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The National Education for Women's Leadership™ Oregon (NLO) at Portland State University has chosen a new board of advisors (listed below). The NLO program is designed to educate, empower and encourage college women to become politically active and assume leadership roles on their campuses and in their communities. NLO, as part of its mission, hosts an intensive, six-day residential leadership training program specifically designed to introduce Oregon's college women to opportunities for public leadership.

NEW Leadership™ Oregon is now accepting applications for the 2006 summer program. By participating in the NLO program, college women find out why and how to get involved in politics through interaction with Oregon's past and present women office holders, candidates, policy specialists and activists. Hands-on skills-building workshops will teach women to lead by taking action. For more information please visit www.newleadershiporegon.org/index.html.

National Education for Women’s™ Leadership
NEW (National Education for Women's) Leadership™ Oregon is a nationally recognized program to find, mentor and train future women leaders. The program is patterned after a project created at the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1991 and has extended to schools in fifteen states nation-wide. The Oregon chapter was formed in 2003 and is affiliated with the Hatfield School of Government.

Mark O. Hatfield School of Government
The Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, named in honor of Oregon's highly respected former senator, is a dynamic, fast-growing public affairs institution. Students and faculty are active participants in the life of the surrounding city, local and regional politics, and international institutions.

NEW Leadership™ Oregon
Dr. Melody Rose, Director

Board of Advisors
Terms Ending July 2006
Hon. Barbara Roberts
Former Oregon Governor
Chair of the Advisory Board

Goli Ameri
US Rep. to the 60th Session of the UN General Assembly & Public Delegate to the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights

Julia Brim-Edwards
Nike, Inc.

Mary Fetsch
Tri-Met

Hon. Elizabeth Furse
Institute for Tribal Government, Hatfield School of Government, PSU
Former Oregon Congresswoman

Sue Hildick
The Chalkboard Project and Foundations for a Better Oregon

Hon. Gretchen Kafoury
Hatfield School of Government, PSU
Former Portland City Commissioner

Hon. Gail R. Shibley
Oregon Dept. of Health/Office of Public Health Systems
Former Oregon State Representative

Hon. Carolyn Tomei
Oregon State Representative

Bee Jai Repp, Ph.D.
Salem Center - Extended Studies, PSU

Chiquita Rollins, Ph.D.
Multnomah County Domestic Violence

Terms Ending July 2007
Lois Bronfman, Ph.D.
Hatfield School of Government, PSU

Jessica Mindlin, Esq.
National Crime Victim Law Institute, Lewis and Clark Law School

Lillian Tsai
President, TsaiComms

Laura Stanfill
Writer

Terms Ending July 2008
Hon. Serena Cruz Walsh
Multnomah County Commissioner

Margo Fowkes
President, OnTarget Consulting

Tina Gentzkow
Activist and PSU Alumna

Julie Harrelson
Ruby Communications

Trish Hamilton
Director of Development and External Relations, College of Urban and Public Affairs, PSU
Ex Officio Member of the Board

Carol Robinson
Oregon Business Association

Roslyn Elms Sutherland, Ph.D.
Vice Provost and Professor Emeritus, OHSU

Rebecca Uherbelau
Activist and PSU Alumna

Jennifer Williamson
Government Relations, PSU

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For Immediate Release (#06-015)

Source: Melody Rose, Ph.D. (503-725-3137)
Director, NEW Leadership™ Oregon