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Independent Women's Forum
ORGANIZATION Nonprofit conservative think tank, founded in 1992 by Ricky Silberman and Barbara Olson. Effectively an anti-women's rights group, vocally opposing virtually everything that most women's rights activists support.
Board of Directors as of October 2006: Chairman Heather R. Higgins, Mary Arnold, Carol T. Crawford, Randy Parris Kendrick, Lawrence Kudlow, Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer, Ricky Silberman.
Directors Emeritae: Lynne Cheney, Midge Decter, Kimberly O. Dennis, Wendy Gramm, Elizabeth Lurie, Kate O'Beirne, Louise V. Oliver.
Official Website:
http://www.iwf.org/
Founding Date:
1992
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charlotte Allen |
Journalist |
? |
|
Conservative writer |
| Michelle Bernard |
Activist |
c. 1964 |
|
Conservative commentator |
| Elaine Chao |
Government |
26-Mar-1953 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 2001-09 |
| Linda Chavez |
Activist |
17-Jun-1947 |
|
Neoconservative activist, pundit |
| Lynne Cheney |
First Lady |
14-Aug-1941 |
|
Wife of US Vice President Dick Cheney |
| Barbara Comstock |
Government |
c. 1959 |
|
Republican opposition research expert |
| Carol T. Crawford |
Business |
25-Feb-1943 |
|
US Intl. Trade Commission, 1991-2000 |
| Midge Decter |
Journalist |
25-Jul-1927 |
|
Neoconservative maven |
| Kimberly O. Dennis |
Activist |
? |
|
Searle Freedom Trust |
| Wendy Gramm |
Business |
9-Jan-1945 |
|
Phil Gramm's wife, ex-Enron board member |
| Heather R. Higgins |
Activist |
1959 |
|
Chairman, Independent Women's Forum |
| Amy Holmes |
Columnist |
25-Jul-1973 |
|
BET host, conservative commentator |
| Laura Ingraham |
Pundit |
19-Jun-1964 |
|
The Hillary Trap |
| Joan W. Konner |
Journalist |
c. 1929 |
|
Dean, Columbia School of Journalism, 1988-97 |
| Lawrence Kudlow |
Economist |
20-Aug-1947 |
|
Kudlow & Cramer |
| Leslie Lenkowsky |
Government |
30-Mar-1946 |
|
Philanthropic Studies |
| Carol Platt Liebau |
Pundit |
13-Feb-1967 |
|
Prude |
| Carrie Lukas |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
| Karen J. Mathis |
Attorney |
c. 1950 |
|
President of the ABA, 2006-07 |
| Kate O'Beirne |
Columnist |
c. 1949 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| Barbara Olson |
TV Personality |
27-Dec-1955 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Conservative TV pundit |
| Ted Olson |
Government |
11-Sep-1940 |
|
US Solicitor General, 2001-04 |
| Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer |
Activist |
? |
|
Independent Women's Forum |
| Sally C. Pipes |
Activist |
? |
|
Pacific Research Institute |
| Richard Scaife |
Activist |
3-Jul-1932 |
4-Jul-2014 |
The Republican George Soros |
| Lisa Schiffren |
Activist |
c. 1960 |
|
Former Quayle speechwriter |
| Ricky Silberman |
Activist |
1937 |
18-Feb-2007 |
Cofounder, Independent Women's Forum |
| Christina Hoff Sommers |
Author |
1950 |
|
Who Stole Feminism? |
| Abigail Thernstrom |
Author |
1936 |
|
Opponent of Affirmative Action |
| Victoria Toensing |
Pundit |
16-Oct-1941 |
|
Washington lawyer |
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