Advisory Council
The Advisory Council is an external body that advises the Institute on its long-term direction. The Council also acts as an advocate for the Institute and assists with development strategies.
Michelle R. Clayman, Chair
Michelle is the founder and managing partner of New Amsterdam Partners, an institutional money management firm in New York. She received an undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford and an M.B.A. from Stanford. Michelle is a member of the director's council for the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School and a board director of Children of Bellevue.
Read Londa Schiebinger's recent interview with Ms. Clayman about her career and thoughts on women in business.
Janifer M. Burns
Janifer earned an undergraduate degree and an A.M. in anthropology from Stanford, as well as an A.M. in Latin American studies and M.B.A. from Penn. She is the managing director of Banco Bilbao in New York where her duties include coordinating relationships between the bank and investors in South America.
Margaret Earl Cooper
Margaret received an A.B. in English from Stanford. A resident of Connecticut and now retired, she spent her career as a press relations officer working in the private sector and in several White House administrations.
Vicki B. Cox
Vicki has served on the boards of the U.S. Committee for the United Population Fund and WATCH. She remains active with Emily's List and Planned Parenthood. A graduate of Stanford and Harvard, Vicki has taught high school English in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Minneapolis.
Elizabeth Garfield
Beth received a B.A. from Stanford and law degree from the University of Michigan. While at Stanford, she was president of the Associated Students of Stanford and helped to found the Center for Research on Women, now the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is a founding partner of Holguin & Garfield, a law firm in Los Angeles. Beth has served as an elected member of the Los Angeles Community College Board.
Martha Clark Goss
Martha has 30 years' experience in risk management, investment management, as well as financial management and analysis. She now consults in these areas for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Martha has served as chief financial officer of The Capital Markets Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton. Martha is a graduate of Brown University, where she is also a former trustee, and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard.
Nicholas M. Graves
Nick received an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from Stanford. Before joining Osterweis Capital Management in San Francisco, Nick was president of Prudential Private Placement Group. He serves on the boards of the Crescent Porter Hale Foundation and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Donna P. Hall
Donna is executive director of Women Donors Network. She has an undergraduate degree from Stanford, a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Stanford. Donna is a former program manager for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and former associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation. She has served on the boards of Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention.
Lorraine Hariton
Lorraine has spent 25 years in the technology sector, including serving as president and CEO of both Apptera and Beatnik.com. She serves on the boards of several Silicon Valley organizations, including the Entrepreneurs Foundation and Forum for Women Entrepreneurs. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and a B.S. in mathematics from Stanford.
Susan Heck
Susan is a first vice president of investments at Morgan Stanley. She received a B.A. from Smith College, an M.A. from Rutgers, and a Ph.D. from Stanford. Susan helped to found the Center for Research on Women, now the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
Leslie Hume
An undergraduate alumna of Radcliffe College, Leslie received an A.M. and a Ph.D. from Stanford. A recognized community leader in San Francisco, Leslie is a trustee and the board chair of the San Francisco Foundation and a member of the board of Breakthrough Collaborative. At Stanford, her numerous roles include serving as a member of the board of trustees, parents advisory board, and Humanities and Sciences Council. Hume was appointed chair of the University's Board of Trustees with effect from July 2008. She is the second woman to hold this position. (The first was Jane Stanford in 1903.)
Jing Lyman
Jing's work has focused on community economic development through micro-enterprise and self-employment. She has been active in the American Leadership Forum. Her husband Richard is a Stanford President Emeritus.
Page Mailliard
Page earned an A.B. in English from Stanford and a J.D. from Harvard. She is a partner
in the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, specializing in corporate,
securities, and venture capital law.
Sharon Meers
Sharon Meers was a managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where she worked for 16 years, based in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2005, she has been writing a book about women and work. Sharon graduated from Harvard College Magna Cum Laude in 1989. She earned a master's degree in economics from New York University in 1991 while working at Goldman. Sharon serves on the board of The National Women's Law Center and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lisa Daniel Nesbitt
Lisa received an A.B. from Stanford and M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a retired banker and management consultant. Lisa is a past president of the Stanford Professional Women of Los Angeles. She is now focused on philanthropic travel opportunities and is involved in local charities including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Robinson Gardens.
Robert Nimmo
Rob received an A.B. in Political Science from Stanford in 1968. Now semi-retired and living in Portland, Oregon, he previously held senior-level positions at Citicorp in New York, Westpac Banking Corporation in Sydney, Australia, Wachovia Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Barclays in England. Rob is a co-author (with John B. Caouette, Edward I. Altman, and Paul Narayanan) of Managing Credit Risk: The Great Challenge for Global Financial Markets (Wiley Finance, 2008).
Marjorie Randolph
Marjorie serves as senior vice president for human resources and administration for Disney Studios. Prior to this, she held the post of senior vice president and general counsel for Mervyns. Marjorie received a B.A. from Purdue and a J.D. from Golden Gate University. She is a former board member of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and is a past president of California Women Lawyers.
Janice L. Warne
Janice earned an undergraduate degree in applied earth sciences and an M.B.A. from Stanford. A former Solomon Brothers executive, she is the managing director of Citigroup Global Markets in New York and has served as the national board chair for the nonprofit organization Girls, Inc.
Kamy Wicoff
Kamy is an author and freelance writer whose first book, I Do But I Don't: Why the Way We Marry Matters, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller in hardback, and recently (May 2007) came out in paperback. With Diane Middlebrook, she founded a salon of women writers in London and recently developed a similar program with Nancy Miller in New York. Kamy is a former television journalist writing for The Learning Channel and Discovery Channel. She is a graduate of Stanford and Columbia.
Londa Schiebinger
John L Hinds Professor of the History of Science, Londa is the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her publications include The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science; the prize-winning Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science; and Has Feminism Changed Science? A former Fulbright scholar, Londa is the recipient of the Humboldt Research Prize in Berlin and fellowships from the Sloan and Guggenheim Foundations. She has served as a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin. She obtained her Ph.D. from Harvard and completed post-doctoral work at Stanford.