By Lee Riddell
Institute for Community College Development
Spring 2008

Would you like to have the ability to lead from a position of power?

The fourth annual Leadership Tools for Women, scheduled for June 6, will help women leaders enhance their influence on campus and in public life. In this groundbreaking election year, join us to discuss women’s leadership, media attitudes and the image of women, and strategies to groom women for leadership positions. A panel of women politicians will offer specific and practical solutions to getting more women into the electoral process.

Registration is open for the event, sponsored by the Institute for Community College Development. The program will be held at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York. Workshops will include:

• Giving Circles: Becoming a Prominent Way to Help Others
• Resilience and Resistance: A Panel of Community College Presidents
• Rights of Passage: Practical Solutions for Getting Women into Politics
• Who Will Fill Your Shoes: Creating the Next Generation of Women Leaders

Teena Cahill (pictured at left), a nationally acclaimed speaker, writer and educator, will give the keynote address on "Women Taking the Lead: Wisdom for Everyday leadership and Peak Performance." The author of The Cahill Factor: Turning Adversity into Advantage (SterlingHouse Books, 2007), Cahill pens a popular weekly newspaper column, "Life in the Nineties," and has written about women's issues for numerous magazines.

In addition, the author Amy Hill Hearth will speak during lunch about "Strong Medicine" Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say (Atria, 2008), her book that tells the story of a Native American matriarch who was born and raised on Native ancestral land in New Jersey. Hearth was a coauthor with the late Sadie and Bessie Delany of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (Dell Publishing, 1993), an oral history that is considered a classic of the genre.

To register or to learn more, visit "Leadership Tools for Women" or contact ICCD@cornell.edu.

Lee Riddell is the assistant director of ICCD.