MIS EDUCATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL WOMAN

You went to school, you make a six figure income, you have the corner office, the big house, the fabulous vacation. Are you happy? Our Guests NORAH VINCENT Author Voluntary Madness. My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin Vincent, the bestselling author of Self-Made Man, in which she wrote about disguising herself as a man, decided to have herself voluntarily committed to three different institutions. (She declined to provide their real names to protect the privacy of doctors and patients she met there.) She first faked her way into a big city public hospital by pretending to have a recurrence of her previous depression. She then intentionally caused a relapse of her depression by going off her antidepressant, which led to her being admitted to a small private hospital. Finally, she tried a recovery facility replete with yogaclasses, gym, and facials Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D. DC): Dr. Jones-DeWeever is the director of the National Council of Negro Women’s Research, Public Policy, and Information Center. Erica Gonzalez: Erica Gonzalez is the opinion page editor for El Diario/la Prensa, the third largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the country. As the opinion page editor, Erica develops and writes the paper’s editorial position on local and national issues. She edits weekly columnists, recruits guest writers, and initiates editorial board meetings with candidates for elected office and an array of organizations and leaders. Gonzalez received an award from the National Association of Hispanic Publications for an editorial on fear-mongering around former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s driver’s license initiative. She regularly represents El Diario/la Prensa on media panels and has appeared on Good Day Street Talk and Air America’s Grit TV. Linda Lowen: Linda Lowen covers Women's Issues for About.com, one of the top fifteen most-visited sites on the Internet and a New York Times Company-owned website. A former radio and televisio