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2018 CSW Awards and Benefits Luncheon

May 31, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

2018 CSW AWARDS AND BENEFIT LUNCHEON

Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honorees!

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 

40 Years in Corporate Culture: A Successful Woman’s Strategies for Surviving and Thriving

by PAULA WILLIAMS MADISON

2018 CSW Distinguished Leader in Feminism Honoree

Chairman and CEO, Madison Media Management, LLC

Former CEO, Los Angeles Sparks

Former Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, NBCUniversal

DATE: Thursday, May 31, 2018

TIME: 12:00 – 2:30 PM

LOCATION: UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Optimist Room

TICKETS: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/110401/rsvp-2018-csw-awards-and-benefit-luncheon-ft-paula-williams-madison-may-31 

Tickets are $30 and non-refundable. Deadline to purchase tickets: Friday, May 18, 2018

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Paula Williams Madison is a longtime advocate for increased diversity in the media. Visit the CSW blog to read about her diversity work: https://csw.ucla.edu/2018/04/30/before-times-up-paula-williams-madisons-diversity-advocacy

Madison’s book, Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem, and her documentary film, Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China, tell the story of Madison’s re-discovery of her family history in Jamaica and China. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. 

Madison is currently Chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles-based media consultancy company with global reach. She also serves as a Founding Partner with The Group LLC, a high-level strategy, marketing, and communications consultancy also headquartered in Los Angeles.

In 2011, Madison retired from NBCUniversal where she was President and General Manager of NBC4 Los Angeles. She was also Los Angeles Regional General Manager for NBCU’s Telemundo TV stations, and Vice President and News Director of NBC4 New York. Under Madison’s watch, WNBC4 Los Angeles earned numerous Emmy, Golden Mike, and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. Her concurrent career as a writer and journalist also led to a 1996 Peabody Award for NBC4 New York’s investigation, “A License to Kill.”

Madison is the former Owner/CEO of the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball team. She also serves on the Boards of the Los Angeles Chinese American Museum, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Cardinal Spellman High School, the Greater Los Angeles United Way, the California Science Center Foundation, as well as Chair of The Nell Williams Family Foundation, and National CineMedia, the largest cinema advertising network in the U.S., where she chairs the Nominating and the Governance Committee(s).

To make this event accessible and to accommodate all attendees, we ask for your help in making this event fragrance-free. We would appreciate that all guests avoid wearing products that contain fragrances, which can include perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. These products can make some members of our community very ill. For more information, visit our Event Accessibility page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility/. 

If you have questions or have registered and can no longer attend, please contact CSW Management Services Officer Kristina Magpayo Nyden at kristina@women.ucla.edu

Details

Date:
May 31, 2018
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Venue

UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Optimist Room

Details

Date:
May 31, 2018
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Venue

UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Optimist Room