Who Will Do This Project and Why?

Many of us have been asked about our futures when we were too young and uninformed about our choices. This project will help solve that problem.

The Internet offers unprecedented opportunity to network with women in non-traditional fields. The Web supports this type of communication as well. This is an interesting and unique way to introduce alternative career choices to young women, and to share interest and resources among women professionals.

The research and compilations will be conducted by Judi Clark, with fundraising and promotional assistance by Audrie Krause.

Ms. Clark is currently self-employed as a Graphics Communication and Information Services Consultant. During recent years, she has been Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and since 1991 has been active as an organizer, coordinator, and Steering Committee member for the annual Conferences on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP). Ms. Clark is also involved with social-action groups, co-founding BAWiT (a group of women dedicated to sharing information to assist in formulating policies concerning access to information, network privacy and usage), and organizer of a free monthly special interest group on Freedom, Privacy and Technology. Currently, she sponsors an eclectic collection of award- winning sites on the World-Wide Web, including Global Show-n-Tell, featuring children's artwork, and Free Tibet, an information site about the social, political and living conditions in Tibet.

Audrie Krause is the founder of NetAction, a newly-established non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public, policymakers and the media about technology-based social and political issues, and promoting effective grassroots citizen action campaigns on these issues by providing training to online activists in organizing skills and linking online activists with community-based organizations. Ms. Krause previously served as Executive Director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and as Executive Director of TURN, a statewide utility consumer watchdog group. At CPSR, she faciliated the group's participation as a plaintiff in ACLU v. Reno, which challenged the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act provisions of the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996, and helped to establish Community Memory, a highly-successful and popular discussion list on the history of cyberspace. During her tenure at TURN, she shined the media spotlight on violations of California open meetings law by the state Public Utilities Commission and advocated successfully against rate increases to fund utility efforts to promote electric cars.