Conference Agenda
October 24th, 2009
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520
10:00-11:00am Registration
11:00-11:45am Introduction by WLI president, Keynote by Joanne Lipman
12:00-1:00pm Session I
1:15-2:15pm Lunch - Law School Dining Hall, speech by Dean Miller
2:30-3:30pm Session II
3:30-4:00pm Mini Career Fair with recruiters from our sponsors
4:00-5:00pm Session III
5:00-6:00pm "Changing Modes of Leadership: Female Graduate Since '69"
About
Sponsored by the Women's Leadership Initiative at Yale, the second "Women in Leadership" Conference will bring together students and alumnae for a conversation about growing leadership potential amongst women at Yale and beyond. The conference, which will take place at Yale Law School on Saturday, October 24th, will feature workshops and panels providing pre-professional exposure, skill development, and discussion of women's issues. This event is open to all students on-campus. Applications are reviewed and accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis and earlier applicants receive workshop priority. WLI members receive top priority.
The conference promises to be particularly exciting for anyone wanting to meet accomplished alumnae and other student leaders. The keynote speaker will be Joanne Lipman ‘83, founding editor of Condé Nast Portfolio and creator of the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Journal and Personal Journal. Ms. Lipman will speak about her experiences in media and lessons from the recent economic crisis. There will also be over 40 alumnae and professionals in a variety of fields present to answer questions about life after college, work-life balance, career choices, education, and more.
We are no longer accepting applications. Thank you for your interest.
Keynote Speakers
Joanne Lipman
Joanne Lipman is one of the nation’s most prominent financial journalists. She was Editor-in-Chief of Condé Nast Portfolio, the business magazine and Web site she founded, from 2006 to 2009. Condé Nast Portfolio was the recipient of numerous honors, including National Magazine and Loeb Awards.
Previously, Ms. Lipman was a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, the first woman to attain that post. While at the Journal, Ms. Lipman oversaw projects that won three Pulitzer Prizes.
Ms. Lipman first joined the Journal in 1983 as a reporter in New York, initiated and wrote the paper’s Advertising column starting in 1989, and became a Page One editor in 1993. In 1998, Ms. Lipman created Weekend Journal, a Friday section that focuses on the personal interests of business readers, and served as its Editor-in-Chief until 2000.
From 2000-2005, Ms. Lipman was a Deputy Managing Editor, helping to direct the paper’s news coverage. In that post she also created a new fourth section, Personal Journal. Under Ms. Lipman’s leadership, the Journal received two Pulitzer Prizes in 2005 for Weekend Journal and Personal Journal coverage, as well as a 1995 Pulitzer for a Page One series she edited.
Ms. Lipman is a frequent television commentator on business issues, appearing on CNBC, CBS, CNN, PBS and elsewhere. She received the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications in 2001, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Yale University Council.
Ms. Lipman, a 1983 Yale College graduate, and her husband Tom Distler, a 1983 Yale Law School graduate, are the parents of Andrew and Rebecca, Yale ‘12.
Mary Miller
Mary Miller, Sterling Professor of History of Art, became dean of Yale College on December 1, 2008. A prominent art historian, Miller has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1981. She was the Vincent J. Scully Professor of History of Art from 1998 until her appointment to the Sterling Professorship ten years later. Prior to assuming the deanship, Miller served as master of Saybrook College for nearly a decade. Her husband, Edward Kamens, is the Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies and served as acting master of Saybrook from December 2008 through the end of the 2008-2009 academic year.
Miller earned her A.B. from Princeton in 1975 and her Ph.D. from Yale in 1981. She has served as chair of the Department of History of Art, chair of the Council on Latin American Studies, director of Graduate Studies in Archeological Studies, and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Women Faculty Forum at Yale.
Specializing in the art of the ancient New World, in 2004 Miller curated The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. For that exhibition, she wrote the catalogue of the same title with Simon Martin, senior epigrapher at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She is also completing the work of her archaeological project to document and reconstruct the Maya wall paintings at Bonampak, Mexico.
For her work on the Maya, Miller has won national recognition including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. She has been chosen to deliver the two most prestigious lecture series in her discipline: she will give the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in spring 2010 and the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University in 2014-2015.
“In Debra Condren’s book Am-BITCH-ous, she writes, ‘The greatest barrier to earning more money, getting the power and recognition we deserve, and feeling entittled to save the course comes from inside of ourselves… Ambition isn’t a dirty word, but as far as many women are concerned, it might as well be.’ Condren, like the young women who launched the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Yale, believes ‘ambition is a virture, not a vice,’ and encourages women to aim for the leadership roles they frequently shy away from.”
The Nation, 2007
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Joanne Lipman, Founding Editor of Conde Naste's Portfolio
Mary Miller, First Female Dean of Yale College
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