:: Celebrate Women Conference
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Christine Pelosi, author of Campaign Bootcamp, and Mary Taylor, Auditor of State, Headline Celebrate Women

Christine Pelosi, author of Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders, will offer the keynote address during Celebrate Women, a day-long conference held in recognition of Women’s History Month at Ohio University Lancaster Campus March 7. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with Pelosi speaking at 10:30 a.m.

Activist, attorney, and now, author, Pelosi has a lifetime of grassroots experience in politics and public policy. She has engaged in extensive voter contact, education, and mobilization efforts at the local, state, and federal levels. She has served as executive director of the California Democratic Party, deputy city attorney and assistant district attorney for the City of San Francisco, special counsel in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and chief of staff to U.S. Congressman John F. Tierney (MA-06). Since 1996, she has chaired the California Democratic Party Platform Committee and served as an elected member of the Democratic National Committee, where she co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council. Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders emerged from her years of grassroots activism and her service as director of the AFSCME PEOPLE/New House PAC 2006 Congressional Candidates Boot Camp, which worked with over 40 challengers, 12 of whom were elected to Congress. She holds a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law and a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. An avid baseball fan, she lives within walking distance of her beloved San Francisco Giants. Christine is married to filmmaker Peter Kaufman.

Campaign Boot Camp distills best practices from well-known political figures and advocates and combines a call to public service with a concise methodology for successful involvement in participatory democracy. The book is available for purchase in the Lancaster Campus Bookstore.

With a theme of “Women in Politics,” this year’s conference features sessions on women elected to public office, women in the media, gender and politics, women’s legal issues in planning for their futures, finance and politics, the art of negotiation, the politics of fundraising, popular culture, and going green and the politics of our planet.

Auditor of State Mary Taylor will deliver a luncheon keynote address at Ohio University Pickerington Center’s Celebrate Women conference, to be held on March 14, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The first certified public accountant to serve as Ohio’s Auditor, Taylor previously spent two terms in the Ohio House of Representatives as a member of several committees, including House Finance, Ways and Means, and Education.

During her terms in the state legislature Taylor received the Watchdog of the Treasury Award and the 2006 National Federation of Independent Business Guardian of Small Business Award.

Taylor began her career in public service as a city councilwoman in Green, Ohio. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting and taxation from the University of Akron, she worked for Deloitte and Touche.

At the regional firm of Bober Markey Fedorovich & Company she directed the firm’s tax department and served as senior manager of the employee benefits practice. Taylor also taught accounting courses as an adjunct professor at Walsh University.

Maintaining the “Women in Politics” theme, the Center’s conference offers sessions on women in the military, women elected to public office, climbing the corporate ladder, finance and investing, the art of negotiation, the politics of fundraising, the environment, women in public service, women leaders in education, women as business owners.

The cost per conference, including lunch, is $25. Anyone choosing to attend both conferences will pay $40. Students may attend at $20 per conference or $35 for both days.

Vendor displays also will be available.

Sponsors of the event include Ohio University Lancaster and Pickerington; Kroger; Taylor Team of Dealerships; Business Systems Solutions, Inc.; Fairfield National Bank; Fairfield Medical Center; OfficeMax; and The Wine Guy.

For additional information or to register for the event, call 654.6711 or 888.446.4468, ext. 624, or visit www.lancaster.ohiou.edu.

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New for OUPC!  An Undergraduate Certificate in Women's Studies.
Now, for the first time on a regional campus, you can take all required courses to receive an Undergraduate Certificate in Woman's Studies from Ohio University Pickerington Center.  Core requirements are; WS 100, 200, 350 and 480.

To enroll in the program or find out more information, ask at the Pickerington reception desk for an application or make an appointment with Dr. Pamela Kaylor, dawes@ohio.edu.