FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2019 THE HOYA B3 MARY GLORIA JORDAN MELANNE MACAPAGAL- SENECA WOMEN MARY JORDAN/FACEBOOK GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO/FACEBOOK Mary Jordan (COL ’83) has spent 14 years abroad as a for- ARROYO eign correspondent and Washington Post co-bureau chief VERVEER Melanne Verveer (SLL ’66, GRD ’69) served as the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (SFS ’68) served as the 14th in Tokyo, Mexico City and London, reporting from more president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, the second than 40 countries. She has also interviewed some of the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, a position for which former President woman in the country’s history to get elected to the office. world’s most important people for the Academy of Achieve- Before this, she served as the 10th vice president of the ment’s “What it Takes.” Jordan won the Pulitzer Prize for Barack Obama nominated her. Verveer has spent her life fighting for women’s issues, working with Philippines from 1998 to 2001. Arroyo ran on a platform International Reporting in 2003 for her work covering that focused on the Philippine economy, and her presi- Mexico’s criminal justice system and received another the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and the special representative on gender is- dency witnessed higher economic growth than the three nomination for the prize in 2009. Jordan has also received presidencies that preceded hers. She has served as a mem- The Washington Post’s Eugene Meyer Award and has been sues for the OSCE chairmanship. In addition to her diplomatic work, Verveer co-founded Vital Voices ber of the House of Representatives for the 2nd District of recognized by organizations such as the Overseas Press Pampanga since 2010 and now also serves as the speaker Club of America and the Society of Professional Journalists. Global Partnership, a nonprofit focused on invest- ing in emerging female leaders around the globe. of the House of Representatives in the Philippines. CARMEN MARIA AIMEE TWILLIE TEDMED GIRL EFFECT TANYA ROSEN-JONES FOR OBERLIN EITEL MULLINS AMBAR Maria Eitel (GRD ’88) founded and currently serves Carmen Twillie Ambar (SFS ’90) is the 15th president as co-chair of the Nike Foundation, which works Aimee Mullins (SFS ’98), who was born without fibular of Oberlin College and the first black person to serve with communities to help alleviate poverty by in- bones and had her legs amputated as an infant, learned as president in the university’s 184-year history. creasing opportunities and investment. As co-chair, to walk and eventually run on prosthetics. Her athleti- Before her stint at Oberlin, she was president for nine she started the program Girl Effect, a partner of the cism took her to the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, and years at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pa. While United Nations Foundation and the NoVo Founda- she was the first double amputee to competed in NCAA at Cedar Crest, she helped grow the endowment tion that helps adolescent girls end the cycle of pov- Division I track and field. More recently, she became the by 92 percent and further diversified the school’s erty. Although she began her career as a television official ambassador for the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film student body. Her career in higher education started reporter and producer, she has held a wide range Festival in 2008 and was elected to represent all U.S. at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Inter- of board and advisory positions, including on the female athletes from 2007 to 2009 as president of the national Affairs at Princeton University, where she Safeco Corporation, the Stanford Graduate School Women’s Sports Foundation. worked as the assistant dean of graduate education. of Business and the Eastern Congo Initiative. MARGARET WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ANTONIA EDSON NOVELLO GOODMAN THEATRE HELEN CHANGING THE FACE OF MEDICINE Antonia Novello, who completed her residency at Margaret Edson (GRD ’92) is most known for her Georgetown University Hospital, was the first Hispanic play “Wit,” which traces the last hours of its pro- woman to serve as U.S. surgeon general. Her appoint- tagonist, a brilliant and uncompromising professor STEINBINDER Helen Steinbinder (LAW ’55, GRD ’56) was not only part ment came after nearly two decades of public service of literature who is dying of ovarian cancer. While of the first female class at the Georgetown University at the National Institutes of Health, where she helped growing up in Washington, D.C., Edson worked Law Center to receive a Juris Doctor degree but also one draft legislation regarding organ transplants. As in the AIDS and cancer treatment wing of a local of the first women to receive a Master of Law in 1956. surgeon general, she highlighted health issues that face research hospital. This play went on to win the She went on to become the first female law professor women, young people and minorities. After her tenure Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999, and a film adapta- at Georgetown and acted as the faculty adviser for the as surgeon general, Novello was appointed to be a tion of the play won the Primetime Emmy Award flagship law review journal of the Law Center. In 1988, special representative to the United Nations Children’s for Outstanding Television Movie in 2001. Steinbinder retired and became the first female profes- Fund from 1993 to 1996, where she raised awareness of sor emerita at Georgetown University. the nutritional needs of women and children. RESEARCH BY: DENNESE MAE JAVIER/THE HOYA, DESIGN BY: ELOISE OWEN/THE HOYA.