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 Anne K. ReamAnne K. Ream is a Chicago-based writer and the founder of The Voices and Faces Project, a national documentary initiative created to bring the testimony of sexual violence survivors to the attention of the public. A longstanding advocate for women's issues, Anne is also the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer for Girl360.net, an empowerment project for tween girls, and the executive producer of The Voices and Faces Project, Volume One, a benefit cd that features many of today's hottest indie-rock artists. A former Senior Vice President and Group Creative Director at Leo Burnett USA, one of the country's largest communications agencies, Anne believes that creative and media-driven ideas can play an important role in social movements. A past finalist for the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Documentary Prize, Anne's essays and opinion pieces have appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Washingtonpost.com and other publications. A passionate lover of all things rock and roll, she is also a contributor to the forthcoming "Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan" (Cambridge University Press, 2009). In July of 2008 Soroptimist International, a non-governmental organization at the United Nations, presented Anne with its "2008 Making a Difference for Women Award." In so doing, the international selection committee lauded her "innovative efforts to improve the lives of women and girls" and her "passion for changing the status quo" through a series of creative, media driven initiatives. Anne is the recipient of the Susan Estrich Courage Award and the End Violence Against Women International Visionary Award, and was named one of People Magazine's "Heroes Among Us" in 2006. Anne was also recognized as one of "Chicago’s Top 40" by the Chicago Tribune in an article that highlighted the leaders, opinion shapers and trendsetters who "make the city great" while doing work that makes a difference on a national level. In partnership with attorneys Susan Estrich and Susan Vickers, Anne is a founding co-chair of "CounterQuo," a national initiative to change legal and media responses to violence against women. Anne serves on the advisory board of the country’s largest anti-sexual assault organization, RAINN. She is a past co-chair of the Leadership Committee for Chicago's Rape Victim Advocates, and has consulted for the Congressional Commission investigating sexual violence at the United States Air Force Academy. |