Cynthia Mitchell, Equal Voice VP Public Affairs; Laverne Gaynor, Event Co-Chair; Betty Spence, Equal Voice President; and Daphne Pfaff, Event Co-Chair
Betty Castor (D) with former Florida State Senate Colleague Mary Ellen Hawkins (R)

Althea A. Harris, Public Affairs, Small Business Administration, came from Miami to speak at the EQUAL VOICE Forum.		Ellen Goetz, a prominent Naples entrepreneur, is former chair of the Conservancy of South Florida and founding board member, Southwest Florida Land Trust.

Speakers Betty Castor, Executive Director, Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions and former Florida Commissioner of Education; Betty Spence, Ph.D., President, EQUAL VOICE; Ellen Goetz, FASLA, partner Goetz + Stropes, Landscape Architects; and Penny Taylor, Vice Mayor, City of Naples.

Sabine Halboth and Ellen Goetz.		Entrepreneur and photographer Penny Taylor was elected Vice Mayor of the City of Naples in 2008.

Harriet Lancaster, President, Greater Naples Branch, American Association of University Women, partnered with EQUAL VOICE for the Forum.

Betty Castor speaks of her path from teacher in Uganda to Commissioner of Education for the state of Florida -- the first woman elected to the Florida cabinet.	Mana Holtz of the Community Foundation of Collier County spoke of the partnership of the group's Women's Initiative and EQUAL VOICE.

Kathleen Passidomo, Chair of the Collier County Bar Association, joined Equal Voice Advisory Board members Maureen Aughton, Esq., and Jan Brock, EVP, Academic Affairs, Hodges University.

Click here to view photos from the New York Forum

©2008 Equal Voice