Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Geraldine A. Ferraro is president of G&L Strategies, a management consulting firm established to provide counsel to corporations and global organizations in the area of women's workplace and marketplace issues. Ms. Ferraro oversees G&L Strategies in both New York and Arlington. She communicates directly with corporate counsel and officers and provides recommendations for high-level consulting and implementation programs to assist corporations and organizations in maximizing the capabilities and potential of women and minorities in today's world economy.
Ms. Ferraro earned a place in history as the first woman vice-presidential candidate on a national party ticket. She was first elected to Congress from New York's Ninth Congressional District in Queens in 1978 and served three terms in the House of Representatives. Her committee assignments in Congress included the Public Works Committee, Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and Budget Committee, where she was a strong voice against the Reagan Administration's economic policies. Ms. Ferraro also served on the Select Committee on Aging where she was an advocate for the elderly, fighting proposed cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
In Congress, Ferraro spearheaded efforts to achieve passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also sponsored the Women's Economic Equity Act, which ended pension discrimination against women, provided job options for displaced homemakers and enabled homemakers to open IRA's.
From 1996 - 1998, Ms. Ferraro was a co-host of Crossfire, a political interview program, on CNN. She was also a partner in the CEO Perspective Group, a consulting firm which advises top executives. In 1994, she was appointed the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission by President Clinton and served in that position through 1996. She served as a public delegate in February 1993 and was also the alternate United States delegate to the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in June 1993 and Vice-Chair of the U.S. Delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, September 1995.
An active participant in the nation's foreign policy debate, Ms. Ferraro serves as a Board member of the National Democratic Institute of International Affairs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently a political analyst for FOX News, Ms. Ferraro also writes a bi-monthly column entitled "Campaign Update" for the New York Times Syndicate.
Before entering politics, Ms. Ferraro taught elementary school in the New York City Public Schools for five years. During that time, she also put herself through Fordham Law School at night. After spending thirteen years at home raising her three children, she joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office. There, she started the Special Victims Bureau, supervising the prosecution of sex crimes, child abuse, domestic violence and violent crimes against senior citizens.
Ms. Ferraro has honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities nationwide. She currently serves as a board member of the Fordham Law School Board of Visitors, the New York Easter Seal Society, the National Italian American Foundation, the Board of Advocates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Board of Advisors of the National Breast Cancer Research Fund and the Pension Rights Center.
In addition to numerous articles, Ms. Ferraro has written three books, Ferraro, My Story, which recounts the '84 campaign, Geraldine Ferraro: Changing History, and Framing a Life.
Ms. Ferraro was born in Newburgh, New York. She and her husband, realtor John Zaccaro, have three children, Donna, John and Laura.
Geraldine A. Ferraro is president of G&L Strategies, a management consulting firm established to provide counsel to corporations and global organizations in the area of women's workplace and marketplace issues. Ms. Ferraro oversees G&L Strategies in both New York and Arlington. She communicates directly with corporate counsel and officers and provides recommendations for high-level consulting and implementation programs to assist corporations and organizations in maximizing the capabilities and potential of women and minorities in today's world economy.
Ms. Ferraro earned a place in history as the first woman vice-presidential candidate on a national party ticket. She was first elected to Congress from New York's Ninth Congressional District in Queens in 1978 and served three terms in the House of Representatives. Her committee assignments in Congress included the Public Works Committee, Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and Budget Committee, where she was a strong voice against the Reagan Administration's economic policies. Ms. Ferraro also served on the Select Committee on Aging where she was an advocate for the elderly, fighting proposed cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
In Congress, Ferraro spearheaded efforts to achieve passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She also sponsored the Women's Economic Equity Act, which ended pension discrimination against women, provided job options for displaced homemakers and enabled homemakers to open IRA's.
From 1996 - 1998, Ms. Ferraro was a co-host of Crossfire, a political interview program, on CNN. She was also a partner in the CEO Perspective Group, a consulting firm which advises top executives. In 1994, she was appointed the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission by President Clinton and served in that position through 1996. She served as a public delegate in February 1993 and was also the alternate United States delegate to the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in June 1993 and Vice-Chair of the U.S. Delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, September 1995.
An active participant in the nation's foreign policy debate, Ms. Ferraro serves as a Board member of the National Democratic Institute of International Affairs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently a political analyst for FOX News, Ms. Ferraro also writes a bi-monthly column entitled "Campaign Update" for the New York Times Syndicate.
Before entering politics, Ms. Ferraro taught elementary school in the New York City Public Schools for five years. During that time, she also put herself through Fordham Law School at night. After spending thirteen years at home raising her three children, she joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office. There, she started the Special Victims Bureau, supervising the prosecution of sex crimes, child abuse, domestic violence and violent crimes against senior citizens.
Ms. Ferraro has honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities nationwide. She currently serves as a board member of the Fordham Law School Board of Visitors, the New York Easter Seal Society, the National Italian American Foundation, the Board of Advocates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Board of Advisors of the National Breast Cancer Research Fund and the Pension Rights Center.
In addition to numerous articles, Ms. Ferraro has written three books, Ferraro, My Story, which recounts the '84 campaign, Geraldine Ferraro: Changing History, and Framing a Life.
Ms. Ferraro was born in Newburgh, New York. She and her husband, realtor John Zaccaro, have three children, Donna, John and Laura.