Association for Women Journalists

Kelly Kleiman is a freelance writer on the arts, feminism, travel and social justice. Her reportage and essays appear in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor, among other dailies; in magazines including In These Times and Dance; in the alternative press; and on Chicago Public Radio. She is also editor and publisher of The Nonprofiteer, a blog about charity, philanthropy and nonprofit management. She holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago.

Alice Singleton is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and local media darling residing in
Chicago. She is obsessed with finding the antidote to the cult of mediocrity currently
plaguing our society and uses her extensive and vast experience as Everywoman to
focus her journalistic pursuits on the gale forces of gender, race and class that make
this American life the perfect storm. In addition to regular blogging on Huffington Post,
she is co-producing with director Anne Smith "Colossus Falls, U.S.A.", an interactive
and filmed documentary chronicling the U.S. and world economic collapse, which will
debut on Huffington Post in March '09, and make film festival rounds with Sundance '09.
Alice's greatest "work in progress" remains Marissa, her exceptional daughter.

Kerry Reid is a freelance theater critic and journalist whose work appears regularly in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, and Performink, the local theater and performing arts trade journal. She also covered theater in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years, writing for the East Bay Express, Back Stage West,SFGate, the web site for the San Francisco Chronicle. Kerry has also written several solo shows and plays that have been performed in festivals throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and she occasionally teaches a course on Reviewing the Arts at her alma mater, Columbia College Chicago. She is an AWJ mentor with the Goodman Theatre’s Cindy Bandle Young Critics Circle, a program co-sponsored by AWJ-Chicago.

Martha Wade Steketee was a court researcher and child welfare and domestic violence policy analyst in a past professional life.  Steketee been a script reader for Washington, DC and Chicago area theatres, has dramaturged productions and readings at Chicago theatres including Writers Theatre, Rivendell Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists.  She has published Chicago theatre reviews at Aislesay.com and mentors young writers in drama criticism in the Cindy Bandle Young Critics program co-directed by the Goodman and AWJ.  Steketee sees well over 150 Chicago productions a year, in part due to her active membership on the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee.  She has been a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas since 2004.