manejo de Conflictos AC, an organization based in Mexico City for mediating conflicts.
 DAVIA B. TEMIN,
an international marketing and branding strategist and public affairs counsel, is president of Temin and Company Incorporated, international strategic marketing, branding and public affairs counsel.
Temin and Company helps corporations and other institutions define and strengthen their public image and identity through strategic marketing and positioning, media relations and coaching, advertising, financial communications, crisis management and communications. Clients include some of the country's largest and most well-known corporations, financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, law firms, consulting firms, publishing houses, venture capital funds, high tech and biotech companies, colleges and universities. Prior to starting Temin and Company, Temin was corporate vice president and head of corporate marketing of General Electric Capital Services, the global diversified financial services company with 27 specialized businesses and assets of over $250 billion. Reporting to the chairman and CEO of GE Capital, Temin was responsible for the marketing strategy, crisis communications, corporate identity, media relations, advertising, publications, special events and sponsorships of the corporation as well as its 27 businesses around the world. Previously, from 1990 to 1995, Temin was the vice president and director of marketing of Schroders, the international investment bank. She was spokesperson for the firm and headed up crisis communications, press relations, advertising, corporate identity, product and corporate marketing, presentation and media training, publications and corporate contributions. She also consulted with the firm's clients, providing crisis communications and investor and public relations counsel to them as needed. She created and was the producer of the extremely successful entertainment industry conference "The Business of Entertainment: The Big Picture." From 1986 to 1989, Temin was vice president and director of corporate marketing of Scudder, Stevens and Clark, where she created an international corporate marketing department, headed up investor relations for the firm's closed-end funds, repositioned the corporate identity of the firm and its mutual fund portfolios, and served as spokesperson for the firm. Temin was vice president and director of marketing of Citicorp Investment Bank from 1983 to 1986. From 1976 to 1983, she was director of public affairs of Columbia Business School, where she was the founding editor in chief of Hermes magazine. In 1976, Temin worked on the governor's staff in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An honors graduate of Swarthmore College, she attended Columbia University for her masters degree. In September of 1994, Temin was appointed special advisor to the president of Swarthmore College, to aid the college in handling strategic public affairs issues. She was appointed to the board of managers of the college as of January 1, 1995, and was named chair of Temin and Company.
She was something of the college's long range planning committee on visibility and leadership in higher education in 1997. Swarthmore is currently ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country.
As of July 1, l995, she was elected to the board of advisors of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program of Columbia University. In January of 1997 she was appointed to the board of the National Urban Technology Center. In November of 1998 Ms. Temin was elected Secretary and Board Director of the Soma Foundation, founded to conduct scientific research and educate the public on medical-related issues, mainly research biology on aging and embryonic stem cell development.
In 2001, Temin was appointed to the Goldman Sachs Investment Management Divisions' advisory board on women's financial research. In 2005 she was elected to the board of trustees of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. She is also a trustee of the White House Project and the Kaufman Cultural Center, and is on the board of Women's eNews and Video Volunteers. She has been a marketing columnist, and was on the advisory board of Office.com.
Temin has extensive fundraising experience in areas as diverse as politics, education, the arts and social services. She has served as chairman of the board of numerous not-for-profit organizations and is past chairman of the board of the Mark Taylor Dance Company. She is also the past president of the Public Relations Society: New York and a current member of the Women Presidents Organization, the Economic Club and the Women's Forum. She has served as executive producer of The Night and the Music Productions, a television production company producing shows for PBS.
A frequent and popular public speaker, Ms. Temin has also appeared as a guest on "The CBS Evening News," CNN's "Your Money," CNBC's "The Business District," Fox Evening News, ABC's "Good Morning America," and numerous other local and national television shows around the world.
Ms. Temin is featured in the book Wall Street Women, published by Alfred A. Knopf, as well as several other books, and is listed in Who's Who in America; Who's Who in Finance and Industry; Who's Who of American Women; Who's Who in Advertising; Who's Who in the East; and Who's Who in the World.
KRYSTAL BRENT ZOOK
Kristal Brent Zook, Ph.D., was born in Los Angeles and raised in an all-female household by her mother and grandmother, who are African American. Her father is Anglo American. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work as a journalist and cultural reporter began in the mid-1990s when she wrote regularly about film, TV and books for the Village Voice and the LA Weekly.
In 1999 Zook published her first book, Color By Fox: the Fox Network and the Revolution in Black Television, Oxford University Press, which took readers behind the scenes of popular African American television productions such as "In Living Color," "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "Martin," "New York Undercover," "The Sinbad Show," "Living Single," "Roc" and "South Central." The book revealed the internal dynamics that prevented certain depictions from appearing on air. Color By Fox is required reading in many college-level media and communications courses nationwide.
Her most recent book is I See Black People: Interviews with African American Owners of Radio and Television (Nation Books, February 2007). Through frank discussions with broadcast and cable owners, large and small Zook sheds light into the mystery of why there are so few minority and female media owners.
Zook's previous book is Black Women's Lives: Stories of Power and Pain, which chronicles her many years traveling across America interviewing and building relationships with a diverse array of African American women. In these intimate portraits she reveals the multilayered experiences and thoughts of women such as an organic dairy farmer in Vermont, a filmmaker in California, a catfish worker and union organizer in Mississippi, an HIV/AIDS education activist in Florida; a New York corporate executive and inmates in a Washington prison. At their core, the portraits presented are explorations of the dreams and disappointments of ordinary women living their own quiet revolutions.
In addition to being a Women's eNews board member, Zook is currently a contributing writer with the Women's Media Center and Essence magazine and associate professor of journalism at Hofstra University in Long Island. She has produced and edited for NPR's "The Tavis Smiley Show" and appears as a commentator on NPR's "News and Notes with Ed Gordon." She speaks regularly on college campuses (www.apbspeakers.com) and on national cable and broadcast outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, MTV, Fox and TV-One.
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