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Journalists/Writers

Catherine Anaya (USC) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles (see Spring and Summer 2001 Quarterlies).

Barbara Blakemore (DePauw) Former fiction editor of Redbook; Former executive editor of McCall's. Past president of Women's Media Group.

Jodi Brooks (Wisconsin) Reporter and co-anchor for WPMI-TV in Mobile, Ala. Founder of A Secret Safe Place for Newborns, a national program that assures the safety of unwanted babies (see Spring 2001 Quarterly).

Christy Bulkeley (Missouri) Daily newspaper reporter, editor and publisher for Gannett Co., Inc. for two decades. Program and grants administrator for the Gannett Foundation (now the Freedom Forum) for seven years. One of the first women publishers for Gannett Co. As a newspaper executive, she was the first woman Gannett named chief executive of a daily newspaper (1974). National president of Women in Communications, Inc. (1975-76).

Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter (Texas) Writer, feminist. Former reporter and public relations expert. Press secretary and staff director to Lady Bird Johnson (1963-69) and author of Start with a Laugh, Ruffles & Flourishes, Getting Better All the Time and Unplanned Parenthood: Confessions of a Seventy Something Surrogate Mother. A founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and of ERAmerica.

Lisa Colagrossi (West Virginia) Emmy®-winning television anchor, currently with WKMG in Orlando, Fla.

Michelle Fulcher (Colorado) National editor of The Denver Post. Part of the Post news team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for their coverage of the Columbine High School massacre of 1999 (see Fall 2000 Quarterly).

Jennifer Gilbert (Northwestern) Emmy Award®-winning television news anchor for WBFF-TV in Baltimore (since 1993).

Donna Lipper Lucas (USC) Chief executive officer/president of NCG Porter Novelli. Widely recognized expert in media relations and political/public affairs strategy. Press secretary to former Gov. George Deukmejian (California) and California press secretary for President George Bush’s successful 1988 campaign. California media director for the 1992, 1996 Republican National Conventions.

Ann Martin (Washington) Prime time news anchor and co-host of Woman 2 Woman, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles. Winner of three Emmy Awards®, two Golden Mike Awards and an award for best 30-minute news cast. Early in her career, first female to anchor the weekend news solo in Seattle, Wash. (see Spring 2001 Quarterly).

Nan Robertson (Northwestern) Pulitzer Prize-winning (1983) reporter and feature writer for the New York Times (1955-96). Author of Getting Better, Inside Alcoholics Anonymous (1988) and The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times (1992).

Barbara Brooks Wallace (UCLA) Award-winning author of children's books, including NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia (2001) and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor (1983). Other books include Secret in St. Something, Ghosts in the Gallery, Sparrows in the Scullery and The Twin in the Tavern.

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