JEAN KILBOURNE

www.jeankilbourne.com

Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and for her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. In the late 1960s she began her exploration of the connection between advertising and several public health issues, including , eating disorders, and addiction, and launched a movement to promote media literacy as a way to prevent these problems. A radical and original idea at the time, this approach is now mainstream and an integral part of most prevention programs. According to Susan Faludi, “Jean Kilbourne’s work is pioneering and crucial to the dialogue of one of the most underexplored, yet most powerful, realms of American culture -advertising. We owe her a great debt.” Mary Pipher has called Kilbourne “our best, most compassionate teacher.” Her films, lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. Kilbourne was once named by Magazine as one of the three most popular speakers on college campuses. She is the creator of the renowned Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women film series and the author of the award-winning book Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids. In 2015 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. professional appointments Wellesley Centers for Women, Senior Scholar, 2008–present (Visiting Research Scholar, 1984–2008) NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association), Ambassador, 2011–present National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), National Honorary Board, 2003–present ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education), Advisory Board, 2002–present GENAustin (Austin, Texas), Honorary Board, 2005–present Jamie-Lynn Sigler Foundation, Board of Advisors, 2006–present Media Education Foundation, Advisory Board, 1993–present The Mothers’ Council, 2001–present National Sexual Violence Resource Center, National Honorary Board, 2000–present Teen Talking Circles, National Advisory Board, 2008–present (Board of Directors, 1999–2008) True Child (www.truechild.org), TrueChild Expert, 2009–present WAND (Women’s Action for New Directions), Advisory Board, 1995–present DADs (Dads & Daughters), Board of Directors, 2003–2006 Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence (Massachusetts) 2003–2006 The Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, Board of Directors, 1995–2001 National Association for Public Health Policy, Chair, Council on Alcohol Policy, 1988 National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Board of Directors, 1985–2000 U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, National Advisory Council on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, 1993–1996 Women in Public Service Project Institute, , 2012 Continued Jean Kilbourne, page 2 honors and awards Marketing Misery: Selling Addictions to Women National Women’s Hall of Fame, 2015 You’ve Come the Wrong Way, Baby: Women & Smoking Wellesley College, Alumnae Achievement Award, 2015 Under the Influence: The Pushing of Alcohol via American Humanist Association, Humanist Heroine Advertising Award, 2015 The Naked Truth: Advertising’s Image of Women Common Sense Media, Common Sense Media Award, 2012 films and videos The LAMP, Amplifier Award, 2012 Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women (2010) The New Agenda, Pioneer Mentor, 2011 Deadly Persuasion: Advertising & Addiction (2004) NOW (National Organization for Women), Wonder Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies, & Alcohol (2004) Woman Award, 2010 Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women (2000) NEDA, Profiles in Living Award, 2010 The End of Education (with Neil Postman, 1996) School of Education, Ida M. Johnston Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness Alumni Award, 2009 (1995) Reclaim the Media, 2008 Sexual Harassment: Building Awareness on Campus Womanspace, Barbara Boggs Sigmund Award, 2008 (1995) MEDA, 2007 The Killing Screens: Media and the Culture of Violence Miss Hall’s School, Woman of Distinction Award, 2007 (with George Gerbner, hosted by Jean Kilbourne) ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education), Media (1994) Activist National Award, 2006 Pack of Lies: The Advertising of Tobacco (1992) Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975, Profiled in the Advertising Alcohol: Calling the Shots (2nd Edition) book, 2006 (1991) (Red Ribbon, American Film and Video Germaine Lawrence, Inc., Woman of Excellence Award, Festival) 2005 Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women Myra Sadker Equity Award, 2005 (1987) (National Council on Family Relations Film Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, 2005 Festival, First Place; National Educational Film and Kansas City, Kansas, Keys to the City, 2004 Video Festival, Winner; Chicagoland Educational Westfield State College, Honorary Doctorate, 2004 Film Festival, First Prize, Consumer Education) NSVRC (National Sexual Violence Resource Center), 2003 Calling the Shots: Advertising Alcohol (1982) Academy for Eating Disorders, Special Recognition Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women (1979) Award, 2002 (North American Consumer Film Festival, Winner) Association for Women in Psychology, Distinguished Publication Award, 2000 speaking engagements National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, (partial listing) Marty Mann’s Founder’s Award, 1998 Over 2000 lectures, workshops and seminars AFTRA (American Federation of Television & Radio Lectures on over 1000 college campuses, including Artists), WIN (Women’s Image Now) Award, 1995 Harvard University, Stanford University, the Women’s Action Alliance, Leadership in Action Award, University of Cape Town, the University of 1995 California, the University of Michigan, Duke Non-Smokers’ Rights Association, Award of Merit, 1993 University, Queen’s University, the University of STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco) Western Ontario, Wesleyan University, the California Entertainment Industries Council, Special Institute of Technology, and MIT Commendation, 1990 Lectures at hundreds of schools, including Groton National Association of Campus Activities, Lecturer of School, Hotchkiss School, St. Paul’s School, the San the Year Award, 1988 and 1989 Diego City Schools, the International Boys’ Schools National Organization for Women (Boston Chapter), Coalition, Milton Academy, Concord Academy, the Woman of the Year, 1982 Calgary City Teachers’ Convention, the Headmasters’ Educational Foundation of America, 1980 Association, and the American School in London Alcoholism and addiction conferences, including the presentations (partial listing) Governor’s Alliance Against Drugs Conference So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood (in Massachusetts, Idaho, and Alabama), the U.N. Deadly Persuasion: Advertising & Addiction International Conference for the Prevention of Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness Alcoholism (in Rio de Janeiro and Nice), the Betty Pack of Lies: The Advertising of Tobacco Ford Center, and the SADD National Conference Continued Jean Kilbourne, page 3

Corporations, business organizations and schools, publications (partial listing) including America’s Community Bankers, the So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Rhode Island Ad Club, the Albany Ad Club, the Art Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids (co-authored with Directors Club of Boston, AFTRA, Harvard Business Diane E. Levin) (NY: Ballantine, 2008) School, Wharton, the National Association of Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Advertising Publishers, AT&T, and Bell Laboratories Think and Feel (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Originally Community groups, including the , published as Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Camp Fire USA, and many local parent and Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising, 1999. community groups “The More You Subtract, the More You Add: Cutting Government agencies and organizations, including the Girls Down to Size,” from Can’t Buy My Love, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, reprinted in many books and textbooks, including: the Georgia Department of Corrections, the Center The Aims of Argument: A Text Reader, 6th Edition, for Substance Abuse Prevention, and the U.S. edited by Timothy W. Crusius and Carolyn E. Department of Education. Keynote speaker for an All Channel (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008) Court Conference on gender bias for all of the judges Women’s Lives, 4th Edition, edited by Gwyn Kirk and in Massachusetts. Presented at an assembly of the Margo Okazawa-Rey (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2006) Parliament in London. Seeking Common Cause, 1st Edition, edited by Diane Health organizations and institutions, including the Durkin and Lisa Gerrard (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2006) American Academy of Pediatrics, Massachusetts Psychology and Consumer Culture, edited by Tim General Hospital (Psychiatric Grand Rounds), the Kasser and Allen D. Kanner (Washington, DC: Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union, Harvard Medical School, American Psychological Association, 2004) Harvard School of Public Health, the National Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Association of Social Workers, the American College Audience, Content, and Producers, edited by Rebecca Health Association Ann Lind (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2003) Women’s organizations, including the National Kaleidoscope of Gender, edited by Joan Spade (Belmont, Organization for Women, the Association for CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003) Women in Psychology, the American Medical Gender, Race and Class in Media, 2nd Edition, edited by Women’s Association, the National Council Gail Dines and Jean Humez, (Thousand Oaks, CA: of Jewish Women, the National Federation of Sage Publications, 2002) Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, the “You Talkin’ to Me? Advertising and Disconnection,” Colorado Women’s Bar Association, and many from Can’t Buy My Love, reprinted in Race, Class, and Junior Leagues nationwide Gender, 6th Edition, edited by Margaret L. Andersen Appearances on numerous television and radio and Patricia Hill Collins (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/ programs, including The Show, On Thomson Learning, 2006) the Record with Bob Costas, Nick News (special on “Can an Engine Pump the Valves in Your Heart? Crazy tobacco and children with Linda Ellerbee and for Cars,” from Can’t Buy My Love, reprinted in The President Clinton), The Today Show, 20/20, All Things Bedford Reader, 8th Edition, edited by X. J. Kennedy, Considered, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and 48 Hours. Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron (NY: Consulted by ABC, CBS , NBC News, CNN, and Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003) Nightline. Featured on “MAKERS: Women Who Make “Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely America” (PBS, 2013) Free: We are the Product,” from Can’t Buy My Love, Interviewed by many publications, including Time, reprinted in: , Business Week, Forbes, Family Circle, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and The Reader’s World, edited by John Kindler (NY: Mail, The Toronto Star, The Washington Post, and The McGraw Hill, 2010) Christian Science Monitor Reading from the Inside Out, edited by Deborah Silvey Consulted by Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman, 2002) Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader, 4th Testified for Congress on alcohol advertising, 1986 and Edition, edited by Gary Goshgarian (Reading, MA: 1990 Addison Wesley Longman, 2002) Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings, 6th Edition, edited by Sylvan Barnet and Hugo Bedau (NY: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001)

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“Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising “‘Gender Bender’ Ads: Same Old Sexism,” (NY: Harcourt and Violence,” from Can’t Buy My Love, reprinted Brace, 2001) The New York Times, May 15, 1994, p. F13 in Rereading America, 5th Edition, edited by Gary “Gender Roles in Advertising,” Adolescent Medicine: State Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle (NY: of the Art Reviews, edited by Victor Strasburger, M.D. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001) and George Comstock, Ph.D., Issue #12, Philadelphia Excerpts from Can’t Buy My Love, reprinted in Readings (PA: Hanley & Belfus, Inc., Medical Publishers, for the Dream Weaver: One Boy’s Journey Through October, 1993) the Landscape of Reality, edited by Jack Bowen (NY: “Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness,” in Pearson Longman, 2007) Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders, edited by Pat “What Else Does Sex Sell?” International Journal of Fallon, Melanie Katzman, and Susan Wooley (NY: Advertising, vol. 24, no. 1, 2005, pp. 119–122. Guilford Publications, 1993) “Targets of Alcohol Advertising” in At Issue: Does “The Spirit of the Czar: Selling Addictions to Women,” in Advertising Promote Substance Abuse? (Farmington Alcohol and Drugs are Women’s Issues, edited by Paula Hills, MI: Gale, 2005) Roth, Metuchen, (NJ: Women’s Action Alliance/ “Gender Bender Ads: Same Old Sexism,” New York Times Scarecrow Press, 1991) editorial reprinted in Reading Writing: Argument with “Brewers Should Stop Targeting Youth,” (editorial) USA Rhetorical Terms and Concepts, edited by George Trail Today, March 8, 1991 (NY: Harcourt Brace, 2001) “Who Needs Equal Rights?” (editorial) JAMWA (Journal “Falling in Love with Food” in Healthy Weight Journal, of the American Medical Women’s Association), Vol. 44, November/December 2000 No. 2 ”Beauty and the Beast of Advertising,” in Perspectives on “The Ugly Truth,” (review), The Women’s Review of Books, Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines June 1987 (NY: Harcourt Brace, 2000) “The Child as Sex Object: Images of Children in the “Media Education and Public Health,” Telemedium, The Journal Media,” in The Educator’s Guide to Preventing Child of Media Literacy, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 3–4 Sexual Abuse, edited by Mary Nelson and Kay Clark, “Suzanna Ribeiro Talks With Jean Kilbourne,” in Santa Cruz (CA: Network Publications, 1986) Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women “Sex Roles in Advertising,” in TV and Teens: Experts Look and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood, K. Wind at the Issues, edited by Meg Schwarz, Reading (MA: Hughes and Linda Wolf (Stony Creek, CT: New Addison-Wesley, 1982) Society Publishers, 1997) “Images of Women in TV Commercials,” in TV Book, “Jean Kilbourne” in Women in Communications, edited by edited by Judy Fireman (NY: Workman Publishing Nancy Signorielli, Westport (CT: Greenwood Press, Co., 1977) 1996) “Targeting Women” in Consumer Health: A Guide to education Intelligent Decisions, edited by Stephen Barrett, M.D., Ed.D. from Boston University (Humanistic and Mosby Year Book, 1996. Behavioral Studies) “Killing Us Softly: Gender Roles in Advertising” in The M.Ed. from Boston University (Secondary Education) University in Your Life, edited by Jeffrey Gordon B.A. in English Literature from Wellesley College (Guilford, CT: Brown & Benchmark, 1996) “Deadly Persuasion,” in Impact of Mass Media, edited by Ray Eldon Hiebert (NY: Longman Publishers, 1995)