MPWomen in New York: the evening in pictures
Fortune Most Powerful Women gathered for a blow-out celebration in May. We kicked off our 2009 MPWomen’s Summit theme, Betting on the Future, with a panel discussion with Google’s (GOOG) Marissa Mayer, Goldman Sachs’ (GS) Dina Powell, and Meredith Whitney, the influential bank-industry analyst. Also part of the evening: 32 rising star women leaders from 23 developing countries — participants in the 2009 Fortune-U.S. State Department Mentoring Partnership. For more on the gala, click here.
Scenes from the party…
Jocelyne Attal, former Avaya CMO, and Cecilia Attias, former First Lady of France
Meredith Whitney, bank industry Cassandra
WNBA chief Donna Orender, Susan Saint James, Solera Capital CEO Molly Ashby, and Danskin boss Carol Hochman
Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large
International Mentees with Gayle King (in orange) and daughter Kirby Bumpus (2nd from left)
Studio Museum of Harlem director Thelma Golden
The team behind the MPWomen Mentoring Program: Goldman Sachs managing director Dina Powell, Vital Voices CEO Alyse Nelson, and the State Department's Chris Miner
Gilt Groupe CEO Susan Lyne and Gayle King
Time Inc. Chairman & CEO Ann Moore
MPWomen Betting on the Future panelists Marissa Mayer of Google, Dina Powell of Goldman Sachs, and Meredith Whitney (with Pattie Sellers)
Marissa Mayer, Google's queen of search
Pattie and the Daily Beast's Tina Brown
CNN's Christiane Amanpour
MPWomen International Mentees and Christiane
Tory Burch: Helping women and families in the U.S.Co-founder and creative director of Tory Burch LLC
- Power Point: Heed the ham!
- Ex-White House Press Secretary: Straight talk on careers
- Portraits of Powerful Women
- Career advice in a minute–or 10
- Power Point: Oprah says, “Own yourself”
- Behind Oprah’s next big move
- NBCU’s “Trash TV”: the full view
- Power Point: How to pick a magazine cover
- NBCU gives new meaning to “Trash TV”
- Power Point: To friend or unfriend?
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Patricia Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Can Meg Whitman Save California?", Melinda Gates ("The $100 Billion Woman"), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). And she has broken ground with insightful pieces on career management issues such as ego ("Get Over Yourself!"), and "Charisma: Do You Need It? Can You Get It?" Pattie chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. And she has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" cover package since its launch in 1998. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big consumer brand companies.
Jessica Shambora started with Fortune as a reporter in June of 2008, following a stint as assistant editor at Travel+Leisure Golf. Shambora has written for Sports Illustrated, SI Latino, Women's Health, and Triathlete. She is a frequent contributor to Postcards. 
