Keynote Speakers PBWC Conference 2002 – May 29, 2002, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

Opening Keynote Speakers
Brandi Chastain Brandi Chastain provided one of the greatest moments in women's sports history in 1999 with her Women's World Cup clinching penalty kick in the global competition championship soccer game. In 2000, she was a member of the U.S. Olympic team that gained a silver medal at the summer games in Australia. Ms. Chastain made her first appearance with the U.S. National Team in 1986, and was a member of the World Cup Championship squad in 1991. That year, she scored five consecutive goals versus Mexico, still a team record. Currently, she is an Assistant Coach for the University of Santa Clara women’s soccer team. Ms. Chastain is a founding player of the WUSA Champion San Jose CyberRays professional soccer team.
Susan M. Love Susan M. Love, M.D., M.B.A. is an author, teacher, surgeon and researcher. An Adjunct Professor of Surgery at UCLA and the Medical Director of the Susan Love M.D. Breast Cancer Foundation, she is also one of the founders and a board member of the National Breast Cancer Coalition. Dr. Love lectures nationally and internationally on breast cancer, menopause, and women's health, has been awarded six honorary doctorate degrees, and is the author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book and Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book.
Luncheon Keynote Speakers
Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis is currently appearing at A.C.T. in Michel Tremblay's For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. She has appeared in more than 200 productions on and off Broadway and in regional theaters throughout the United States. Her many film credits include Moonstruck, for which she earned an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, Mr. Holland's Opus, Steel Magnolias, and Dad. Films recently released include Strange Relations and The Last of the Blonde Bombshells. Films to be released are The Event and The Intended, directed by Kristan Levring. Television credits include Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Lucky Day, Sinatra, The Last Act Is a Solo (ACE Award), and Young at Heart. As a founding member and producing artistic director of the Whole Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey (1971-90), Dukakis received the Governor's Walt Whitman Creative Arts Award. She is a founding member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
PBWC Breakthrough Award Recipient - Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was elected by her colleagues on October 10, 2001, to become House Democratic Whip, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Congress. In this capacity, she is a national spokesperson for the party and is responsible for the party's legislative strategy in the House and for keeping members informed about upcoming issues and votes. Congresswoman Pelosi has represented California's 8th Congressional District, which includes most of the City of San Francisco, since 1987. A Democrat with deep political roots, she has focused primarily on the issues of education, health care, housing, and environmental protection. The PBWC Breakthrough Award is designed to recognize outstanding women who have not only made a significant career breakthrough in their professional lives, but have made an extraordinary contribution to the advancement of women in the workplace.
Closing Keynote Speaker
Bertice Berry Bertice Berry, Ph.D. is a leading inspirational speaker also known as the "smart with a heart" talk show host. The best-selling author of the memoir, I'm On My Way, But Your Foot is on My Head, as well as Sckraight From the Ghetto, her first work of fiction, Redemption Song, published in 2000, is now in its sixth printing and was praised by USA Today as "fun and entertaining but also enlightening." Dr. Berry graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville University, where she was awarded the President's Cup for leadership, and earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Kent State University.
Hosts for Keynote Speakers
Kristen Sze is weekday co-anchor for the ABC-7 Midday News and a general assignment reporter for the station's newscasts at 5 and 6 p.m. She previously anchored the station's weekday morning show, weekend newscasts and the ABC-7 Sunday morning news. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Ms. Sze won a 1999 Emmy Award.

Rosie Lee Allen began her career with KGO Newstalk AM 810 in 1983, and in 1984 began a 16-year stint as co-anchor of the KGO Afternoon News. The recipient of numerous industry awards, she received the American Women in Radio and Television's Kudo Award as "Best News Anchor" in June 2000.
Thuy Vu joined ABC-7 News in 2000 as co-anchor of the station's Sunday Morning News as well as a reporter based in the South Bay Bureau. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, last year she received an award from the American Women in Radio and Television as "Best Reporter" in the Bay Area.