From the Back Cover The Leaders Featured in Talking Leadership: Peggy Antrobus - prize-winning economist and founding director of the Women and Development Unit at the University of West Indies. Susan Berresford - first woman president of the Ford Foundation. Mildred Dresselhaus - first tenured woman faculty member in the engineering school， Massachusetts Institute of Technology， and National Medal of Science winner. Antonia Hernandez - president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Bell Hooks - author of numerous books， including Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery and Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Lois Juliber - executive vice president and chief of operations， developed markets， at Colgate-Palmolive Company. Karen Nussbaum - director， Working Women's Department， the first women's unit with the AFL-CIO. Jacqueline Pitanguy - former president of Brazil's National Council for Women's Right. Anna Quindlen - Pulitzer prize-winning journalist， bestselling author and social critic. Nafis Sadik - executive director， United Nations Population Fund. Patricia Schroeder - twenty-four-year Democratic veteran in the US Congress and C.E.O， Association of American Publishers. Ruth Simmons - first African American and third woman president of Smith College. Christine Todd Whitman - first woman governor of New Jersey.