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EVENT CHAIR CAROL JENKINS, HONORARY CHAIRS NAN AND DR. TOM REES, AMREF USA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LISA MEADOWCROFT & AMREF USA CHAIR MARY JANE POTTER
Cordially Invite You to Attend
AMREF USA’s
HEALTHYGIRLSANDWOMEN = HEALTHYAFRICA
A Luncheon Dedicated to Improving the Health of Women and Girls in Africa
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010
THE PLAZA HOTEL, NYC
RECEPTION 11:30 AM ~ LUNCHEON, AWARDS & PANEL DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW
FOR QUICK AND EASY REGISTRATION OR FOR MORE INFORMATION,
PLEASE CONTACT US AT: 212-768-2440 or amrefevent@amrefusa.org
Honoring
Jennifer & Peter Buffett
President & Co-Chairs, NoVo Foundation
Ambassador Swanee Hunt
President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
Mary Robinson
President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative; Former President of Ireland
Miriam K. Were
Recipient, French Legion of Honor & Laureate, Noguchi Prize; Former International Chair, AMREF
ACCENTURE
AMREF’s partner in developing e-learning to upgrade 22,000 Kenyan nurses to RN level
Featured Panelists
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists; Authors of “Half the Sky”
Presenters
Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic
Her Excellency Ida Odinga, Wife of Kenya’s Prime Minister; Patron, White Ribbon Alliance
Invocation
The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.
Healing of the Nations Foundation; Senior Minister Emeritus, The Riverside Church
COMMITTEE-IN-FORMATION
VICE-CHAIRS
Mr. & Mrs. Ned W. Bandler*
Dina Dublon
Andrew Farkas, Island Capital
Julian Gangolli, Allergen, Inc.
Bonnie Schaefer
Marla Schaefer
Timothy S. Wilson*, Caxton Associates LLC
Andrew Witty, GlaxoSmithKline
HONORARY COMMITTEE
Nejma & Peter Beard
Waris Dirie
Abigail E. Disney, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
Riane Eisler, Real Wealth of America
Eve Ensler
Mia Farrow
Jane Fonda
Laurie A. Garrett, Council on Foreign Relations
Helen LaKelly Hunt, The Sister Fund
Kayce Freed Jennings
Bill T. Jones, Director, Fela!
Michele Landsberg & Stephen Lewis, The Stephen Lewis Foundation
Laura A. Liswood, Council of Women World Leaders
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, The First Lady of San Francisco
Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Ruined
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Redford
Drs. Sonia & Jeffrey Sachs, Earth Institute and Millennium Villages
Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Gloria Steinem
Mena Suvari
COMMITTEE-IN-FORMATION
Linda Basch, National Council for Research on Women
Dr. Lennette Benjamin, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sam Bennett, Women’s Campaign Forum
Taina Bien-Aime, Equality Now
Kimberly Butler, Kimberly Butler Photography
Teresa Clarke, Africa.com
Dorothy Davis, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund
Dr. Rodney Davis*, Vanderbilt University
Barbara Dobkin, Dobkin Family Foundation
Dr. Pamela I. Ellsworth*
Alissa Everett, Alissa Everett Photography
Gloria Feldt, GloriaFeldt.com
Sandra Finley, League of Black Women
Jill & Charles H. F. Garner*, Island Capital
Tracy Gary, Inspired Legacies
Sara Gould, Ms. Foundation for Women
Jehmu Greene, The Women’s Media Center
Christine L. Grogan*, GroMarketShare
Christine Grumm, The Women’s Funding Network
Donna Hall, Women Donors Network
Janet Hanson, 85 Broads
Ruth Ann Harnisch, The Harnisch Foundation
Hugh Hogan, North Star Fund
Carol Holding*, Holding Associates
Lady Hollick, Chair, AMREF United Kingdom
Gloria Jacobs, The Feminist Press
Alan Jenkins, Opportunity Agenda
Rita Henley Jensen, Women’s eNews
Beth Preble & Stephen C. Joseph, M.D.*, Blackdog Associates
Jurate Kazickas, Award-winning Journalist
Susan & Robert W. C. Lilley*
Mr. & Mrs. William H. MacArthur*, The Brooksville Fund
Marjorie Margolies, Women’s Campaign International
Elliott J. Millenson*, Alcumus Technologies LLC
Pat Mitchell, The Paley Center for Media
Susan Ness, Susan Ness Strategies
Victoria L. Obst-Hausman*, Dalberg Global Development Advisors
Honie Ann Peacock
Mary Jane Potter*, Chair, AMREF USA
Merle Rubine, YMCA of Greater New York
Susan Sarfati, High Performance Strategies
Regina Kulik Scully, RPR Marketing Communications
Theresa Shaver, White Ribbon Alliance
Jill Sheffield, Women Deliver
Dr. Deborah Tolman, Hunter College
Trish & Ian Tweedley
Faye Wattleton, Center for the Advancement of Women
Jessica Weber, Jessica Weber Design Inc.
Terrie Williams, The Stay Strong Foundation
Marie C. Wilson, The White House Project
Lisa Witter, Fenton Communications
Jacki Zehner, Circle Financial Group
Photography on Display by Alissa Everett
AMREF was founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa by Michael Wood, Archibald McIndoe and Tom Rees, doctors who literally flew to the remotest communities of East Africa to bring medical care. Since then, we have been creating simple and cost-effective health solutions that transform the lives of families and communities across East Africa.
The HEALTHYGIRLSANDWOMEN=HEALTHYAFRICA benefit luncheon is dedicated to expanding AMREF’s vital work helping girls and women in Africa live healthy and productive lives.
“AMREF has been saving lives year after year for decades, and should give us all hope that even the most complex health challenges can be overcome.” —Bill Gates
Winner of the Gates Award, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for Global Health
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