Dr. Holly Atkinson

JUNE CROSS
is an award-winning producer with thirty years of television news and documentary experience. She was most recently an executive producer for This Far by Faith, a six-part PBS series on the African-American religious experience. She worked for PBS's Frontline, CBS News, and PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her reporting for the NewsHour on the US invasion of Grenada won the 1983 Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story. Secret Daughter, an autobiographical film that examined how race and color had affected her family, won an Emmy in 1997 and was honored that same year with a duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. She is also the author of a memoir, Secret Daughter published by Viking in 2006.

Her latest documentary, The Old Man and the Storm, which follows the travails of an extended New Orleans family for three years post-Katrina, will air on PBS' Frontline in early 2009. Her other credits include: Ashes of the Cold War; Showdown in Haiti; The Confessions of RosaLee; and A Kid Kills. Cross was senior producer for the FRONTLINE productions Living on the Edge with correspondent Bill Moyers, Mandela, and School Colors, which won a duPont-Columbia Journalism Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism in 1995. Cross received her B.A. from Harvard, and was a fellow at Carnegie-Mellon University's School of Urban and Public Affairs and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies at Harvard.
 

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.

Cherie Hannouche

Cherie is a digital media professional who currently works at Google on their education campaigns. Realizing that women are rarely sought out to give expert opinions in mainstream media, she decided to create the website The Daily Femme which features news about women and interviews of professional women at different stages of their career paths and from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The women interviewed as well as the staff of nine bloggers on this site are all committed to gender equality in the US and around the world. Cherie graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Art History and is also a trained musician and performer. Born in Algeria and raised in the US, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

Kate Kelly

Kate Kelly, is author of more than 30 books, including Election Day: An American Holiday, an American History. On her website, America Comes Alive!, she chronicles stories of America's past that are relevant to life today. Kate has been quoted in publications such as Time and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on World News Tonight, Good Morning America,  and The View.

Rita Rodin Johnston
Rita Rodin Johnston is a partner in Skadden's Intellectual Property and Technology; Information Technology and E-Commerce; Media and Entertainment; and Outsourcing practices. She focuses her practice on domestic and international transactions involving the Internet, content, emerging media and complex technologies on behalf of clients that are start-up entrepreneurs, investors and multinational corporations. She regularly structures and negotiates technology and intellectual property transactions — including strategic alliances, joint ventures and other partnership arrangements; trademark, copyright and technology licensing agreements; development and distribution agreements; information technology and business processing outsourcing agreements; and marketing and co-branding agreements. Her practice includes strategic intellectual property asset purchases and sales; technology mergers and acquisitions; initial public offerings, restructurings, and project finance matters. She also advises companies on social media issues, business and compliance issues, open source issues, privacy matters and branding issues. Ms.Rodin Johnston repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and The Best Lawyers in America. She is a frequent lecturer and author on a variety of e-commerce, media, trademark and technology-related topics.

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 Credit 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.