March 30, 2006

WWB Career Panel Speaks to Bronxville School
Elementary School Fourth Graders

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As part of Women’s History month in March, fourth graders at the
Bronxville Elementary School studied women of history, ranging from
Queen Elizabeth to Rosa Parks, and learned that American women finally
won the right vote in 1920.  On March 30th, the fourth graders also heard
first-hand from a panel organized by the Working Women of Bronxville
about the careers of women in medicine, the arts, broadcasting and
investment banking.  

Lori Beecher, TV Producer for NBC News, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton,
concert violinist, Lisa Diaz, who works on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs,
and Dr. Kate Huncke, anesthesiologist at NYU, discussed their careers
in the High School Auditorium.  Beecher, Lim-Dutton, Diaz and Huncke
each gave 10 minutes of formal remarks about what they do daily in terms
that resonated with fourth graders and explored the important role that
school played in their professional development.  The children were
actively engaged and asked numerous questions.  All four of the WWB
panelists are mothers of children in the Bronxville School, with three of
them having children in the fourth grade.  The WWB hopes to make this
panel an annual event and is looking to create a panel of four WWBers
representing a variety of careers for next year.

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Lori Beecher is a producer for NBC News, where she has worked for the
past fourteen years.  Before working at NBC, Lori spent seven years
working for ABC News, in both New York and in Washington, D.C.  She
has been recognized for her contributions to the news profession with
honors from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as well
as being the recipient of an Emmy Award.  She has also received the
Sigma Delta Chi Award, given by the Society of Professional Journalists
and has been honored by the National Association of Black Journalists
for her news coverage of African Americans.  Lori graduated from the
University of Maryland, with a degree in Journalism.  She has lived in New
York for the past sixteen years, before moving to Bronxville with her
husband Marc six years ago. Lori's daughter is 4th grader Allie Burstein
who is in Mrs. Cramer's class.  She is also “mom” to two little boys, 5-year
old Jay, and three-year-old Michael.

Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Violinist, began studying at the age of three and
performed her first recital at age five. At the age of fourteen, Ms. Lim-
Dutton moved to New York to study at The Juilliard School (Pre-College
Division) and The Professional Children's School. Subsequent studies
were at The Juilliard School ( B.M.), The Ecole Normale de Musique in
Paris, France, and The Yale School of Music at Yale University ( M.M.)
Ms. Lim-Dutton has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestral
musician and has also recorded extensively as a commercial musician
for television, radio and movies. As a member of Steve Reich and
Musicians and the Steve Reich Ensemble since 1992, Ms.Lim-Dutton has
performed concerts in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. A recording
of Mr. Reich's Music for 18 Musicians received a 1998 Grammy Award
for Best Performance by a Small Ensemble. A resident of Bronxville for
eight years, Ms. Lim-Dutton is "Mom" to Luke ( 7th grade ), Jesse ( Ms.
Laitman's 4th grade ) and Sam ( age 1 ).

Lisa Diaz is a senior account manager in the hedge fund group at
Goldman Sachs where she has worked for close to fourteen years. She
has been involved in institutional sales for almost two decades following a
variety of markets from the US, Non-Japan Asia, Latin America, as well
as Global Media and Telecommunications. Lisa participated in the pitch
and execution of over 15 global telecom deals totaling some $31Bn and
is a member of the successful $24Bn Telstra team where Goldman was
appointed Global Joint Coordinator. Lisa is one of the founding members
and the co-Chair of the WWB, a member of the Fund Board of Lawrence
Home Care of Westchester, and a Board member of the World
Educational & Development Fund. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Middlebury College and in 2001, the college conferred on her, the
Bicentennial Award for Outstanding Alumni Contribution to Academic
Excellence.  A graduate of Bronxville H.S., Lisa lives in Bronxville with her
husband Alex and their two children Gabriela (Mrs. DeRuvo’s 4th grade)
and Alessandra ( 2nd grade).

Dr. Kate Huncke is an Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesia at the
NYU School of Medicine. She specializes in Neuroanesthesia and has
been in practice for 13 years. Dr. Huncke was awarded all her degrees
and training from UCLA. She earned her undergraduate degree B.S. in
psychobiogy from UCLA, attended medical school at UCLA and did her
internship in internal medicine and anesthesia residency at UCLA. Dr.
Huncke moved to Bronxville 6 years ago from Los Angeles with her
husband, John, and has two children in the Bronxville School; Sara who is
a 6th grader and Matthew who is in 3rd grade.
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