Chapter 1: Celeste Volz Ford, Stellar Solutions, Inc. Chapter 2: Anita L. DeFrantz, LA84 Foundation and Kids in Sports
Chapter 3: Robin Ferracone, Farient Advisors, LLC
Chapter 4: Lise Luttgens, Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles
Chapter 5: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State, California
Chapter 6: Julia Gouw, East West Bank
Chapter 7: Jacqueline K. Barton, California Institute of Technology
Chapter 8: Amy Millman, Springboard Enterprises
Chapter 9: Sandra F. Witelson, McMaster University
Chapter 10: Deanell Reece Tacha, Pepperdine University School of Law
Chapter 11: Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
Chapter 12: Kellie McElhaney, Haas Business School, University of California at Berkley
Chapter 13: Laura Roden, VC Privé, LLC
Chapter 14: Myra M. Hart, Harvard Business School
Chapter 15: Catherine Bromilow, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Chapter 16: Barbara J. Beck, Learning Care Group
Chapter 17: Jeanette Horan, IBM
Chapter 18: Karen S. Guice, US Department of Defense
About the Author: Elizabeth Ghaffari is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Technology Place Inc., a California-based company that provides technical consulting services for business clients in need of successful e-business strategies and enhanced electronic communications with customers and business partners. Ghaffari also runs Champion Boards, established to foster the design of great boards of directors through knowledge and information, with a special emphasis on the advancement of top-level women to corporate board roles. She is the author of Outstanding in their Field: How Women Corporate Directors Succeed (Praeger, 2009) consisting of interviews and lessons from 15 female corporate directors at Fortune 1000 firms in California. She writes for major business journals and blogs on the topic of corporate governance and diversity. Ghaffari received her master s degree in management from the Anderson School of Business, University of California at Los Angeles, and her bachelor of science degree in political science from The American University in Washington, D.C.
