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Joan Harting Barham
Joan Harting Barham is a writer and editor who has spent more than two decades communicating to and with women—the prime audience for SAFE AT HOME—about their lives and their concerns.
In New York City, she served as a Senior Editor at Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle magazines and in Toronto, where she currently lives with her husband, as Editor-in-Chief of Fashion magazine. Joan has interviewed such luminaries as First Lady Nancy Reagan, business titan Leonard Lauder and Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins. At this point in her long career as a lifestyle journalist, Joan reckons that security may be the most significant women’s lifestyle issue of our day.
Amanda Bowman
Amanda Bowman is the New York Director of the Center for Security Policy.
From 2005 until the end of 2006, Amanda was the volunteer President of the Coalition for a Secure Driver’s License, a citizen activist group dedicated to making America’s “internal passport” secure against terrorism and identity theft. She continues to be an active board member and spokesperson for the organization.
Amanda has over 20 years of experience in corporate and philanthropic and consumer public relations, as well as a specialty in managing policy issues and public affairs. Amanda is married to David Levy, M.D., who leads Global Health Strategy for Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The couple have six children, one grandchild and two dalmatians.
Carol A. Taber

Carol A. Taber is president of the Family Security Foundation, Inc. (FSF), which she founded as a direct result of 9/11. FSF’s website is FamilySecurityMatters.org.
Because of FamilySecurityMatters.org, Ms. Taber was selected by the National Center for Policy Analysis’s profile of “The Woman of the Month,” an initiative of the Center’s “Women in the Economy” project that explores the choices women make and how public policies impact those decisions. The award cites the nominated woman’s unique contributions to the economy, public policy and society as a whole.
Carol is a seasoned business executive with a distinguished 30-year career in publishing that has earned her numerous professional awards and honors, including Outstanding Woman in Business; World’s Who’s Who of Women; and induction into the National Academy of Women Achievers. She currently lives with her husband of 13 years, and works to protect America’s sovereignty and security for her three grandchildren who live nearby.