The two activists appear in conversation with Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media. Thu. 7:15 p.m. Free (reservations required). Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., downtown. (213) 228-7025. lfla.org.

PATRICIA MITCHELL President and Chief Executive Officer The Paley Center for Media Ms. Patricia Mitchell has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media, a global non-profit cultural institution, since 2006. Before that, Ms. Mitchell was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Public Broadcasting Service, a non-profit public broadcasting television service, from 2000 to 2006. For more than two decades, Ms. Mitchell was a journalist and producer, serving as reporter, anchor, talk show host, producer and executive for three broadcast networks and several cable channels. Ms. Mitchell previously served on the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, Inc. from 2005 to 2010 and of Bank of America Corporation from 2001 to 2009. Ms. Mitchell brings to the Board extensive experience, expertise and background in media, telecommunications and broadcasting gained from her current service as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media, as well as her former role as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Public Broadcasting Service. In addition, she brings public company board experience gained from her service on the boards of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Bank of America Corporation.

Dr. Pat Mitchell

Along with the Governor's Award winners, Ashe County Manager Dr. Pat Mitchell recognized a group of high school students who worked in conjunction with Keep Ashe Beautiful to paint over a wall, covering its graffiti, at the intersection of U.S. 221 and N.C. 163. "I want to say how much we appreciate the clean up of that wall. It's one of the first things you see as you come up to that intersection, and I just think it's great that these young people are out there doing that kind of community development," said Mitchell at the end of Monday's meeting.

Pat Mitchell Pat Mitchell Pat Mitchell is president and chief executive officer of The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio). Before assuming that role in 2006, Pat Mitchell was president and chief executive officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a network correspondent, independent producer, and Time Warner executive. Her diverse background in media includes work as a journalist, producer, and executive. She has worked in front of the camera and behind, anchoring the news and reporting for broadcast networks, producing award-winning documentaries as president of CNN Productions and becoming the first woman president and chief executive officer of PBS. Throughout her career, Pat Mitchell has engaged the power of media and storytelling as an agent of social change and, specifically, to highlight the stories of women and girls. She was the first woman to launch, produce and host her own nationally syndicated program, Woman to Woman, and she continues to break new ground for women across the media landscape, including a current series of initiatives and programs called Women@Paley. Also known for her humanitarian efforts and her work as a dedicated member of numerous nonprofit boards, Pat Mitchell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Women's Forum; an adviser to V-Day: Until The Violence Stops, a global effort to stop violence against women and girls; a member of the Human Rights Watch board of directors; and a member of the Mayo Clinic's board of trustees, among other positions. Her many awards include more than 35 Emmy Awards, five Peabodys, and two Academy Award nominations. Named in Newsweek's 2011 list of "150 Women Who Shake the World," Pat Mitchell also was featured in Fast Company's special report, The League of Extraordinary Women, and was named by the Huffington Post as one of the Most Powerful Women Over 50.