Making News: alumnae in the media
Mona K. Sutphen ’89 has been appointed to the White House transition team as deputy chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama. A graduate of the London School of Economics and co-author of The Next American Century (Simon & Schuster 2008), Sutphen is a former U.S. Foreign Service officer. Her appointment was announced in international media including the Chicago Tribune. More…
Jane Famiano Garvey (MAT ’69), who served as FAA administrator from 1997 to 2002, will accept a position on the transition team for President-elect Barack Obama. Garvey will take charge of reviewing transportation agencies' decisions and policies for the Obama transition team, according to the Montreal Gazette. She is also widely considered to be a top candidate for secretary of transportation in the new administration. More…
Sarah K. McMenamin ’04, Ph.D. candidate in the biosciences at Stanford University, was recently featured in a San Francisco-based ABC television news story, “Amphibians Disappearing from Yellowstone Park,” about her current research. More…
Kavita N. Ramdas ’85, president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, was recently profiled in Forbes.com magazine, which highlighted her achievements as head of the world’s largest grant-making foundation focused exclusively on women’s rights. More…
Bank of America's Barbara J. Desoer ’74 ranks third on the Wall Street Journal’s list of “50 Women to Watch,” released November 10. Desoer, a longtime bank veteran, was named this spring to lead the combined mortgage unit of Bank of America and its new purchase, Countrywide Financial Corp. More...
Artist Laurie Fendrich ’70 writes about the presidential election in the "Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind" column in the November 3 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Fendrich, a painter who lives and works in New York, is a professor of fine arts and the director of the Comparative Arts and Culture Graduate Program at Hofstra University. More…
