Planning Committee 

Rita Barnard, PhD
Director of Women's Studies
Alice Paul Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality, University of  Pennsylvania

Eugenie L. Birch, PhD
Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education
Department of City and Regional Planning
Co-Chair, Penn Institute for Urban Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Carole Boyd, PhD, MSN, FAAN
Professor, Nursing and Women's Studies
Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan
Visiting Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Anna D. Wolf Chair
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
National Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars

Kristina L. Clark
Director of Operations
University of Pennsylvania Alumni Relations

Melissa Weiler Gerber
Executive Director
Women’s Way

J.A. Grisso, MD, MSCE
Professor of Public Health
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Anne E. Hochwalt, PhD, DABT
Procter & Gamble
Fem Care External Relations

Ellen Hershey Kapito, RN
Overseer, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Kate Kinslow, EdD, MBA, CRNA
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Hospital

Jack Ludmir, MD
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital;
Vice Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pennsylvania Hospital &
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania  

Shannon Lundeen, PhD
Associate Director
Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
University of Pennsylvania

Afaf Meleis, PhD, DrPS (hon), FAAN
Margaret Bond Simon Dean
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Marjorie Muecke, PhD, RN, FAAN
Assistant Dean
Global Health Affairs
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Carolyn M. Sampselle, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research
University of Michigan School of Nursing
Visiting Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Susan Sorenson, PhD
Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice

Suman Sureshbabu
Research Associate, Foundation Initiatives
The Rockefeller Foundation

Anne M. Teitelman, PhD, CRNP
Assistant Professor, Center for Health Disparities Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Susan Wachter, PhD
Professor of Real Estate and Finance
Co-Director - Institute for Urban Research
University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School

Anne B. Waters, PhD
Executive Director
University of Pennsylvania Office of International Programs

Nancy Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Family and Child Nursing
University of Washington School of Nursing