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Marie C. Wilson
is President of Ms. Foundation for Women and The White House Project, which she launched in 1998 to advance women's leadership. She has created groundbreaking national programs such as Take Our Daughters to Work Day and devoted millions of dollars to grassroots organizations working to move women toward economic self-sufficiency, safeguard reproductive rights, and support health and safety for women and girls. Her latest book is Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must help Run the World. She was a U.S. Government Delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.
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Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer
is President of the Independent Women’s Forum. Prior to her appointment at IWF, she directed the Washington Office of Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States. Ms. Pfotenhauer began her career as a senior economist at the Republican National Committee and was soon promoted to chief economist. After serving on then President-elect Bush’s transition team, Ms. Pfotenhauer worked on Capitol Hill as economic counsel to Senator William Armstrong until her appointment as chief economist of the President's Council on Competitiveness. In 1994, she appeared on the cover of the National Journal , which called her one of the rising stars in D.C.
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