MACKY ALSTON'S most recent film is Questioning Faith, a feature documentary that aired on HBO/ Cinemax in June 2002 to critical acclaim. His debut documentary, Family Name, premiered in 1997 at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Freedom of Expression Award. Family Name aired nationally on PBS, was nominated for an Emmy Award and was featured on Oprah and Siskel & Ebert. Alston is currently producing The Dwelling Place, about a women's homeless shelter in New York.
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BONNIE ANDERSON is Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, teaching courses in women's history and the history of feminism. With Judith P. Zissner she co-authored "A History of their Own: Women in Europe from Pre-History to the Present." Her newest book is "Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement 1830-1860." She has also worked as a rape crisis counselor at St Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village for over a decade and marches for women's issues, public education and assorted radical causes.
www.bonnieanderson.com

PAULA KAMEN is the author of "Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution," the first large-scale journalistic report on postboomer women's sexual attitudes. She is also the author of what is noted as the first "Third Wave" feminist book, "Feminist Fatale: Voices from the 'Twentysomething' Generation Explore the Future of the Women's Movement," as well as the play, Jane: Abortion and the Underground. A Chicago-based journalist, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and about a dozen anthologies. Since 1994, she has been visiting research scholar with the Northwestern University Gender Studies program.
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ANNE KINGSTON is an award-winning journalist and columnist for the national Canadian daily, National Post, where she writes about social and contemporary issues. She is also the bestselling author of "The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President's Choice and the Making of Popular Taste," which won the 1995 National Business Book Award. A winner of and nominee for numerous National Magazine Awards, Kingston has contributed to The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, Toronto Life, and the Chicago Sun-Times magazine. Her book, "The Meaning of Wife," an exploration into the influence of the role of wife on female identity, will be published in March.
Anne Kingston's column in the National Post

JENNIFER POZNER is the founder of Women In Media & News (WIMN), a new media monitoring group that seeks to promote positive, accurate portrayals of women's and human rights issues in journalism and popular culture. Prior to founding WIMN, Pozner directed the Women's Desk at the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) during which time she debunked media inaccuracy and helped activists respond to sexist, racist and homophobic news coverage. Pozner contributes a regular Media Watch columnist for Sojourner: The Women's Forum and has been published in Ms., Newsday, Chicago Tribune, salon.com and Bitch among others. Pozner has appeared as a commentator on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," Oxygen TV's "Pure Oxygen," and Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now!"

MARIE WILSON has been an advocate of women's issues for more than 30 years. She became president of the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1984, raising millions of dollars for programs and organizations serving women and girls including the Ms. Foundation's $16 million endowment fund. She co-founded The White House Project in 1998, which is dedicated to advancing women's leadership by enhancing public perceptions of women's capacity to lead. Wilson also co-created the hugely successful Take Our Daughters To Work Day and served as an official government delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China in 1995.
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