Coastal Studies for Girls is pleased to be bringing together a talented, invested, and growing group of supporters from all over the nation. We welcome the following people to our National Council, and invite you to read a bit more about them.

Lyn Mikel Brown

Ed. D. Professor of Education and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Colby College

Click here to learn a bit more about Lyn:
http://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/lmbrown/

Tina Grotzer

Ed. D. Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Principal Investigator at Harvard Project Zero

Click here to learn a bit more about Tina:
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/TG.htm

Cheryl Ward

Ph.D. Associate Professor, Nautical Archaeology, Florida State University

Click here to learn a bit more about Cheryl:
http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/people/faculty/?ward

Click on the links below to learn more about some of Cheryl's adventures as a nautical archaeologist!

http://www.adventurecorps.com/sadana/index.html     homepage for Red Sea excavation she directed.

http://www.adventurecorps.com/sadana/typicalday.html
description of our project there and how we feel about it

http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/research/uw/blacksea/ on the Black Sea

Whitney Ransome

Whitney Ransome is Co-Executive Director of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools (www.ncgs.org), a position she has held since the founding of the Coalition in 1991. An educator her entire professional life, Ms. Ransome was Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts and Ransom-Everglades School in Florida. She has served as a trustee, marketing consultant, and capital campaign coordinator for a host of schools nationwide.

Ms. Ransome has written extensively on the subject of girls, math, science, technology, and financial literacy.  Her most recent piece, Why Girls Schools?, appeared in the Fordham Law Journal and can be found on the NCGS web site.  She has been quoted in The New York Times, Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe, and has appeared on ABC, CNN, NBC and NPR.

   

 

     
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