Outreach
Community Outreach
The Center for Women's and Gender Studies is pleased to announce the formation of our new Community Advisory Board. Within the the central Texas area there are many organizations and individuals that seek to promote gender equity and to understand and improve the lives of women, girls, and families. We applaud their efforts and endeavor to provide scholarly support for their work. Our new Community Advisory Board includes representatives from business, the arts, education, and advocacy organizations that are involved in such efforts. We plan to work with these distinguished community leaders to plan programs and workshops that allow our faculty and students to learn from the experience and expertise of community members and that provide scholarly support to groups seeking to understand and advance the position of women and girls. We will also seek the board's assistance in our development efforts, so that we can achieve financial security for our programs.
Linda Aaker - Attorney, author of A Women's Odyssey, active participant in environmental and political causes. She is a freelance writer and the former Chief of the Antitrust Division of the Texas Attorney General's office. She also served on the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Cathy Bonner - Business woman and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Women's Museum in Dallas. She also helped to found Leadership Texas and is on the board of directors for the Foundation for Women's Resources. She was the Executive Director of the Department of Commerce under Governor Ann Richards.
Evan Carton - Director of the Humanities Institute and Professor of English at UT Austin. Carton is a community leader whose research interests include abolition and social reform in the U.S. Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, was published this year by Free Press.
Lulu Flores - Attorney and community leader. Flores is the legislative coordinator for the Mexican-American Bar Association, vice president of public affairs at the MexicArte Museum, is serving her second term on the diversity and outreach section of the National Women's Political Caucus, and is immediate past president of the Texas Political Caucus. She also served two terms as chair of the Women's Advocacy Board and was on its board for 10 years.
Cynthia Levinson - Educational consultant, community activist, and author. Levinson used to work for the Texas Education Agency. She is active in the Austin Interfaith Alliance and in the Breast Cancer Resource Center.
Catherine Mauzy - Attorney and community activist. Mauzy is regarded as one of the leading family law practitioners in the state. She is also involved in reproductive rights and other progressive causes. She is currently the chairperson of the NARAL Pro-Choice Board. Last fall, she helped to lead the anti-Prop 2 campaign.
Rachel Muir - Social Entrepreneur and Business Leader. She is the founder and executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit organization that empowers girls to excel in math and science.
Regina Rogoff - Executive Director of People's Community Clinic, a not-for-profit primary care clinic providing affordable health care for uninsured central Texans. Prior to joining PCC, Regina was Executive Director of Legal Aid of Central Texas for twenty years. She serves on the Board of Capital I.D.E.A. and is a co-chair of Austin Interfaith. She is the immediate past-president of the Austin Area Human Services Association and secretary of the Indigent Care Collaboration.
Nancy Scanlan - Professional award-winning photographer and long-time community leader. In addition to her work with Save Our Springs Alliance in Austin, she is a board member of KMFA, classical radio station in Austin, TX; Texas Photographic Society, and Advisory Councils of the University of Texas School of Architecture and the Ransom Center.
Martha Smiley - Businesswoman and and community leader. She is a co-founding shareholder of Grande Communications. Her corporate and community leadership is reflected in her public and community service positions including: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System; Board President, SafePlace Foundation Board; President, KLRU Public Television Board; President, Foundation for Women's Resources Board, and a founding member of Leadership Texas and Leadership America.
Judge Bea Ann Smith - Justice on the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District. She also is the first Texas judge to serve as president of the National Association of Women Judges. She is on the faculty of the Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University Law School and is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Law School. In 1999 she won the Outstanding Achievement award by the Women Lawyers Association. She is a member of Leadership Texas and the Texas Journal of Women and the Law and the Journal of Texas Administrative Law.
Gerald Torres - Professor of Law, UT Austin, is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Torres has served as deputy assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and as counsel to then U.S. attorney general Janet Reno. His latest book, The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2002) with Harvard law professor Lani Guinier, was described by Publisher's Weekly as "one of the most provocative and challenging books on race produced in years." Torres was honored with the 2004 Legal Service Award from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for his work to advance the legal rights of Latinos.
Women's and Gender Studies 300 Club Founding Members
Carmelina Cutro Albino, FL; Jean Andrews, Community; Jacqueline Angel, LBJ School; Katie Arens, Germanic Languages; Cheryl Armbrust, Community; Judith Bailey, Community; Nancy Baker Jones, Community; Suzanne Barber, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ann R. Barker, Community; Peg Berdahl, Honorary Member; Jan Beyer, Management; Rebecca Bigler, Psychology; Mary Blitch, Honorary Member; Dorothy Blodgett, Community; Terrell Blodgett, Professor Emeritus; Carla Blumberg, Former Austinite; Laura Burney, San Antonio; Illene Busch-Vishniac, Johns Hopkins University; Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, English; Susan Cassano, Community; Frances Cushing, Community; Jess Chapin, UT Alumna; Chris Cowden, Women & Their Work; Shannon Davies, Community; Desley Deacon, American Studies; Miriam DeFord, Community; Millie Douglas, Community; Laurie Eiserloh, UT Alumna; Donald L. Evans, Chairman, UT System Board of Regents; Rolland Fellows, Community; Elizabeth Fernea, English; Priscilla and Peter T. Flawn, Former UT President and President ad-interim; Betty Sue Flowers, English; Forbidden Fruit, Community; Carol Fredericks, Community; James Garrison, Chair, English; Lucia & Jack Gilbert, Ed. Psych. & Chemistry; Melissa C. Gilbert, CA; Katherine Giltinan, Art Education (UT Graduate Student); Sue Grobe, Nursing; Barbara Harlow, English; Harriett Harrow, Community; Hillary Hart, Civil Engineering; Susan Heinzelman, English; Diane Henson, Community; Allison Hewitt, Development Office; Martha Hilley, Music; Joanna Hitchcock, UT Press; Martha Hudson, Community; Ted Huston, Human Ecology; Luci Baines Johnson, Community; Theresa Kelley, English; Ronya Kozmetsky, Community; Berf Kreitier, Friend of Women's Studies; Judy Langlois, Psychology; Alice Lawler, Community; Laura Lein, Social Work; George Lenox, Honorary Member; Carol MacKay, English; Margaret Magness, Community; Fawn Mahajan, M.E.L.C.; Linda Manning, TN; Susan Marshall, Sociology; Chris Maziar, University of Minnesota; Jessica McFaddin, Community; Karline McLain, Asian Studies, (UT Graduate Student); Ruth McRoy, Social Work; Lynn Miller, Communication Studies; Leslie Moore, Educational Psychology; Patricia Morrison, Community; Betty Nunley, African and African American Studies; Karen Nunley, Community; Mary O'Grady, UT Alumna; Pat Oxford, UT System Board of Regents; Beatriz Pappas, Community; Caren Phelan, Community; Austin and Irene Phelps, Community; Vijaya Ramachandran, Computer Sciences; Linda Reichi, Physics; Ann Reynolds, Art and Art History; Helen Reynolds, PA; Karen E. Rhodes, CA; Ann Richards, Community; Victoria Rodriguez, LBJ School; Karen Rossman, WA; Mary Sanger, Community; Alexander Schilt, Houston Community; Mariellen Schwentker, Community; Barbara Shaw Alford, Community; Faegheh Shirazi-Mahajan, Middle Eastern Language and Culture; Martha E. Smiley, Former UT System Regent and Friend of Women's Studies; Justice Bea Ann Smith, Third District, Texas Court of Appeals; Carlota Smith, Linguistics; Sherry Smith, Community; Janet Taylor Spence, Psychology; Janet Staiger, RTF; Bill Stott, AMS; Sharen Strover, RTF; Teresa Sullivan, VP & Dean, Graduate Studies; Cathy Surra, Human Ecology; Janet Swaffar, Germanic Languages; Ellen Temple, Former UT System Regent and Friend of Women's Studies; Jan Todd, Kinesiology & Health Education; Kathryn Tulios, Friend of Women's Studies; Karen Uhlenbeck, Mathematics; Melba Vasquez, Community; Genevieve Vaughan, Foundation for a Compassionate Society; Dr. Niki Vick, Community; Lorraine Walker, Nursing; Ellen Wartella, Dean, College of Communication; Melba Whatley, Community; Robert Williams, Mathematics; Debbie Winegarten, Community; Ruthe Winegarten, Friend of Women's Studies; Zipporah Wiseman, Law School; and Susan Zachos, Friend of Women's Studies.
