Ann Crittenden is an award-winning journalist and author.  Her provocative book The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued powerfully exposes the last frontier in the fight for women's equality: motherhood.  She was a reporter for the New York Times from 1975 to 1983, where she authored a series on world hunger that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  She also has been a financial writer and foreign correspondent for Newsweek, a reporter for Fortune and an economics commentator for CBS News.  Her previous books include Sanctuary: A Story of American Conscience and the Law in Collision and Killing the Sacred Cows: Bold Ideas for a New Economy.

Crittenden holds a masters degree from Columbia.  She is married and has one son.

Linda Mason is chairman of the board and co-founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions.  She served as president from its founding in 1986 until 1998.  She was a founder of The Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, which aids non-profit agencies that work with at-risk children in communities with Bright Horizon employees.  She also co-founded the Horizons Initiative that serves homeless children in the Boston area.  Prior to founding Bright Horizons, she managed large-scale relief operations as co-director of Save the Children's emergency program in Sudan and directed a large feeding program for children in Combodian refugee camps.  She co-authored the book Rice, Rivalry, and Politics.  Mason also has worked as a consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton.

Mason is a graduate of the Yale School of Management, Cornell University, and the Sorbonne University.

Joining CNBC in 1998 as part of the network's strategic alliance with Dow Jones, Consuelo Mack is one of the most accomplished women in business journalism.  She is co-anchor of CNBC's "Market Watch" and managing editor of "The Wall Street Journal Report."  She also has been anchor and editor of "The Asian Wall Street Journal Report." Prior to joining CNBC, she was anchor and executive editor of "Today's Business," television's first nationally syndicated daily business news program.  She was a contributing reporter on the "Today" Show.  Prior to her television career, she held research and money management positions at prominent Wall Street investment firms, including Merrill Lynch and Mitchell Hutchins.

She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.  Mack is married and has one son.