Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater:
Filmmaker Partners Shed Light on Worldwide Women's Issues

Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater started out as photographers. In 1985 Attie decided to study film. When Goldwater approached Attie with the story of a young woman whose mother died due to an illegal abortion, a partnership was born.

"Motherless" was released in 1990 and received positive feedback throughout the country. Ever since, the duo has been hard at work.

"Film and video are great for storytelling, advocacy and education," says Attie.

Goldwater adds: "People understand the world increasingly through non-print media. I think it's a great way to tell stories,"

Both women were in college when the feminist movement took off in the 1960s. Goldwater recalls that a visit by author Robin Morgan "completely radicalized" her and many other young women, causing them to take over the college president's office for pay equity, reproductive rights, more women's studies courses and more female faculty.

Attie watched many of her friends struggle with medical complications due to unwanted pregnancies. She became more aware of the reproductive health needs of women in the developing world after working in a hospital in Colombia.

Now, Attie and Goldwater work collaboratively on documentaries that are broadcast both nationally and internationally. In 2005, they were awarded the Pew Fellowship in the Arts for their body of work, which includes films about a Nicaraguan family's ordeal when they want to terminate their 9-year-old daughter's pregnancy; a portrait of the activist Maggie Kuhn; and a story about a woman determined not to return to her native Mali to protect her infant from female genital mutilation.

Attie and Goldwater are especially excited about their upcoming feature, which highlights the poet, playwright and activist Sonia Sanchez, and her contributions to feminism and communities of color.

"We love women's biography, because it is so personally inspiring to us," says Goldwater.

They hope in the future to also emphasize the hardships of millions of women and children who are born in places where they are disenfranchised and given no nationality.

"I keep hoping for the day when the kind of work we do won't be necessary anymore," says Attie.

Goldwater agrees, but says that until that happens, their projects will continue. She notes that she and Attie both have daughters, and Attie now has granddaughters as well.

"For their sake, and for the sake of the young men they're growing up with, we're going to keep making movies for as long as we can," she says.

-- By Angela Dallara

Maria Bello
Star Collaborator for Haiti

Maria Bello says she is the happiest she has ever been. The actor from Norristown, Penn., stars in a new NBC series, "Prime Suspect," playing the tough-as-nails Detective Jane Timoney.

In her other pursuits, she is enormously proud of a groundbreaking bright-yellow clinic she helped found in the worst slum in Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. It opened in January, built, funded and managed by WeAdvance, an organization Bello co-founded with local women's rights activist and popular folk-singer Barbara Guillaume, along with two other international activists.

The clinic sees 200 patients a day and offers a full range of basic medical care, from stitching wounds to attending births. Health education is central to its operations as well and the clinic has offered yoga classes, some with 100 participants, and even a session on the joy of sex (that included emphasis on mutual pleasure and condom use).

There is also an anti-gender violence program, which addresses the reality that most of the women the clinic has seen have been victims of gender-based violence. The clinic offers a six-week course to six men and six women on health, hygiene, democracy and gender-based violence. The graduates of the course are then required to return to their communities and educate others.

At the same time, Bello is also deeply involved in a Haitian Action Circle, through the Women's Donor Network, where she is a member. The group raises funds for female Haitians running for public office and assists Haitian business women to grow their small businesses.

"The first time I stepped foot in Haiti three years ago, I knew it was my destiny," she says. It was the joy of the people that drew her, she adds.

As an undergraduate at Villanova University, two classes Bello took encouraged her pursuit of two distinct professions: acting and activism. The Rev. Ray Jackson taught a course on peace and justice education, during which he screened a documentary on genocide. Bello says she was "moved and angered by the people who did not stand up and say something."

At the same time, an acting class so inspired her that she was ready to abandon her plan to go to law school. She consulted Rev. Jackson, who told her the best way to serve the world is by doing the things she loved most.

As her stature as an actor has grown, so has Bello's commitment to fighting women's poverty and vulnerability to violence--in a collaboration with grassroots organizers.

"It's my mission and calling," she says.

-- By Rita Henley Jensen

Sargeant Lavonnie Bickerstaff
Innovator of Justice

In the early 1990s, Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Lavonnie Bickerstaff found a woman in a store doorway who expressed that she was sick and alone. Bickerstaff recognized her as someone whom she had repeatedly arrested for prostitution charges.

She took the woman to a local hospital and offered to help pay for the necessary medical costs. The young woman told Bickerstaff that if she could get well, she would return home to the southern part of the country and Bickerstaff would never see her again.

The young woman kept her word.

This incident inspired Bickerstaff, a 22-year veteran of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, to search for innovative ways to assist sex workers in obtaining the necessary resources to leave their life of prostitution. Her commitment led to her involvement in multiple community-based initiatives. During Bickerstaff's tenure as community liaison, she worked with the Bluff community initiating programs to reduce street prostitution; the John School, which addresses the demand side of prostitution; and PRIDE (Program for the Reintegration Development and Empowerment of Exploited Individuals), which provides arrested prostitutes an opportunity for treatment, rather than a jail sentence.

Bickerstaff based Pittsburgh's John School on a similar program in San Francisco. The school educates those arrested for the solicitation of prostitutes on the legal, social and health ramifications associated with their crime. Since its inception, over 500 clients of prostitutes have attended the program, with only three re-arrests for prostitution, amounting to less than a 1 percent recidivist rate.

On the flip side, Bickerstaff was instrumental in developing PRIDE, which aims to help sex workers find ways to change their lifestyle, restore their self-esteem and build a life free of exploitation. The participants in PRIDE are mandated to the program from Allegheny County's Prostitution Court. The participants must attend a monthly review in the prostitution courtroom to monitor their progress and compliance to PRIDE program guidelines.

Bickerstaff, a native of Cleveland, received a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences from Hiram College along with numerous meritorious honors from the Bureau of Police. She presently oversees the Police Bureau's Robbery Squad. Bickerstaff is also a certified municipal police officer training instructor and has taught new recruits as well as veteran officers as an in-service instructor.

She recognizes the benefits of diversity and continues to encourage African Americans, as well as all young men and women, to consider the profession of law enforcement as a career goal. She says she finds police work so rewarding because it affords her the opportunity to utilize her training, experience and resources to protect, uplift and empower those who have been victimized by circumstance at the hand of others.

To her, police work is not a job, it's a calling, she says.

-- By Victoria Fitzgerald

Pamela G. Bryer
Orchestrator for Health of New Moms, Infants

Pamela Bryer creates strategies that work to improve the lives of pregnant women and the health of their newborns. Moving to the affluent Chester County 25 years ago transformed someone accustomed to working in teaching hospitals to a robust advocate for improving the lives of vulnerable women and children.

She is now the executive director of the county's Maternal and Child Health Consortium, an organization that has developed both a dedicated staff and a number of successful programs with quantifiable effects on improving the health of women and children.

"It's a way for me to combine my interest in public health and women's health in the community that I live in and I have a vested interest in raising my own children in," she says, a mother of two.

Living in a wealthy community, she learned that black and Hispanic children were far more likely to be born smaller and prematurely and that these mothers had an increased chance of suffering from pre- and postnatal depression.

"I was troubled by the inequity of the disparities in health outcomes and it made me want to make a difference in the community where I live," Bryer says.

Through private and public funding partnerships, Bryer has orchestrated a number of community-based interventions. For example, the Healthy Start program, which provides prenatal and postpartum home visits by community health workers; health insurance enrollment for uninsured women, children and families; education on prenatal care, labor and delivery; and infant safety and development. The services are provided in English and Spanish.

Under Bryer's leadership, 96.5 percent of infants born in 2010 to Healthy Start mothers were born at a healthy birth weight at 5.5 pounds and over--a strong indicator of the mother and the infant's well-being. These babies' birth weights were higher than those of babies in the community not enrolled in program, she says, closing the gap in birth outcomes.

Bryer earned her undergraduate degree from University of Texas at Austin and her master's degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She went on to hold leadership positions at two of Boston's teaching hospitals, the Beth Israel Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

She also holds a Nonprofit Leadership Institute certificate from Bryn Mawr College and a certificate in Leading Organizational Change from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Bryer also has credentials as a Certified Fundraising Executive.

She is now in the process of dramatically broadening her and the consortium's goals.

"Our organization is going to expand our efforts in the future to get more and more women, children and families who are uninsured enrolled in health coverage," Bryer says.

She is also going global. Bryer has begun working with the Gambia Women's Initiative, an organization that helps Gambian women become effective economic contributors within their communities.

-- By Krystie Yandoli and Victoria Fitzgerald

Peter Buttenwieser
Bundler for Boosting Women in Politics

Peter Buttenwieser is a proud supporter of female political candidates, but he doesn't feel the need to call himself a feminist. Rather, he explains that this priority is founded in sensibility more than anything else.

"Politics is very practical and I've tried to do what I think is right in practical terms, as well as regarding civil rights, because women have always lagged behind men in the political process," he says.

His commitment to ensuring viable candidates in politics comes from his experience working in inter-city schools around the nation. He was the principal of two public schools in Philadelphia, including an early childhood school that established the first ever infant day care center in a public school.

"It soon became apparent to me that things like Title I, Title IX and other federal legislation had a lot to do with the potential to improve schools. And that's why I wanted to get involved in the legislative process by getting good U.S. senators," he says.

Buttenwieser has held close to 100 fundraisers, campaign events and luncheons for U.S. Senate candidates over the past 15 years. He has held multiple events for Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and calls them "phenomenal." He has consistently supported Senators Patty Murray, Debbie Stabenow and Dianne Feinstein.

"In a sense," he says, "I've supported almost all the women who are in the Senate and I've given to several challengers who didn't make it."

He supports progressive male candidates as well, and names reproductive choice and poverty as two of the issues most important to him.

Buttenwieser plans to continue his work to increase the number of women in the Senate. He will hold a fundraiser on Nov. 21 to honor Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.

"I think Tammy Baldwin is a vitally important candidate because if she wins this seat, she will be the first openly lesbian U.S. senator in American history, and I think that is a really important campaign for people to support and get behind. It's why I invited her as soon as I knew that she was going to run," he says.

Buttenwieser would also like to see women achieve equality in areas other than the political arena.

"I think the most important thing that could happen would be to achieve economic equality for women. Women--especially women of color--are way behind in terms of receiving fair income for the same work that is done by men," he says.

With these goals in mind, he is enthusiastic about the future: "We've cracked a lot of ceilings."

-- By Angela Dallara

Donna Cooper
Fighter for Women to Gain Power, Prosperity

Donna Cooper is regularly referred to as one of the most powerful women in

Pennsylvania. Her long and varied career has been characterized by a continuous commitment to direct service and political organizing on behalf of women.

Cooper's first official foray into women's issues came in 1982, when she launched an international petition drive among women to stop the arms race. The petition gathered millions of signatures from women worldwide.

Her peace activism continued throughout the 1980s, culminating in efforts to purchase--with five other women--32 acres of land adjacent to the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. The land was a major storage site for nuclear weapons and a possible site for the storage of more powerful nuclear weapons still to be designed.

Through the Seneca Women's Peace Encampments she helped mobilize thousands of U.S. women to express opposition to nuclear weapons. The Seneca Encampment women also helped lead the way to the eventual removal of all nuclear weapons from the depot and helped stop special international controls on the deployment of new warheads in Europe.

After completing a master's degree in government administration in 1985 from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Center of Government, Cooper became the top aide to Karen Miller, the first female mayor of Reading, Penn. Next she took the helm of a newly-created policy position in the Philadelphia controller's office. She proposed new initiatives, including increasing the marriage license fee used to fund child care services so more women could afford to go to work. That policy was not adopted, but Cooper's stock rose and she was appointed as the deputy director of the city's lead agency charged with addressing poverty.

Cooper's anti-poverty work includes many firsts. She designed and oversaw the first effort to put computers in low-income women's homes to help build their literacy skills. Her work to address the histories of abuse among women who struggle with addiction and mental illness changed the face of behavioral health services in the city. Now, because of her work, publicly funded programs regularly integrate trauma and abuse counseling into their treatment plans.

Cooper shifted her focus to public education after observing the lifetime handicap that poor education imposes on women. She helped found and was the director of Good Schools Pennsylvania, where she campaigned to make public education the top issue in the 2002 governor race. She succeeded in building a strong electoral turnout for the candidates who agreed to increase funding and support for public schools.

Afterwards, Cooper joined the newly-elected Gov. Ed Rendell as his secretary of policy. While her portfolio included education, health care, energy, infrastructure, the environment and economic development, she continued to focus on providing public funds to meet the needs of women.

Now Cooper is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, working on federal policy to help low-income families enter the middle class. Since nine out of every 10 families living in poverty are headed by single women, Cooper is applying her firsthand experience to challenge the policy debates in Washington.

-- By Ellen Toobin

Cynthia Figueroa
Weaver of Safety Nets for Latinas

A poster in Cynthia Figueroa's office reads "Sin mujeres, no hay democracia," which means "Without women, there's no democracy." A gift from her friend and mentor Alba Martinez, who led the agency Congreso de Latinos Unidos when Figueroa was hired there in 1998, the poster reflects her deep commitment to civic life and women's issues specifically.

Now the president and CEO of the organization, since earlier this year, Figueroa presides over the city's largest nonprofit agency providing expert services to the Latino community. In that capacity, her agency runs the city's only fully bilingual domestic violence program and also provides family planning, teen pregnancy prevention and HIV/AIDS support services. Soon Congreso will offer a full spectrum of primary care health services for all ages through its Federally Qualified Health Center.

Domestic violence hit home for Figueroa when she was in college and a friend of her mother's was killed by her husband. This connection to gender violence and seeing the parallels between education and poverty lit a fire in Figueroa.

"These are all lenses which affected my resolve to be a feminist and reflect the needs of women," she says. "I was incredibly fortunate that I had a strong and loving home and was raised in a loving environment."

This subsequently shaped her advocacy for victims of domestic abuse and other women's issues throughout her career. First hired at Congreso to supervise the Latina Domestic Violence Program, she spent five years overseeing various aspects of its services, including women's wellness programs.

"It's an extraordinary organization with a lot of innovation and energy, and at the time I started working there, there was a tremendous amount of growth," she says.

Figueroa then became the executive director of Women Against Abuse, the state's largest domestic abuse agency, and also served as the deputy commissioner for the city's Department of Human Services before returning to Congreso.

Being a voice on behalf of women--and now in particular Latinas--is something she is honored to do, says Figueroa. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami, she takes the role very seriously, she adds, as women continue to face social, economic and political barriers.

Figueroa points out that women are still paid today only 70 to 75 cents for every dollar a man makes, and that this disparity is even larger for Latinas. Yet she takes comfort in the fact that women are slowly being represented in higher numbers in the political arena.

"On a personal level, I'm new in my position and very happy to be here, but I do expect myself to be a formidable leader that brings our work to a national platform," she says.

-- By Angela Dallara

Roberta L. Hacker
Creator of Safe Spaces

With more than 40 years of activism under her belt, Roberta L. Hacker is a veteran in the campaign to end violence against women.

Since 1988 she has served as executive director of Women in Transition, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit for women who are experiencing domestic violence or substance abuse.

In 2002, Hacker sought and got funding for Philadelphia's first domestic violence summit, which united representatives from varying agencies to ensure that battered women and their children received the best services available. Hacker also established an informal hotline collaborative that evolved into the 24-hour bilingual Philadelphia Domestic Violence Hotline Collaboration.

Her interest in the issue was sparked while attending Temple University in the 1960s. At the time, she served as a community liaison for a local mental health agency. There she visited a formerly institutionalized woman living in a boarding house. The woman revealed that the house manager was physically abusive towards her and had taken money from men for the opportunity to sexually abuse her.

Hacker closed down the boarding home and then asked herself: "Did this happen to all of these women?" That question changed her life's path to one dedicated to ending violence against women.

"Wherever you are, you have the right to be safe" Hacker says, adding that Women In Transition "will find a way to help you be safe, by simply trusting other people and knowing that you are not alone."

Hacker has won numerous awards for her work, including the Human Rights Award for Activism on Behalf of Women and Children from the City of Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations and, most recently, the 2008 Appreciation and Sisterhood Award from a Woman's Place in Bucks County.

-- By Victoria Fitzgerald

Pat Halpin-Murphy
Resister to Breast Cancer's Power

Breast-cancer survivor Pat Halpin-Murphy not only lived to fight another day, she lived to lead the fight to improve the lives of thousands of breast-cancer patients.

"Pennsylvania has the fourth highest rate of breast cancer in the nation," says Halpin-Murphy, president and founder of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition. "We say enough is enough. It's time to end this devastating disease so our daughters won't have to."

Halpin-Murphy's decision to lead came in 1988, when she was diagnosed and successfully treated for stage 3 breast cancer.

"After miraculously surviving this disease, after so many others had lost their lives, I knew I was here for a reason, to help give other patients and survivors a voice and the strength to stand up and say 'I survived this disease,'" she says.

The Coalition extends public awareness of issues related to breast cancer and encourages increased public, as well as private, funding for research, legislative advocacy and high-quality screening, diagnosis and treatment.

They are hard at work now on a campaign that began in early October to push for legislation that provides additional assistance to patients that have received inconclusive mammogram results due to dense breast tissue. The proposed law will require health insurance to cover supplementary assessment to assure a precise appraisal.

Growing up in Philadelphia, Halpin-Murphy obtained a graduate degree in economics from Drexel University and a second graduate degree, this one in political science, from the University of Pennsylvania. Halpin-Murphy describes the women's movement not as a light bulb going off but as an "explosion in her head," one that hit her "hard and strong." She regards the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition as an extension of that explosion.

Before the Coalition's existence, women in the state diagnosed with breast cancer faced innumerable problems, ranging from a lack of support during and after treatment to mammograms and reconstructive surgery not being covered by insurance. Previously, women also were given "drive-by mastectomies," meaning many hospitals did not permit patients who had their breasts removed to stay overnight.

Halpin-Murphy's work has been recognized with the Women Change America award from the Pennsylvania Commission for Women and the Distinguished Service to State Government, presented by the National Governors' Association in 2005. She also serves as a gubernatorial appointee to the Pennsylvania Cancer Advisory Board.

-- By Victoria Fitzgerald

Tine Hansen-Turton
Healer of Health Care Systems

Revolutionizing health care delivery in the United States by expanding the role and respect for nurses and nurse practitioners is the single-minded pursuit of Tine Hansen-Turton.

Hansen-Turton is a triple-threat to the status quo of health care. She is the chief executive officer for the National Nursing Centers Consortium, the executive director of the Convenient Care Association and chief strategy officer of the Public Health Management Corporation. Along the way, she also picked up degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government and the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Hansen-Turton was first exposed to the great work of nurses early in her career. While working as special assistant for the executive director of public housing in Philadelphia, she realized the large number of women living in Philadelphia's housing developments who were experiencing a high rate of low-birth-weight infants needed support. In response, she worked, in partnership with local nonprofits and universities as well as the Philadelphia-based Independence Foundation, to create nurse-managed health centers that provided comprehensive prenatal care for the women living in the housing developments. The results?

"The kids were born healthy," says Hansen-Turton. "Primary health care led by nurses made the difference."

The program also resulted in the birth of a full-time health care advocate, as Hansen-Turton discovered the need for more nurses and nurse-based care within our health care system. Under her leadership, the National Nursing Centers Consortium, a professional association of community-based, nurse practitioner-managed health centers, has increased from 11 regional health centers to over 250 nationally. Most of the centers are in underserved communities, helping more than 2.5 million vulnerable people across the U.S.

Hansen-Turton was born in Copenhagen and grew up with her mother in a single-parent family. When she came to the U.S., she soon realized that "women in the U.S have the freedom to come up with an idea and do something about it."

Among her myriad achievements, Hansen-Turton has ensured that advanced practice registered nurses are defined as primary caregivers with prescribing powers in state laws; negotiated changes in managed care reimbursement policies nationally for nurse practitioners; secured more than $300 million in direct support for nurse-led community-based health centers; and successfully advocated for the inclusion of nurse-managed clinics in federal law.

In 2005 she received the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship, which enabled her to travel to New Zealand to assist in the development of nursing-based models of primary care. In 2010, Hansen-Turton received the Independent Sector American Express NextGen Fellowship. This year she became an honorary fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, one of the few non-nurses to be recognized.

But her job is far from done, says Hansen-Turton, and she will continue to raise awareness of the "unsung heroes," those on the frontlines of care-giving.

-- By Victoria Fitzgerald

Linda C. Taliaferro, Esq.
Dismantler of Exclusion Strategies

Linda Taliaferro made her professor leap from his chair in jubilation at the title of her corporate law thesis: "Why Women on Boards?"

She answered that question in her own life by going on to claim a seat on the board of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., where she served for nine years as an outside director.

Now a senior auditor in the TDBank N.A., and a certified anti-money laundering specialist, she has held a long list of powerful positions in the energy, finance and regulatory fields. Along the way she has earned a reputation as someone who brings other women along.

Taliaferro's wealth of experience has taught her that if you have information that can help others "you should not just sit on it." She helps women and girls by hiring them, encouraging them, advising them on how to progress and in sharing her knowledge when someone asks her.

"When you see talent, reach back," she says. "Helping people should be about being inclusive. Being exclusive regarding issues you know about creates barriers in communication, which starts conflict. The older you get, the less exclusive you are and this breaks down barriers in communication."

Born in Springfield, Mass., Taliaferro studied political science at Skidmore College, a women's school until 1971. She obtained her law degree from Boston University and recalls being struck by the differences in atmospheres between her college and her male- dominated law school. Taliaferro also earned a degree in religion at Philadelphia's Lutheran Theological Seminary.

Taliaferro grew up in 1950s and 1960s America, where she witnessed not only segregation and the movement against it, but also the wave of feminism that was sweeping the country at the time. Her role models were Patricia Roberts Harris, the first African American woman to serve as a U.S. ambassador, and Constance Baker Motley, the first African American woman elected to the New York State Senate and the first African American female judge appointed to a federal court.

"These people and others I've identified with told me what I could do with effort and vision," she says.

Taliaferro became the chair the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, where she acted as the agency spokesperson for all public policy, law and regulatory issues to the financial community, as well as represented the agency in front of all state and federal agencies. She was also the first black female partner at the large law firm Reed Smith Shaw and McClay.

When asked about her next steps Taliaferro says: "How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans."

-- By Victoria Fitzgerald

Homa Sabet Tavangar
Developer of Global Citizens

Since the beginning of her career, author Homa Sabet Tavangar has been passionate about women's equality. She has worked on women's development for the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development and, more recently, completed an eight-year term on the board of the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls.

Tavangar is the author of "Growing up Global: Raising Children to Be at Home in the World," which offers a "toolkit" for all parents to raise children with a global mindset. In the book, Tavangar emphasizes that the commitment to education and opportunities for women and girls is vital for raising any global citizen. "Growing up Global" includes an in-depth discussion of the significance of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, with an emphasis on gender equality and improving maternal health.

The book has been hailed by national education and business leaders and media ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall to the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, PBS, Parents Magazine and FOXNews.com. Tavangar is a contributor to ABC television's Million Moms Campaign and Sprout TV's parenting content, among others.

Born in Iran, Tavangar has been inspired by the Iranian, Baha'i female poet-scholar, Tahirih (TAH-heh-ray). In the summer of 1848, around the same time as the Seneca Falls Convention in the United States, as a symbolic pronouncement that a new day was dawning for the status of women, Tahirih became the first woman in recorded Middle Eastern history to publicly remove her veil before an assemblage of men. At the age of 32, she was executed for her beliefs and activities. Her last recorded words were, "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you will never stop the emancipation of women." Despite this tragedy, Tahirih's legacy is that of empowerment and hope, reaching across generations and cultures.

Tavangar has lived in East and West Africa, South America and throughout the U.S. She holds degrees from UCLA and Princeton University, speaks four languages and her religious heritage includes four of the world's major faiths. She is married and the mother of three girls, ranging in age from 8 to 18.

-- By Ellen Toobin

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