Women and Leadership (1706)

Initial Air Dates:
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Another View visits the campus at Rutgers University to spend a day in the life of two engaging and talented African-American women in highly recognized posts. Carmen Twillie-Ambar and Stephanie Bush Baskette have been on a lifetime mission to serve the community's needs. Ambar is the youngest African-American woman to serve as Dean of Douglass College, the largest women's undergraduate college in the country. She has always had a passion for women's rights and issues. Ambar gives insight about the need for Douglass College, the national need for women's leadership and explains the impact of growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Stephanie Bush-Baskette shares her mission as the new Director of the Rutgers University Joseph Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies in Newark, NJ. The center is in the midst of researching ways to fuse academics with urban policy. Baskette explains her new post and how the center's research will be implemented to help revitalize urban neighborhoods. Baskette also shares how New Jersey's inner cities have changed over the years.

The program will also feature the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Chapter Presidents Beverly Wellons and President Rita Williams-Bogar will discuss what the organization is doing to develop socially conscious women and how the group is preparing others to become community leaders.

Major funding for Another View is provided by
Schering-Plough