Karly Beaumont

is the Program Coordinator at Chica Luna Productions, a holistic media training center for low income women of color.  Her short film, I’m Not Here deals with sexual abuse.  She has a feature film script in development.  She teaches Chica Luna’s core F-Word multimedia justice project for young women.   Karly started her career in theatre and has worked with two of the most innovative theater production companies in New York City: Project 400 Theater Group and Two Noses Productions.

Susan Feiner

is a Professor of Economics and chairs the University of Southern Maine’s Women’s Studies Program.  She has written extensively on feminist economics, directing that writing to a wide public audience through publications like Women's Enews, Dollars&Sense, and The Women's Review of Books. She is founding editor of Feminist Economics. She is co-author of the award-winning book, Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization (with Professor D. Barker, University of Michigan Press, 2004).

 

Lillian Jiménez

serves as Interim Executive Director of Chica Luna Productions in New York City.   Among her many film works are What You Could Do With a Nickel? and SisterSong.  She is currently completing "Antonia Pantoja: !Presente!" a documentary on the life and work of the visionary leader.  In her extensivecareer she helped found National Association of Independent Latino Producers, worked at the Funding Exchange’s Paul Robeson Fund for Film, and has consulted with scores of arts and media organizations.

Lisa McLaughlin

Associate Professor of Communication and Women’s Studies at Miami University (Ohio), is a founding editor and co-editor of Feminist Media Studies, an international, peer-reviewed journal. She has authored numerous publications on feminist political economy of communications, women and work in multinational technology corporations, and gender and information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D).

 

Shireen Mitchell

is founding Executive Director of Digital Sisters, Inc., a technology social service agency based in Washington,DC. Digital Sisters is committed to effective technology integration for the social, civic, and economic security into the lives of low-income communities. She blogs regularly at wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/ and http://www.Socialmediawoc.com.  Recently Shireen helped to organize the highly successful fem2pt0.com conference.  She serves as Vice Chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations.

Lisa Rudman

is the Executive Director of National Radio Project, producer of the weekly social justice radio show “Making Contact,” now broadcasts on over 200 radio stations and at http://www.radioproject.org. She directed their Women’s Desk from 1998 to 2003 and deepened the organization's commitment to training and community collaborations. A long time grassroots activist, Lisa also is an award winning documentary video maker.

 

Ariel Dougherty

has initiated Media Equity Collaborative, and coordinates the first project, Women’s Media Equity Collaborative. As associate director of Lynn Hershman’s documentary, Women, Art & Revolution, she assisted in raising a single $100,000 contribution to this film on the Feminist Art Movement.  Her article, The Intersections of Women’s Media and The Struggle for Our Human Rights to Create a Just Society, was published in the Fall 2008 edition of Global Media Journal.  Dougherty was a co-founder of Women Make Movies in 1969, which she and Sheila Paige incorporated as a feminist media teaching and distribution organization in 1972.

 

Collaborating on the SUMMIT are also

Nadia Abou-Karr the INCITE!  Trans People of Color  Track Coordinator at Allied Media Project

Stacey Milbern radical disability youth activist, Cripchick blogger, and AMC INCITE! Track Advisory Board member.