O'Keefe-Mathis

Candace O'Keefe-Mathis has more than 25 years experience in continuing education and leadership development programming. The former newspaper and magazine journalist previously spent many years leading the Foundation for Women's Resources (FWR), a position to which she gladly returned in 2007. She leads a team of dedicated colleagues overseeing Leadership Texas, the Power Pipeline, Foundation alumnae efforts and the creation of the next generation of projects and programs aimed at continuing the advancement of women leaders in the 21st century. She has counseled Leadership America and oversaw the 1996 launch of the national emerging women's leadership retreat, the Power Pipeline. She was also the founding Executive Director of The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future, which opened in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution as the nation's first comprehensive women’s history museum in Dallas, Texas, in September 2000.