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National Leaders Advancing Race Issues Headline
5th National BCW Diversity Forum, Can We Talk?™
September 16 & 17, 2004, Cincinnati, OH.
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CINCINNATI – (August 1, 2004) – A dynamic array of nationally known speakers will headline the Fifth BCW National Diversity Forum CAN WE TALK?™ focused on Race and improving workplace cross-cultural communication between women; held September 16-17, 2004 at the Cincinnati Hyatt Regency Hotel. Valerie Red-Horse, founder/principal - Red-Horse Holding Corp.; Susan E. Arnold, Vice Chair of Global Personal Beauty Care and Global Feminine Care for Procter & Gamble, Inc.; Valerie A. Batts, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Executive Director of VISIONS in Cambridge, MA; Graciela Eleta De Cacho, Vice President for Procter & Gamble’s Multicultural Development Organization in North America; Janet E. Helms, director of The Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at Boston College; Margaret Buchanan, President & Publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Sandra Yancey, Founder & CEO of eWomen Network; Angela E. Oh, J.D., Attorney, teacher and public lecturer; Kesho Y. Scott; Chair of the Board of Directors - FRE’ Foundation,; Jane E. Smith, CEO of BPW/USA & BPW Foundation, Jane Reid, Principal Partner & co-founder of Global Lead Management Consulting - will bring authenticity to important, dialogue and problem-solving to issues of women and race.

Ms. Red-Horse is the founder and principle shareholder of Red-Horse Holding Corp., the only Female Native American owned Investment Bank in existence, and currently serves as Chair. Ms. Red-Horse began her securities industry career in the securities industry in 1978 in the Investment Banking and High Yield Bond department of Drexel Burnham Lambert. In 1998, she formed Native Nations Securities, the first Native American owned investment bank on Wall Street. That entity today has evolved into Red-Horse Holding Corp., which includes subsidiaries, Red-Horse Asset Management (“RHAM”) and Red-Horse Securities LLC (“RHS”) member NASD, SIPC, and MSRB.

Attorney Angela Oh, national speaker & lecturer on anti-discrimination. Attorney Oh teaches Race and American Law and Leadership for the 21st Century at Univ. of California at Irvine and was an appointee to former President Clinton's National Initiative On Race. She most recently served as Keynote Speaker at Working Mother Magazine's Women of Color Conference in New York.


Dr. Janet Helms, Professor, Counseling Development and Educational Psychology, Boston College, where she is also Director of the Race-Culture Institute. Dr. Helms has authored several books including: "A Race Is A Nice Thing To Have: A Guide To Being A White Person or Understanding the White Person In your Life," "Training Manual for Diagnosing Racial Identity in Social Interactions." She also authored nine chapters of "Black and White Racial identity." Dr. Helms has served on the faculty and as a psychologist at Southern Illinois and Iowa State Universities and at the University of Maryland. Dr. Helms' long and distinguished career as an educator, psychologist, workshop facilitator and presenter on topics related to race and is the recipient of numerous awards for her contributions to racial-cultural psychology. The Columbia University Teacher's College bestows the Janet E Helms Award for Scholarship and Research Mentoring to deserving recipients in her honor.

Dr. Jane Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Business & Professional Women USA, Washington, DC will serve as a Moderator for an Executive Panel on The Impact of Race & Gender on Women At The Top.

Ms. Sandra Yancey is the Founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork, Inc., which is recognized as the world's #1 resource for connecting and promoting women and their business worldwide. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, eWomenNetwork is the fastest growing membership-based professional women's networking organization in North America. With their exclusive trademarked brand of Accelerated Networking events occurring through North America, eWomenNetwork has pioneered a whole new way for women to build relationships and transact business.

Dr. Janet B. Reid, Principal Partner & co-founder of Global Lead Management Consulting, a full-service, management consulting firm with a portfolio of Fortune 500 and multinational corporate clients. Her many accomplishments include being the first woman and first person of color to be chair of the board of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce in over 160 years of its existence. Dr. Reid is a proven leader in developing and implementing successful leadership, diversity and inclusion, marketing and strategic change initiatives in major corporations in the US and countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Online registration is available for CAN WE TALK?™ 2004 and is available at www.bcw.org. Registration fees are: Advance Registration (Prior to 8/16/04) is $250 per person and $300 after 8/16/04; BCW member registration is $200 per person; and one-day registration is $150. Other options including luncheon only and corporate team registrations are available on the BCW website. Click here to register today.

The focus of CAN WE TALK?™ 2004 will be on Race. The CAN WE TALK?™ 2004 planners believe that race and reactions to race are defining authentic experiences in today's workplace and that diversity forums must facilitate this "difficult dialogue" if we are to make meaningful, substantive and sustainable inroads in organizations, for the career advancement of all women. A national group of experienced, diversity champions in corporations, are being sought to assist in facilitating the CAN WE TALK?™ Break out sessions. For more information about the conference, speakers or registration, please email CAN WE TALK?™ at cwt@bcw.org.

Lead/major sponsors: The Procter & Gamble Company, Toyota Manufacturing, Fifth Third Bank, Wal-Mart, xpedx, American Family Mutual Insurance and Mercy Health Partners; Oxygen Media is a National Media Sponsor. Register online www.bcw.org.

For information on media/corporate sponsorships, please go to sponsor section of website or call BCW at 513-531-1932.

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