SECRETARY NANCY KLANCHER is director of the Graduate Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon, where she offers multiple academic support programs for graduate students. She especially supports traditionally under-represented students: graduate students of color and graduate women in the science and technical fields. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, she was Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where she managed the Dean's Diversity Committee. Nancy holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in English Literature from Boston University. She also spent eight years in the English Ph.D. program there, where she specialized in feminist literary theory and narrative ethos. She has two daughters, aged 7and 11, three cats, and a garden she hovers over nervously spring to fall. This is her sixth year as chapter secretary.