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2009 Women of Achievement Honorees
2009 Mistress of Ceremonies
Martha MacCallum
Co-Anchor, “The Live Desk”
FOX News Network
Martha MacCallum co-anchors "The Live Desk" with Trace Gallagher. She joined FOX News Channel as an anchor of "FOX News Live" in 2004. Having spent years covering Wall Street, Martha has focused intensely on the current economic collapse. She leads daily panel discussions on the political and economic fallout on The Live Desk. She is also currently writing a daily blog on LiveDesk.com called "Martha's Daily Glimmer of Hope," which looks for signs of life and the turnaround to come!
Most recently MacCallum co-anchored FNC's "Strategy Room" on Election Night, 2008. During her tenure with FNC, MacCallum anchored major international and national stories, including several interviews with first lady Laura Bush, coverage of murder victim Irina Yarmolenko and the search for her killer, Hurricane Katrina, the funeral coverage of Pope John Paul II, and the 2004 presidential election. She reported live from numerous Election 2004 events, including: Election Night, the Republican National Convention in New York, and the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Prior to FNC, MacCallum co-anchored CNBC's "Morning Call with Martha MacCallum and Ted David" and was the anchor of CNBC's "Checkpoint," an evening news program focusing on the war against terror and the Iraq war. While at CNBC, she created the series "Inside the Business," while actively serving as a contributor to MSNBC, CNBC World, NBC affiliates and NBC's "Today."
Before joining CNBC, MacCallum was an anchor and reporter for WBIS-TV in New York, and she served as a business news correspondent and anchor for "The Wall Street Journal Report," "World Market Outlook" and "Business USA" at Wall Street Journal Television.
MacCallum received a Gracie Allen Award in 1998 for her report titled "Glass Ceiling," which aired on "The Wall Street Journal Report." In addition MacCallum was the recipient of the American Women in Radio and Television award for her reporting twice, 1997 and 2003.
MacCallum began her career as a reporter for Corporate Finance magazine. She earned a bachelor's degree from St. Lawrence University.
MacCallum is a board member for Cancer Care and is actively involved in The Link School in Newark. She currently lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Katherine Houghton Zatz, Ed. D.
Chair, Board of Trustees,
American Public University/American Military University
Vice President for Development, Allpar LLC
Dr. Katherine Houghton Zatz has spent most of her life in the service of education, from being elected by her peers to the local school board at the age of 17 to her most recent position as the Senior Student Affairs Officer at SUNY-Rockland. Her career has centered around empowering her staff and students to solve problems and improve processes, from student tutoring to enrollment management.
As Vice President of Student Development at SUNY-Rockland, Dr. Zatz was responsible for enrollment management, financial aid, student activities and athletics, the student information system, two off-site centers at Haverstraw and Spring Valley, a variety of federal and state grants, and academic advising. She is currently a member of the Substantive Change Commitee of the Middle States Association.
Dr. Zatz was a co-founder and coordinator of a soup kitchen at 114th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. During the past twenty-five years, it has evolved into Broadway Community Incorporated, a non-profit organization serving over 30,000 meals a year. The program now incorporates drug, alcohol, HIV, and health education, and a shelter for homeless women. Dr. Zatz still serves on Broadway Community's Advisory Board. In 2007, Dr. Zatz became a member of the Registry of College Presidents and Senior Administrators, and is engaged in higher education consulting through the Registry.
Dr. Zatz is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Public University System/American Military University, an on-line university serving over 25,000 students in 60 degree programs. She is also Chair of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees.
Dr. Zatz holds a doctorate in higher and adult education and two master's degrees from Columbia University - Teachers College. She holds a certificate from the Harvard School of Education - Institute for Education Management and the Emerging Woman Leaders program of the American Council of Education, and has participated in the HERS program at Wellesley College.
She is married to Dr. David Zatz, an organizational psychologist and the founder of allpar.com.
Holly T. Schepisi
Owner, Law Firm of Holly T. Schepisi
General Partner, Aegis Texas Venture Fund I, Aegis Texas Venture Fund II,
Aegis Alabama Venture Fund
Ms. Schepisi is the founder of the corporate law firm, The Law Firm of Holly T. Schepisi, where she continues to practice. In 1997, Ms. Schepisi joined the New York office of Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky (formerly Roberts, Sheridan & Kotel) as an associate attorney. In 2001, Ms. Schepisi joined Dechert LLP (formerly Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP) as a senior associate attorney where she worked on numerous mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.
In 2004, she founded the corporate law firm The Law Firm of Holly T. Schepisi. Ms. Schepisi provides counsel to numerous early stage companies with respect to venture capital fundraising, corporate governance and alternative financing transactions. In addition to her private clients, Ms. Schepisi is currently the attorney for the Township of River Vale, New Jersey and oversees, among other things, issuances of municipal bonds on behalf of the Township. Ms. Schepisi is a former advisory board member of two publicly traded banks, Interchange Bank and BridgeView Bank. Ms. Schepisi is an organizer of and a director of AmericaFirstBank (in organization).
Ms. Schepisi is also currently involved with several entertainment related funds, including film funds, specializing in the structuring, debt negotiations, and private equity raises, and a principal in several real estate investment companies.
Ms. Schepisi received her B.A. with High Honors from The Catholic University of America and her Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law where she was on the Deans List, was a finalist for the Mehrige National Environmental Negotiation Competition and the I. Maurice Wormser Corporate Moot Court Competition. Ms. Schepisi was also a senior editor on the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal. She holds bar admissions in New Jersey and New York and is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Associations.
Jane A. Kurek
AVP/Community Relations Manager - Morris Region
The Provident Bank
Jane Kurek's professional career in the banking industry spans more than sixteen years. Ms. Kurek is the Assistant Vice President, Community Relations Manager for the Morris Region of The Provident Bank where she is responsible for managing the Region's relationships with public and private entities. Prior to The Provident Bank's acquisition of First Morris Bank & Trust in 2007, she held the position of Community Reinvestment Officer (CRA) for First Morris and was responsible for overseeing the bank's compliance with the Federal Community Reinvestment Act. Before joining the bank in 1996, Ms. Kurek worked for the Arts Council of the Morris Area and First Fidelity Bank (now Wachovia).
Ms. Kurek's dedication to organizations that assist Morris County residents is evident in many ways. In addition to her reappointment to the Morris Tomorrow Board of Trustees in 2008, she is a member of United Way's Affordable Housing Action Team, Morris County Human Relation Commission's Housing Committee, Ambassador for the Morris County Chamber of Commerce and the current chair of the Town of Morristown's Rent Leveling Board. Ms. Kurek was appointed by the Morris County Freeholders to the County's Advisory Committee on Women in 2003 and served for two years. She was a founding member of the Women's Leadership Initiative of the United Way of Morris County where she co-chaired the mentoring program.
In 1993 Ms. Kurek signed on as the Girl Scout Leader for her daughter Kristen's Brownie troop at The Assumption School. This began a wonderful experience with the troop growing and continuing their scouting experience until they reached the level of Senior Scouts. As an adult Girl Scout, Kurek represented the Morristown Community Girl Scouts as a delegate to the Council Board and was awarded the Council's Service Team Award. For several years, she was Treasurer of the Catholic Committee on Girl Scouts of the Paterson Diocese and received the Catholic Committee's Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Religious Medal.
Cited for her extensive community involvement, Kurek has been recognized by several organizations for her fundraising and organizational efforts. In Spring 2002, Kurek was awarded highest honors for her outstanding professional contributions to women and her enduring commitment to community service by the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners Organization (NJAWBO), the largest statewide women business owners' organization in the United States.
Additionally, the Patriot's Path Council-Boy Scouts of America at its Annual Tribute to Women Awards Ceremony honored Ms. Kurek as an adult member of Boy Scouts, in 2001 for her dedication to scouting and contributions to the community. In 2007 Ms. Kurek received the Wonderful Woman of Morris Award from the County College of Morris-Women's Center.
Ms. Kurek has been an active volunteer with the Community Theatre at the Mayo Center for Performing Arts in Morristown for over 13 seasons, and also volunteers annually at First Night Morris County. She is married to Michael Kurek and they have two grown children. She and her family are parishioners of Assumption Church, Morristown, and they have made Morristown their home for close to 30 years.
Nellie Pou
Assemblywoman
35th Legislative District (Passiac and Bergen Counties)
 Assemblywoman Nellie Pou is serving her twelfth year in the New Jersey State Assembly.
She represents the 35th Legislative District, which consists of Haledon, Hawthorne, North Haledon, Paterson, Prospect Park and Totowa in Passaic County and Glen Rock in Bergen County.
Assemblywoman Pou won election to her first full two-year term in November 1997, and has won reelection five times. She has been a member of the Assembly Appropriations Committee for over ten years, currently serving as Chair since 2006. Assemblywoman Pou is also a member of both the Assembly Budget Committee and the Assembly Education Committee. She is Chair of the Legislature's Latino Caucus.
Assemblywoman Pou holds the dual distinctions of being the first woman and the first Hispanic to represent the 35th District in the state Legislature.
A member of the New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect since 1997, Assemblywoman Pou was one of the primary sponsors of the bill that created the state Office of Child Advocate, which has been instrumental in improving the state's child welfare system.
A 33-year veteran of Paterson's municipal administration, having served 12 of those years as the city's director of Human Services, she currently serves as Paterson's assistant business administrator.
Assemblywoman Pou is a member of the Women's Democratic Caucus, the National Foundation for Women Legislators, the National Order of Women Legislators, Women in Government and the state Chamber of Commerce's NJ300 women's organization.
Assemblywoman Pou attended both Kean State College (now Kean University,) and Rutgers University.
Bonnie Hodge
Leader and Volunteer, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey
Bonnie Hodge was a Girl Scout in Saratoga County NY, with fond memories of earning badges, candle boat ceremonies, and Girl Scout Camp. Bonnie has been a volunteer with the Girl Scouts since 2000, and has led by example in so many different roles in Girl Scouting. She is currently the Leader of Ambassador Troop No. 233 and the Co-Leader of Cadette Troop No. 1955 out of Randolph, N.J. Bonnie has served in a number of other volunteer capacities in recent years including; Service Unit Manager for the Randolph Service Unit since 2006 and advisor for Project Safe Junior and Brownie troops at the Academy Street School in Dover.
She is currently a member of the Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey Advancement Committee and was a co-chair of the Taste of North Jersey event in 2008, as well as the restaurant co-chair for The Art of Cuisine event in 2007, and chair of the Randolph Lodge for the Capital Campaign for Jockey Hollow Camp. Bonnie has also participated as a team captain for the 1000 Woman Hike for the last four years.
In addition to Girl Scouts, Bonnie has also served in a number of volunteer roles through Randolph schools and community organizations. She served for four years as the Randolph BOE Character Education Development Committee co-chair, assisting with the development and implementation of a district-wide elementary pilot, Character Education Program. She has also served as an executive board member for the Center Grove School Parent Teacher Association and is a co-founder and Vice President of the Randolph High School Choir Booster Club. During the last five years Bonnie served as the Cheerleading Merchandise Coordinator and was an Advisory Committee member and a Cheerleading Squad Advisor for the Randolph Department of Recreation.
For the last six years, Bonnie has served as a Eucharistic Minister and religious education instructor for St. Matthew the Apostle Parish.
In 2004 and 2005, Bonnie was honored by the Morris Area Girl Scout Council with the Outstanding Leader and Outstanding Service Unit Member Awards. In April 2007, she awarded with the Thanks Badge by Morris Area Girl Scout Council. In 2008, she was given the Phenomenal Women Award by the Morristown Neighborhood House. Recently, Bonnie was named an Outstanding Volunteer, by the Randolph Department of Recreation.
Bonnie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the State University of New York, Plattsburg. She has additional training in supervising and managing from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, training in human resources and labor/employment law from Columbia University, and training in personnel law for HR Professionals from the Council on Education in Management.
Bonnie was a financial analyst for the Consumer Markets Division before serving as the vice president of Human Resources for PaineWebber, Inc. for eight years.
Bonnie is married to Bob Hodge and the proud mother of Jennifer and Lauren Hodge, both of whom are actively involved in the Girl Scout movement.
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