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RESUME for Jane Roberts

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1970-2000 taught part time at the University of Redlands including the first women s studies class, coached

the women s tennis team. With my husband raised two kids. Taught French, coached boys and girls tennis

teams

2001 joined the PLANET campaign sponsored by the Hewlett and Packard Foundations to try to urge Americans to

support international family planning.

2002 cofounded 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund

2003 Traveled to Mali and Senegal as a guest of UN Family Planning Assn (UNFPA) to see their work on site.

2003 one of the Women of the Year for MS Magazine and received a Special Recognition Award from the Population,

Reproductive Health, and Family Planning branch of the American Public Health Association.

2004 one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for Women s eNews.

2005 With Lois Abraham, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the 1000 Peace Women Project under the patronage

of UNESCO in Bern, Switzerland. 2005 was the 100th anniversary of the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

www.1000peacewomen.org

2005 My book 34 MILLION FRIENDS of the Women of the World was published by LadybugPress.

Since 2002, I have traveled to 30 states and spoken at over 50 colleges and universities and to civic, law, environmental,

women s, church, and public health groups about 34 Million Friends and the deeper issues of population and

development, of the environment, and of the human rights of women and girls. I have had perhaps 40 radio/TV

interviews.

Since 2002 I have collected contact information for individuals, organizations, and media personnel, (about a 150 page

list) whose interests may coincide with 34 Million Friends and with the film on gender inequality.

Oct. 2007 I attended the international conference on maternal health in London to commemorate the 20th anniversary

of the Safe Motherhood Initiative (www.womendeliver.org )

2007-2008 Involved in discussions about a major motion picture documentary about gender inequality worldwide with

particular emphasis on women s and girls access to education and health as it relates to the Cairo Consensus and the

Millennium Development Goals. This had the strong backing of (now deceased) Allan Rosenfield, Dean of the Mailman

School of Public Health at Columbia University, and has the backing of Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of

UNFPA. The planning proposal has been funded by the Packard Foundation and the final proposal is now being sent out

to several foundations and private funders.

2008-2009 I am a regular contributor to Maxims News. www.maximsnews.com

I coordinate my activities with the United Nations Association, Pasadena, CA chapter

2008 named Purpose Prize Fellow through Civic Ventures which encourages older Americans to have socially useful

encore careers. www.encore.org

September 8, 2009. Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends was the second half of Chapter 8 in Half the Sky:

Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof

and Sheryl Wudunn .

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