CEDAW PRESENTING SPONSOR

CEDAW CHAMPION SPONSORS

Clint & Janet Reilly

(MEDIA)

CEDAW TABLE SPONSORS Barbara Mark, Ph.D., Full Circle Institute and Friends Christine Bronstein, A Band of Wives JaMel and Tom Perkins Family Foundation Fund at The Chicago Community Trust Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
and The Office of the City Administrator

24 September 2012

Sponsors

inspiring
an equal future

Oona Marti & Sarah Diegnan Stephanie Block

CEDAW SuPPORTER

CEDAW
of the FRIENDS of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women

WOMENS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARDS LUNCHEON

CEDAW stands for the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women. In 1998, San Francisco became the first city in the world to adopt a CEDAW Ordinance. FRIENDS of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, founded in 1976, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing funding and building support for and awareness of the Commission and its work to ensure equal treatment of women and girls. San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women Julie Soo, President Nancy Kirshner-Rodriguez, Vice President Alicia M. Gmez Andrea Shorter Becca Prowda Kay Gulbengay Stephanie Simmons San Francisco Department on the Status of Women Emily M. Murase, PhD, Executive Director Aimee Allison, Media and Community Affairs Director Ann Lehman, Policy Director Carol Sacco, Grants Administrator Cynthia Vasquez, Commission Secretary Stacey Hoang, Fiscal Manager FRIENDS of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women Ryah Belford, Fellow
web www.friendscosw.org phone 415. 77. WOMEN email women@friendscosw.org

FRIENDS Board of Directors Marily Mondejar President Filipina Womens Network Diana Reyes Vice President Chevron Corporation Patricia M. Bovan Corporate Secretary Symantec Esther Colwill Treasurer Deloitte. Barbara Mark Ph.D. Full Circle Institute

Fron the President

Dear Friends,

he CEDAW Legacy continues. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 4th CEDAW Womens Human Rights Awards Luncheon. This luncheon celebrates the advancement of womens human rights and we gather every year to recognize the women, men and organizations who celebrate the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the international bill of rights for women. Many of you have come back every year and we are grateful. I would like to acknowledge our Honorary Event Chair First Lady Anita Lee for her support and the CEDAW Planning Co-Chairs, Friends Board Members Oona Marti, Patricia Bovan, Peg McAllister, and Shinta Lim for their excellent production of todays event. The Friends exist for one purpose: to raise awareness, funding, and support for the work of the San Francisco Commission and Department on the Status of Women. We organize events in the community and work to increase public awareness about issues affecting the lives of women and girls. Together, we are ALL about improving the lives and well-being of women and girls, socially, politically, and economically, and we strive to ensure an equal future for all. Our signature events and initiatives are: CEDAW Womens Human Rights Awards Womens History Month in March in collaboration with the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors honoring outstanding women in their respective districts and the city Conversations with Exceptional Women The Gender Equality Principles Initiative We invite you join the Friends, support our projects, sign up to volunteer so together we can continue our work inspiring an equal future for women and girls.

Cathy Campbell Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. Oona Marti Commonwealth Club of California Peg McAllister Lee Hecht Harrison

Shinta Lim Merrill Lynch

Stephanie Block U.S. National Committee for UN Women Emily M. Murase, PhD Ex-Officio San Francisco Department on the Status of Women

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Marily Mondejar President FRIENDS Board of Directors

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Program
CEDAW Womens Human Rights Awards
2 0 1 2 C E D AW H ON O R E E S
HEALTH Brenda Yee, Chief Executive Officer, Chinese Hospital COMMuNITY BuILDING Christine Bronstein, Founder & CEO, A Band of Wives CORPORATE LEADERSHIP Deloitte. CLAIRE JOYCE TEMPONGKO MEMORIAL AWARD Esta Soler, President, Futures Without Violence MEDIA Fabiola Kramsky, News Anchor, Univision Television Group PHILANTHROPY Janet Reilly, Co-Founder and President of the Board of Directors, Clinic by the Bay GLOBAL Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, Convener, Millionth Circle LEADERSHIP Neesha Hathi, Senior Vice President of Advisor Technology Solutions, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. TECHNOLOGY Weili Dai, Co-Founder, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. LEGACY Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr., Mayor of San Francisco (1996 - 2004)

CEDAW WOMENS HuMAN RIGHTS AWARDS Annually, the Friends of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women honor exceptional individuals and organizations whose work reflect key principles of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women. MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES Sydnie Kohara, News Anchor, CBS 5 WELCOME AND INTRODuCTIONS Marily Mondejar President, FRIENDS Board Julie Soo President, San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women RECOGNITION OF SPECIAL GuESTS Diana Reyes Vice President, FRIENDS Board SHORT FILM PRESENTATION San Francisco Department on the Status of Women DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS Emily M. Murase, PhD Executive Director, San Francisco Department on the Status of Women OPPORTuNITY TO SuPPORT THE FRIENDS Peg McAllister Member, FRIENDS Board CEDAW AWARDS PRESENTATION SPECIAL DRAWING CLOSING REMARKS Patricia Bovan Member, FRIENDS Board

web www.friendscosw.org
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Honorees
ANITA LEE HONORARY CHAIR First Lady Anita Lee is passionate about girls issues, particularly in her native China. She has organized medical missions to China on two occasions, raising money for supplies and recruiting doctors and other support staff to travel from the US to China to address cleft lip that scars girls both emotionally and physically but is easily remedied by a relatively simple procedure that is, nevertheless, out of reach for many low-income families who have little access to medical care. Ms. Lees work has touched the poorest girls in several provinces throughout China. Married since 1980, the First Lady and Mayor Edwin Lee have two daughters, Tania and Brianna, who are now both working professionals based in New York. BRENDA YEE CEO, San Francisco Chinese Hospital HEALTH For over a decade, Ms. Yee has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the San Francisco Chinese Hospital, a 54-bed, acute care, communityowned, non-profit hospital with a long and rich history of providing access to culturally competent health care services for the Chinese community at all socioeconomic levels, and the sole remaining independent hospital in San Francisco. Ms. Yee, who holds a bachelor and masters in nursing, has been working in the health field for over 30 years. She further demonstrates her commitment to providing quality health care in a cost-effective way that is nevertheless responsive to the communitys ethnic and cultural uniqueness by serving with distinction on the Governing Board of the San Francisco Health Plan, a licensed community health plan that provides affordable health care coverage to over 70,000 low and moderate-income families in San Francisco.

SYDNIE KOHARA MASTER OF CEREMONIES (MC) Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist Sydnie Kohara brings years of experience to her position as News Anchor at CBS 5. During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, she provided live global coverage to a worldwide television audience who got its first glimpse of the earthquake devastation around the San Francisco Bay Area. For their efforts, Kohara and her colleagues at KGO-TV were awarded the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Reporting, two of the highest honors bestowed in U.S. broadcast journalism. She has also worked at television stations in Sacramento, California and Montgomery, Alabama, where she was the first woman co-host of the University of Alabamas syndicated football shows. But mainly, Kohara helps people tell stories. She currently hosts webinars for the Anita Borg Institute, interviewing top women tech executives on their best practices and leadership techniques. She was among the founders of Camp CEO, a Girl Scout-sponsored retreat for at-risk teenage girls. A native of Louisiana, Sydnie Kohara graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

CHRISTINE BRONSTEIN Founder & CEO, A Band of Wives COMMuNITY BuILDING Christine Bronstein is the founder of ABandOfWives.com, a social network and information website for women. She is an editor of the forthcoming anthology Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection. She was CEO of one of the few female run venture-backed health and fitness companies in the nation for eight years and president of a child-welfare foundation for three years. She is a graduate of the Columbia/UC-Berkeley executive MBA program and a member of the honor society Beta Gamma Sigma. Chris is married to Center For Investigative Reporting Executive Chair Phil Bronstein and mother of three.

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DELOITTE / TERESA BRIGGS Managing Partner CORPORATE LEADERSHIP This year, Deloitte is celebrating the centennial of its first office in San Francisco which opened in 1912. Over the course of its exceptional history of providing accounting and consulting services to leading companies throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Deloitte has also built a significant community involvement program which, in 2011, contributed over several million dollars in pro bono services, board membership, and donations by San Francisco-based professionals. A team of Deloitte consultants is supporting the Department on the Status of Women pro bono in its effort to bring the 5th U.N. World Conference on Women to San Francisco. In 1993, Deloitte launched the Initiative for the Advancement and Retention of Women nationally which, through career sponsorship and mentoring programs for women, has increased the number of female partners from 100 to over 1,000 today. Accepting the award on behalf of Deloitte is Teresa Briggs, Managing Partner for the companys Bay Area practice which includes 2,700 professionals specializing in consulting, accounting and auditing, tax, and financial advisory services. Ms. Briggs has over 30 years of experience with the company, having served as a Mergers & Acquisitions Partner for one of the largest U.S.-based private equity investors. Her clients have also included Apple Inc., PG&E, Clorox, and McKesson. Ms. Briggs holds a B.S. from the University of Arizona.

FABIOLA KRAMSKY Anchor, univision Television Group MEDIA Emmy-award winner Fabiola Kramsky currently anchors and co-produces Al Despertar, the first Spanish-language television morning show in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to this position, Ms. Kramsky anchored the Univision Los Angeles evening newscast for a station that she helped build to become preeminent in the nation. In 2005, she was recognized for her excellence in journalism by the Club de Periodistas de Mxico for her impactful work in furthering U.S.-Mxico trans-border journalism. Previously, she served as a goodwill ambassador within the Los Angeles community, promoting worthy causes such as Ya es hora Ciudadania, a campaign to help Hispanic community members pursue U.S. citizenship and vote, and Deja Huella Educate, a youth education effort. Today, in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has helped raise awareness of domestic violence through her participation in the 2012 Vagina Monologues, presented by the Filipina Womens Network in collaboration with Eve Enslers V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

ESTA SOLER Founder & President, Futures Without Violence CLAIRE JOYCE TEMPONGKO MEMORIAL AWARD Esta Soler, Founder and President of the San Francisco-based Futures Without Violence, is internationally recognized as a foremost expert on violence against women and children. Under her exceptional leadership, Futures Without Violence (formerly the Family Violence Prevention Fund) has pioneered innovative and effective strategies to prevent domestic, dating and sexual violence, stalking, and child abuse that have touched millions of lives around the world. Ms. Soler has worked tirelessly at the national and international levels to advance legislative and fundamental solutions to addressing violence against women, including successful passage of the federal 1994 Violence Against Women Act, the first comprehensive response to domestic violence which was expanded by the U.S. Congress in 2000 and 2005, and her continued efforts to enact the International Violence Against Women Act. Ms. Soler has been a consultant and advisor to numerous public and private agencies, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Aspen Institute, the Ford Foundation, and Harvard University.
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JANET REILLY Co-Founder & President of the Board of Directors for Clinic by the Bay PHILANTHROPY Janet Reilly is the visionary Co-Founder and President of the Board of Directors of the groundbreaking Clinic by the Bay, a Volunteers in Medicine Clinic in the Excelsior District of San Francisco. The Clinic by the Bay engages retired doctors and nurses to provide free primary care health services to the working uninsured for San Francisco and Daly City families, all without relying on public funding. Ms. Reilly has also shown exceptional leadership in her civic activities, leading the way for other women civic leaders as President of the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation Authority, by serving on the boards of the Asian Art Museum and the San Francisco Film Society, and as a tireless supporter of numerous womens organizations. Previously, Ms. Reilly served as the Manager of Public Relations for the Mervyns Department Stores, a chain of 264 stores in 14 states. A member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Ms. Reilly holds a BA with honors from UCLA and a masters degree from Northwestern University.

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DR. JEAN SHINODA BOLEN Convener, Millionth Circle GLOBAL Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and internationallyknown author and speaker who has been named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and served as a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. She currently serves as the Convener of the Millionth Circle, an initiative to cultivate equality, sustainable livelihoods, preservation of the earth, and peace for all. A past member of the Board of Directors of the Ms. Foundation for Women, today she continues to work for the advancement of women as the initiator and tireless advocate of a 5th U.N. World Conference on Women. Her petition in support of this conference boasts over 15,000 signers, including such women luminaries as Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, and Isabel Allende (www.5wcw.org). As a long-time participant in the annual U.N. Commission on the Status of Women meetings, Dr. Bolen is well-known in international circles of women leaders for her persistent and persuasive advocacy.

WEILI DAI Co-Founder, Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. TECHNOLOGY An immigrant from China and graduate of UC Berkeley in computer science, Weili Dai of the Marvell Technology Group is the only woman co-founder of a global semiconductor company which she began in 1995 and has built into one of the premier semiconductor companies in the world, providing essential components to the worlds leading communications, mobile computer, and consumer markets. She has also become a driving force for expanding access to technology in the developing world and as an ambassador of U.S.-China trade and exchange, particularly in education and green technologies. Ms. Dai has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the community as a sponsor of the One Laptop Per Child Program, and as a board member for the disaster relief organization Give2Asia. She is substantively engaged in key policy issues as a member of the Executive Committees for TechNet and the Bay Area Council and was named to the influential Committee of 100, a celebrated organization of Chinese American leaders.

NEESHA HATHI Senior Vice President, Charles Schwab LEADERSHIP Neesha Hathi is Senior Vice President of Advisor Technology Solutions at Charles Schwab. In this role, she leads teams in Schwab Performance Technologies and Schwab Intelligent Technologies, and is a member of the senior leadership team for Schwab Advisor Services. She also represents Schwab Advisor Services views on industry topics and champions Schwabs commitment to improving technology standards. Prior to joining Charles Schwab in 2004, Ms. Hathi led strategy, marketing, and finance for various start-ups including Kibu, a media company targeting the teen girl market. Ms. Hathi uses her leadership to give a voice for the advancement of women through her service on the Executive Board of Directors for the International Museum of Women an organization that inspires creativity, awareness and action on vital global issues for women such as a focus on work-life balance advocating for mothers human rights and advances in maternal health.

WILLIE L. BROWN, JR. Chairmand & CEO, Institute on Politics and Public Service Mayor of San Francisco (1996 2004) LEGACY It was then Mayor of San Francisco Willie L. Brown, Jr. who, on November 17, 1997, signed the first local ordinance in the world to reflect the principles of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and it has been the San Francisco Department on the Status of Womens proud responsibility to oversee the CEDAW Ordinances implementation ever since. Mayor Browns political career spans over 40 years and includes groundbreaking work at the state and local levels in civil rights, education reform, tax policy, economic development, health care, international trade, domestic partnerships, and affirmative action. During his two terms as mayor, he held annual Womens Summits which were attended by thousands each year and, with the likes of Oprah Winfrey as speakers, brought focused attention to womens issues. Mayor Brown continues to build his legacy as the head of the Willie L. Brown, Jr., Institute on Politics and Public Service where he is developing a new generation of responsible California leaders.

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