Past YWCA of Silicon Valley Annual Luncheon Information
Past Keynote Speakers
| 2009 | Sonia Manzano — award winning TV star, script writer, and author of children's books |
| 2008 | Alfre Woodard — accomplished actress and advocate for civil rights in South Africa | 2007 | Billie Jean King — Athlete, Visionary, Innovator |
| 2006 | Mavis Leno — Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign Chair to stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan |
| 2005 | Gloria Steinem — feminist, writer, lecturer, editor, and activist |
| 2004 | Sally Ride — First American woman in space, author, educator |
| 2003 | Benazir Bhutto — Former Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| 2002 | Patty Duke — Author and award-winning Actress |
| 2001 | Janet Reno — First woman U.S. Attorney General |
| 2000 | Linda Ellerbee — Best-selling author and award-winning journalist |
| 1999 | Mary Lou Retton — Olympic Gold Medallist |
| 1998 | Susan Estrich — Law professor, author, legal and political commentator |
| 1997 | Isabel Allende — Internationally acclaimed author and lecturer |
| 1996 | Dr. Joycelyn Elders — First African-American Surgeon General of the United States |
| 1995 | Dr. Mae Jemison — Astronaut, first African-American woman to enter space |
| 1994 | J. Frances Lear — Founder of Lear Magazine and respected speaker on mature women's issues |
| 1993 | Ellen Goodman — Nationally syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary |
| 1992 | Anna Quindlen — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist |
| 1991 | Wendy Wasserstein — Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and writer |