ClevelandWomen.com
Future Leaders Class of 2008
- Speakers -

The following are on the agenda for the 2008 ClevelandWomen.com Leadership Event.
(Listed in alphabetical order)

Mayor Jane Campbell

Jane Campbell served as the 55th and first female Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 2002 to 2006. As the Mayor, she focused on economic development, budgetary discipline, technology improvement, and redevelopment of the City's Lake Erie waterfront.

Campbell's efforts supported initiation of $3 billion of development in Cleveland during a tough economy. The Flats East Bank project, The Avenue District, Battery Park, and East 4th Street are a few examples of work started under Campbell's leadership.

Throughout her term, the city added nearly 1,500 new housing units per year slowing the decline in population. Jane Campbell is nationally recognized for her work in integrating innovation and technology in all government departments, as well as using technology as an economic development tool to train and re-educate Cleveland's workforce. Campbell brought computers to each front line police car, initiated accountability by tracking police response, building inspections and permits, and park maintenance. She now serves as a senior fellow at the Center for Digital Government, working with industry and government leaders across the country to improve efficiency through technology.

Mayor Campbell's 21 year career in elected office included the Ohio House of Representatives serving in increasing leadership from majority whip to assistant minority leader, President of the National Conference of State Legislatures and Cuyahoga County Commissioner.

She is board-certified in internal medicine and licensed to practice in both Massachusetts and Ohio. Dr. Celestin's specialty interests include lower-extremity edema, peripheral arterial disease, upper-extremity disorders, as well as minority and women's healthcare initiatives.

Dr. Celestin has contributed her time to local civic activities such as mentoring high school students and volunteering at a free clinic.

On an international level, she has participated in community outreach programs in Costa Rica and Cuba. She speaks both Spanish and French Creole.

A native of Cleveland and a first-generation college student, Eisenmann earned her B.A. in English summa cum laude from Connecticut College, and a master's degree in American Literature at Georgetown University before turning to the study of education. She completed a master's and doctorate in History of Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Before joining John Carroll, Eisenmann was Professor of Education and former director of the doctoral program in Higher Education Administration at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has previously taught at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and Bowdoin College, and has held several collegiate administrative posts, including assistant director of a research center at Radcliffe College.

A historian interested in the social context of higher education, Eisenmann's scholarship has examined the history and impact of coeducation, the history of teacher training institutions, and the history of professionalization in colleges and universities. She has edited the Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States (Greenwood Press, 1998), a reader-friendly analysis of available research.

Her forthcoming book, Reclaiming the Incidental Student: Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 (Johns Hopkins University Press), explores the impact of postwar cultural expectations on women's collegiate experience. Eisenmann has published widely, including in Teachers College Record, Academe, and History of Education Quarterly, among other venues.

Active in several national scholarly associations, she is Past President of the History of Education Society, former Vice President (in the division of History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association, and former Director of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Presently, she sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education and the Journal of Educational Administration and History (U.K.).

Successful Entrepreneur and Attorney Cathy Horton has spent over 20 years cultivating a global mergers & acquisitions and venture finance legal practice, serving a myriad of clients that range from the Fortune 100 companies to emerging and mid-market enterprises. She spent 15 years in London, where she developed a passion for technology in the emerging companies' market place.

Cathy is the founder and leader of the Red Room Revolution, a set of 20 economic development initiatives structured to transform the Northeast Ohio Region using a technology platform.

She also is a founder of the Beta Strategy Group and Beta Opportunity Partners Fund which has made a commitment to fund 24 technology companies. Cathy is also the founder and driving force of the Children's Technology Workshop.

To date, Cathy has funded 6 companies and founded 5 of her own. Her many accomplishments in the local and international business arena won rave reviews from the inspired future leaders at the 2007 event.

In the last two years she has interviewed several notable icons, including Dr. Phil and Homer Hickam, former NASA engineer and inspiration of the 1999 film, "October Sky."

She reported shoulder-to-shoulder among the nation's best during the Virginia Tech massacre, delivering live reports for MSNBC and local station WVVA.

Maurielle showed promise in her journalism career before it technically began. She got her first on-air gig at the age of 15, anchoring and reporting for "Brookwood Upclose," a syndicated series focusing on local events and issues impacting Atlanta's youth.

At 16, she won her first international journalism award for a documentary on a local shelter for troubled youth.

Maurielle Lue is a honors graduate of Hampton University's Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. She is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the National Association of Black Journalists.

Maurielle is also a volunteer board member of Cleveland's Girls Club of Ohio.

Along with being a Notary Public, she is kept busy as a longtime volunteer for the American Cancer Society, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, West Side Catholic Center and the Fairmount School for the Arts.

She got her start as a print model for Halle Bros. and was soon drafted by the other department stores and boutiques in the area. She worked in the Cleveland area through David and Lee Modeling Agency and Ford Agency until 1987, when she retired.

It is from this background that she has compiled a "Dress for Success" presentation that has been presented in the high schools throughout Northeast Ohio for the last eleven years.

Marlene is now the Executive Director of the Virginia Marti College Foundation, recently established to provide scholarships to students that desire a career in the applied arts.

The Virginia Marti College of Art and Design, the recipient of these scholarships, teaches Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Interior Design, Graphic Design and Digital Media.

Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones

As you know, the Congresswoman tragically passed away in August 2008. Her bright smile and energetic work for the community and nation will be missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends.

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The Zonta Club of Cleveland
celebrating 87 years of service to women
in the Northeast Ohio Area

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and to our host