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Wolf Chat with Jill Tietjen - Co-Author of "Her Story: A Timeline of Women Who Changed America" - 1pm EST/12pm CST
August 4, 2010 - 1:00 pm — 1:30 pm | ( U.S. Eastern )
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Join us for a fun and informative discussion about the amazing women who worked to provide us with the rights and privileges that we, as women, enjoy today. Ms. Tietjen is the President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc. She has spent over 30 years in the electric utility industry, and provides planning consulting services to electric utilities and organizations serving the electric utility industry. Ms. Tietjen serves as an expert witness before public utility commissions and other government agencies. Ms. Tietjen regularly speaks on women in engineering, historical women in engineering and science, and leadership topics. Her book Her Story: A Timeline of Women Who Changed America (HarperCollins, 2008) is a local bestseller and is featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV. Her introduction to engineering textbook, Keys to Engineering Success, was published by Prentice Hall in 2001. She is the co-author with Betty Reynolds of the Setting the Record Straight series of which three volumes have been published. She has written articles for and been profiled in SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers, Graduating Engineer, U.S. Woman Engineer, Woman Engineer, and Engineering Horizons. She served as the 1991-1992 National President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). As Jill S. Baylor, she is a contributing author to the 1995 book She Does Math! Ms. Tietjen has received numerous awards and honors.

Wolf Chat with Lauren Parsekian - Director/Writer/Producer of Finding Kind and Founder & President of Kind Campaign
August 24, 2010 - 1:00 pm — 1:30 pm | ( U.S. Eastern )
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Lauren Parsekian is a 23 year old Southern Californian and is the President and Co-Founder of Kind Campaign. Finding a way to stop girl-against-girl “crime” from happening is something that has been on her heart for as long as she can remember. Becoming a filmmaker, an author, a public speaker, a teacher...these are all careers she thought about with one main goal: to create an outlet and awareness about the emotional, verbal and physical abuse within female relationships. Her passion for this issue stems from her own personal experience in middle school. Throughout seventh and eighth grade she was tortured by her girl “friends”. She knows first hand how much it hurts to be called names, to be threatened and to feel like you are all alone in Girl World. Ever since her experience in middle school, she has known that she wanted to do something to help with this very important issue. Graduating with a degree in Film Production from Pepperdine University opened her eyes to the world of documentary film and the enormous good documentaries can do. After formulating the idea of making the documentary and creating a movement, she immediately decided she would not stop until a “kinder” world was created among females. Lauren is an ordinary girl who saw a problem with the world and decided she would not stop until change was made.

Wolf Chat with Sharon Meers, Author of "Getting to 50/50" a Book About Sharing Power as Parents and Professionals
September 15, 2010 - 1:00 pm — 1:30 pm | ( U.S. Eastern )
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Sharon Meers is the co-author of Getting to 50/50, a book about how men and women find common ground and share power so that men can be full parents and women can have full careers. Launched on the Today show in 2009, Getting to 50/50 has been featured in The New York Times, Time magazine, Forbes, BusinessWeek and USA Today and lauded by leading academics and business executives for what the Huffington Post called it’s “Obama-like” approach with solutions to cut work/life stress, retain female talent and improve productivity. Of the thousands of employees and students who’ve attended Getting to 50/50 talks, half have been male. Prior to writing Getting to 50/50, Sharon was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. In her 16-year career at Goldman, Sharon ran several businesses and worked on diversity efforts in two of the firm’s divisions. Sharon lives in the Bay Area with her husband Steve, a real-estate developer, and their 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter. With her husband, Sharon founded the Partnership for Parity at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School which supports Stanford's work on workplace parity and a similar effort at Harvard University called the Dual-Career Initiative. Sharon also serves on the board of the National Women's Law Center and on the advisory council of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Research on Gender and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Sharon holds a B.A. in History from Harvard College and an M.A. in Economics from New York University.