2008 Keynote Speakers

	Gloria Estefan With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, Cuban-born singer/songwriter Gloria Estefan is the single most successful crossover artist in Latin music. In the mid-1980s the five-time Grammy Award winner pioneered a distinctive blend of rock, pop, dance, salsa, and Cuban influences with instant appeal to English and Spanish-speaking audiences alike. With her husband Emilio, she has parlayed her international popularity into a thriving business empire with interests in both music and film production as well as the hospitality industry. Estefan has also had notable success as a dramatic actor and children’s book author. A long-time AIDS activist and humanitarian, she heads an open-door foundation offering scholarships to individual students as well as grants to major nonprofit organizations. Estefan currently serves on the boards of the University of Miami, Univision Communications Inc., and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
	Mireille Guiliano Among the few businesswomen to reach the top echelon of the wine and spirits industry, Mireille Guiliano is the former President and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. (LVMH). Hailed as a pioneer in ultra-premium brand marketing, she is credited with reviving the venerable Champagne Veuve Clicquot product line with spectacular growth in the US market. Guiliano is perhaps even more well known as the author of the international bestseller, French Women Don't Get Fat—part memoir and part gastronomy and practical philosophy guide. Her latest book, French Women for all Seasons, follows up with more lessons about living the good life. A popular guest on radio and television, Mireille has appeared on such programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Early Show, Dateline and Today.
	Louise Leakey, PhD Representing the third generation of the world-famous family of paleoanthropologists, Louise Leakey was introduced to fossil hunting in East Africa practically from birth. In 2001, she helped to unearth a 3.5 million-year-old skull said to belong to a new branch of the early human family—a discovery that has reshaped the world’s understanding of mankind’s origins. Today as a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, Leakey co-directs a research project in Lake Turkana, Kenya with her mother, Maeve, conducting intensive fieldwork to trace the spread of early humans out of Africa. For this project, she is also working to preserve the unique flora and fauna of Kenya’s remotest National Park and World Heritage Site, and to improve the welfare of people on the National Park boundaries. An avid pilot and photographer, Leakey manages the family vineyard and is on the advisory board of Sea Shepherd Conservation International.
	Nancy Snyderman, MD A specialist in ear, nose, and throat surgery, Dr. Nancy Snyderman is on staff in the Department of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Concurrently, she is the chief medical editor for NBC News, bringing her award-winning reports to such popular shows as Today, NBC Nightly News, and Dateline NBC, as well as to MSNBC and MSNBC.com. Snyderman previously served as vice president of consumer education for Johnson & Johnson, and as medical correspondent for ABC News. Widely published in both the academic and trade press, she is the author of Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s Guide to Good Health for Women Over Forty, Necessary Journeys, and Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence.