<p>Amy Domini is Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments. She is widely recognized as the leading voice for socially responsible investing. In 2005, Time magazine named her to the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. Also in 2005, President Clinton honored her at the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative for helping protect children and the environment through the Domini Fund for International Giving. </p> <p>Domini is the author of "Socially Responsible Investing: Making a Difference and Making Money" (Dearborn Trade, 2001) and "The Challenges of Wealth" (Dow Jones Irwin, 1988), and a coauthor of "Investing for Good" (Harper Collins, 1993), "The Social Investment Almanac" (Henry Holt, 1992), and "Ethical Investing" (Addison-Wesley, 1984). She is a frequent guest commentator on CNBC's Talking Stocks and various other radio and television shows.</p> <p>Amy Domini holds a B.A. in international and comparative studies from Boston University, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.</p>
<p>Tiffany Norwood, co-founder of Next Generation Broadband (NGB), is the Executive Vice President of Commercial Operations. Norwood manages all commercial activities for NGB, including sales, marketing, product development, customer management, strategic partnerships, as well as, corporate strategy. </p> <p>Prior to NGB, Norwood was the Director of European Operations for Road Runner International, as well as a general manager for the international team. Before Road Runner, Norwood was in charge of International Business Development for WorldSpace, a satellite radio company that launched XM Radio. Norwood was one of the original employees of WorldSpace. She was responsible for all global deals including those with CNN International and Bloomberg. </p> <p>Norwood has also worked in the investment banking industry, including leading players such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Citicorp. She has spent many years in the internet and telecommunications industry. Her experience spans several countries, including England, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, South Africa and the Netherlands.</p> <p>Tiffany Norwood received a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University. She also earned a bachelor's in Economics with a concentration in statistics and electrical engineering from Cornell University.</p>
Jill Hurst-Wahl, MLS, is a digitization consultant and owner of Hurst Associates, Ltd. She also teaches digitization for Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. Prior to forming Hurst Associates, she worked for Manning & Napier Advisors and Corning Incorporated.
Hurst-Wahl has more than 15 years of diversified professional experience with significant accomplishments in information retrieval and information technology. She is currently working on a two-year planning project with the Western New York Library Resources Council. She has also completed planning projects with the Capital District Library Council and the South Central Regional Library Council. She has also worked on several private (in-house) projects and the Women's Suffrage Digitization Project, a demonstration project completed in 2000 by the Rochester Regional Library Council. Her knowledge in the area of digitization includes project planning, project management, vendor selection, intellectual property concerns, and material access.
Jill Hurst-Wahl received her MLS from University of Maryland's College of Library and Information Science and her Bachelor's degree from Elmira College.
Sara Jobin made history in 2004 as the first woman to conduct on the mainstage subscription series at San Francisco Opera. She conducted performances of Puccini's Tosca with Carol Vaness in the title role and Wagner's Flying Dutchman with Juha Uusitalo and Nina Stemme; the following season she conducted multiple performances of Bellini's Norma. Jobin has also led performances for the San Francisco Opera Center. Prior to her six years as an assistant with the San Francisco Opera, she conducted for Opera San Jose for four years. Her recording with Frederica von Stade of the music of Chris Brubeck has recently come out on the Koch International Classics label; it features the Tassajara Symphony, an organization she led for four years after its founding in 1998. She has also conducted the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, The Women's Philharmonic, Oakland East Bay Symphony, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic, and Toledo Symphony. At age 16 she attended Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, where she was named a Leonard Bernstein Music Scholar. After graduation, as a John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellow, she studied conducting with Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School. In 1999 she was the first recipient of the JoAnn Falletta Award, given by The Women's Philharmonic in recognition of a young female conductor of outstanding promise.
Sheila Kennedy is the Principal and Founder of Kennedy & Violich Architecture. Kennedy's professional internship was conducted in Switzerland at the office of Mario Campi and at the Boston based firm of Kallmann, McKinnel and Wood. Sheila Kennedy combines professional practice with instruction in architectural design as an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and offers to the firm her design expertise on electrical and information infrastructures and strategic conceptual problem solving. Sheila Kennedy received the Masters Degree in Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she was graduated with Distinction.
Jessica Crolick Rolph is founding partner and COO of HappyFamily, a start-up company that produces and markets fresh-frozen, all organic baby and toddler meals. Previously she worked at Whole Foods in national purchasing for SPINS, the leading provider of information to the natural products industry. She also has worked with Lance Armstrong's business agent to develop the concept for the Lance Armstrong branded food line. Based on Newman's Own business model, all proceeds were to benefit Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Jessica Crolick Rolph received an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University in 2004, and was awarded a full MBA scholarship, the Park Leadership Fellowship, for leadership in socially responsible business.
As part of that fellowship, she helped launch Ithaca Fine Chocolates, a socially responsible, fair-trade-certified organic chocolate company based in Ithaca that makes and markets "Art Bars". Each chocolate bar features a card with a reproduction of work by local artists or international children's art. The students developed a business plan, including a financial accounting system and pricing model for the chocolate bars; helped source their manufacture; created a distribution plan using multiple channel; and developed a relationship with Whole Foods as a key sales partner.
In addition to holding an MBA from Cornell University, Jessica Crolick Rolph also received her BA from Cornell.
Barbara Lang, founder of RTR Ideas, offers a wide range of experiences, including 10 years as a culinary director at a Napa Valley winery; a former co-owner of a successful restaurant in Ithaca, NY; 17 years as a lecturer at Cornell's Hotel School and is author of "From Restaurant to Retail, a Handbook for Food Professionals".
Lang developed and launched The Ithaca Wegman's Culinary School, produced and hosted a series of food programs and culinary videos for Cornell's Cooperative Extension, created the Popcork Experience, a fun, interactive wine and food pairing experience, developed the Rolling Stove, a series of culinary adventures for children, and was past president of the American Cheese Society. A popular public speaker, Lang has spoken at over 50 conferences and symposia, including at the National Restaurant Show, The Professional Association of Innkeepers International and the California Wine Experience.
Barbara Lang holds an undergraduate degree in Hotel Administration from Cornell University's Hotel School and a masters degree in professional studies in Food Marketing from Cornell University's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
Dr. Lois Frankel is a professional coach and author.
Her last two books, "Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office" and "Nice Girls Don't Get Rich" are international bestsellers translated into over twenty-five languages worldwide.
Frankel has been featured on the TODAY Show, CNN and CNBC, in the New York Times, USA Today, and in PEOPLE and TIME Magazines. BUSINESSWEEK named Corner Office among its top ten business books of 2004 and Paramount purchased the rights for a major motion picture.
Combining her experience in human resources at a Fortune 10 oil company with insights and information from her Ph.D. in Psychology, Dr. Frankel founded Corporate Coaching International, headquartered in Pasadena, California. Her client list reads like a who's who of multinational corporations, including Amgen, British Petroleum, McKinsey & Company, Inc., Procter & Gamble, Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company and Goldman Sachs to name just a few of the hundreds of companies that have invited her back time and again.
Lois Frankel holds a PhD in Psychology from University of Southern California.
Katie Brown is an American home and gardening television show host, author, actress, and trained art historian. Brown opened her first store called "Goat", which was located in Los Angeles and Mackinac Island, Michigan. It was a popular antique store and cafe. Katie has been serving up dime-store domesticity on Lifetime Television's Next Door with Katie Brown since October 1997. She has opened her own workshops in Los Angeles, New York, and Bridgehampton. Previously, Brown had a catering business in Los Angeles and raced on the U.S. Ski Team. Katie Brown received her undergraduate degree in Art History from Cornell University.