Women of Concern Professionals Strategic Consciousness Networking Vol 1 Issue 5 | Seite 2

WOMEN OF CONCERN PROFESSIONALS STRATEGIC CONSCIOUSNESS NETWORKING INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
Jennifer Turpin, PhD., Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs, University of San Francisco. She previously served as Dean of USF's College of Arts and Sciences from 2003-2010, having previously served as Associate Dean for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She joined USF's faculty in 1991 received USF's Distinguished Teaching Award and the College Service Award and founded USF's Women's Studies Program and served as Chair of the Sociology Department. *Dr. Angana P. Chatterji is an anthropologist and feminist historian, born and raised in Calcutta, India. She has worked as an advocate for human rights with communities, organizations, government and citizens groups, and government and donor agencies. *Dana Verde is a New York filmmaker that is a New School University and London Film School, London UK, graduate and to completed her B.A in Media Studies/Screenwriting. She was a two-year Sundance Screenwriters Lab finalist. Graduating with a M.A from the prestigious she wrote and directed a Kodak Student Commercial for Dove’s real women campaign, a D&A promotional music video for Thome Yorke of Radiohead and a 10 min HD short called “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.” A former San Francisco Bay Area resident, Dana currently resides in LA. The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre core mission is to promote the performing arts. LHT presents multicultural playwrights; provide employment and career-building opportunities for actors, directors, designers, and technicians; and fosters youth development and education through workshops and outreach. Denise McCalla Creary, Retired Navy Officer and CEO of Jamaican American Association of Northern California is a committed community member that displays the success of obtaining higher goals. Vanessa Robledo joined Black Coyote in 2008 after accomplishing quite a bit at her family’s winery. As a fourth generation grape grower in Napa and Sonoma she began working in her family vineyard at eight years old with her eight siblings. *Victoria Sánchez De Alba, is president of De Alba Communications. She is a national news Emmy Award-winning former journalist-turned-media relations and PR professional. Her professional background includes television journalism, and investigative reporting with positions held at the Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc., San Francisco; ABC/7 KGO-TV, San Francisco; and CBS KOVR TV-13, Sacramento. *Barbara Mark, Ph.D., is a consulting psychologist, consultant and executive coach. She works with ambitious and highachieving female executives, and women business owners on career trajectory, professional and personal development and work/life integration. She is also sit on Friends of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. *NaNa-Dictta Graves, MFA, is an accomplished professional artist with her work in demand by businesses, universities, schools and art collectors around the globe; she has spent most of her celebrated professional life touring the world with her inspiration lecture; she is an excellent communicator with the ability to project interest and self-esteem, using a common sense approach; and able to translate ideas into realities