Eve Ensler, the founder and artistic director of V-Day (www.vday.org), the global movement to end violence against women and girls that was inspired by The Vagina Monologues.------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Jane Fonda focuses the bulk of her time on activism and advocacy on environmental issues, human rights, and the empowerment of women and girls. In 1995, she founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP.) In 2000 she produced a film with the International Women's Health Coalition, entitled Generation 2000: Changing Girls' Realities----------------------------------------Carol Gilligan, Ph.D.,, named one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1996 by Time Magazine, has shown how the inclusion of women and girls’ voices changes the paradigm of psychology, opening up new ways of thinking about education and mental health. Her books include In a Different Voice, Meeting at the Crossroads, Between Voice and Silence, and The Birth of Pleasure. She has just released her first work of fiction, a novel, titled Kyra. Together with her students, Gilligan founded the Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development, and in 1997, she was appointed to Harvard’s first professorship in gender studies. Gilligan is currently a professor at New York University-------------------------------------Alice Walker is known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (now a major Broadway play), her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections----------------------------------Kerry Washington is a member of the V-Counsel, a group of advisors to V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls------------------------------------Betty Williams has devoted her life to relieving the suffering of the world’s children. She founded the Global Children’s Studies Center in 1992. This evolved into founding the World Centers of Compassion for Children International, in 1997, in honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who serves on the advisory board.many more including but not limited to Ellen DeGeneres, Melissa Etheridge, Gloria Steinem...