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A large group of leaders from fields including media, fashion, politics, and finance attended the New York City kickoff of “Uncommon Women,” a new speaker series.
The series will focus on key societal issues and is produced by ELLE magazine in conjunction with Mount Holyoke College and Wendy Wasserstein ’71, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright. Held on Tuesday, February 17, at Le Bernadin restaurant in New York City, the event featured a panel discussion on “Media, the Elections, and the Future of Politics.” Participants in the program included, from left to right, Carol Darr, director, The Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet at George Washington University; Mount Holyoke President Joanne V. Creighton; Roberta Myers, editor-in-chief, ELLE; Carol Smith, senior vice president, ELLE; Wendy Wasserstein; Claire Shipman, senior national correspondent, Good Morning America; and Judy Woodruff, anchor and senior correspondent, CNN. About half the attendees were Mount Holyoke alumnae.