March 22, 2002

In recognition of the progress and resilience of women leaders in the work place, the Association of Multicultural Members of Partners (AMMP) hosted a special Women's History Month celebration featuring guest speaker, Matina Horner, PhD.

Horner, who is a trustee of the MGH and chair of the Institute of Health Profession's Board of Trustees, delivered a talk entitled "Then and Now: Women Leading in a Male-Dominated World." She described with comical flair her advancement from a faculty appointee at Harvard University to president of Radcliffe, a journey in which she was always aware that her actions would affect the future access women would have to these positions.

Horner also detailed the changing diversity efforts of institutions throughout the country — including an earlier time when little attention was paid to demographics and fairness, affirmative action quotas, efforts to assimilate various groups and cultures into the mainstream, and today's diversity initiatives. Horner emphasized that only now are institutions positioned to achieve equality of access and opportunity while focusing on and respecting the importance of racial and ethnic diversity. Americans now are poised to experience "the real value of learning from each other," she said.

For more information about upcoming AMMP events, see the AMMP bulletin board located near the East Garden Room in the basement of the White Building, or call Ronald Greene, RN, chair of AMMP at (617) 724-8252.

From left, AMMP members David Wise, Jennifer Jackson, guest speaker Matina Horner, and Ronald Greene, RN, also of AMMP.