Comments on: A List, To Start

By: Jen Bekman

Jen Bekman — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:51:55 +0000

For the sake of organization, I’m closing comments on this post. If you have additions, please add them in comments in the main List of Women Speakers For Your Conference post, following these guidelines:

1- Scan the list the make sure that the woman you’re recommending isn’t already listed.

2- Please provide a link/website address if possible.

3- Give us a brief description of what the person’s specialty/field is.

Perfect suggestion:

Caterina Fake:
Entrepreneur, Designer, currently leading Yahoo’s Brickhouse division.

URLS:
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.caterina.net

Et Voila! Thanks for your input.

By: Jack Nealy

Jack Nealy — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:28:07 +0000

Linda Zacks
http://www.extra-oomph.com

By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:05:41 +0000

I’m happy to see that so many people are concerned about representing a diverse panel. I am a landscape architecture student, and I find that the general public does not understand what a landscape architect is and what we do. Some of the women that I hope to see honored for their contribution to creativity are:
kathryn gustafson
martha shwartz
christy ten eyck
some of the men I hope to see honored are:
ken smith
buro kiefer
laurie olin

By: matahari

matahari — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:09:26 +0000

thanks for doing this. i was quite disgusted to see the ad for “creativity now” without any women and lost any interest in attending. it’s amazing that people who profess to be not the mainstream are so lame and unoriginal. thanks for making noise about what a lot of us were probably thinking, quietly.

By: Personism»Blog Archive » List of Women Speakers for Your Conference

Personism»Blog Archive » List of Women Speakers for Your Conference — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:54:34 +0000

[...] Many thanks to all the contributors to comment threads here on Personism, and over on design*sponge. Marc and Sara over at Wooster Collective also provided some excellent suggestions. [...]

By: Personism»Blog Archive » The List, It’s Hot

Personism»Blog Archive » The List, It’s Hot — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:28:11 +0000

[...] Many thanks to all the contributors to comment threads here on Personism, and over on design*sponge. Marc and Sara over at Wooster Collective also provided some excellent suggestions. [...]

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:13:33 +0000

Kara Walker!!!
one of the best contemporaru artists out there, black, white, male or female.

By: plasticsodabag

plasticsodabag — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:38:54 +0000

this is late but these names need to be here:

Sylvia Kolbowski
Julia Loktev
Radhika Subramaniam +

I second Mary Flanagan

By: greg.org

greg.org — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:14:55 +0000

a good point, and one that tells me they’re marginal and out of touch.

I wish I were creative enough to make a funny t-shirt play on Tokion and token, though…

By: Jen Bekman

Jen Bekman — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:25:30 +0000

I don’t consider Tokion to be all that influential and their scene only slightly overlaps with my scene in that I’ve shown street art in the past.

The whole under-representation thing is an issue I’ve been gnashing my teeth over for a while, however, and they do make the claim that they’re putting on a conference of the top people in a variety of disciplines that I care deeply about.

Their response has been consistent with the responses that come from other sectors: We tried, it’s too hard, there aren’t enough people, tokenism is wrong, bla, bla, bla.

Whether it was intentional or not, Tokion felt comfortable making the claim that they are assembling the “top figures” in these fields with full knowledge that there was not one woman on the schedule.