The buzz coming from the Women’s Forum will be all politics when the University of Bridgeport organization opens its series of spring semester programs on Thursday, Feb. 7.

	Nancy Valentine, executive directory of the Women's Campaign School

“A woman’s place is in the House, the Oval Office and the Senate” is the title of the talk by Nancy Valentine, the executive director of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.

Valentine knows politics. With the school at Yale, she teaches women how to run for public office, and how to plan, manage and raise funds for campaigns. Jointly sponsored by the Yale Law School and Women's Studies program, the Women's Campaign School is a non-partisan, non-profit organization.

She prepped for her job by taking on a string of community, civic and social service assignments on boards in the Lower Naugatuck Valley. That experience culminated in her election as mayor of Ansonia in 1995. She was the first woman to hold that office in the 102 years since the city was founded. She was re-elected to a second term in 1997 and left public office when she assumed the leadership of the Yale Campaign School in 1999.

The forum will be at noon in the John J. Cox Student Center. The monthly sessions are open to all men and women on campus and in the region. Attendees should bring their own lunch. Coffee and desserts will be provided. For details, call (203) 576-4192.