JANE GLENN HAAS Biography

Jane Glenn Haas
Journalist/WomanSage Founder

JANE GLENN HAAS is a multi-media personality – a newspaper writer, national columnist, book author, television host, professional speaker and founder of WomanSage, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering, educating and fostering mentoring relationships among women at midlife.

As a testimony to her vision, in less than four years, WomanSage has become a national organization reaching more than 6,000 women with regular e-mails, web site updates and blogs (www.womansage.org) and a newsletter. There are four established chapters and more than 20 in formation.

Haas currently is writing a book – “Shift Happens” -- on the many ways women deal with second midlife crisis events – from loss of a job to divorce and widowhood. She has collected more than 3,800 surveys from midlife women world-wide talking about how their lives are different from their mothers’. The survey is posted on the www.womansage.org web site.

In November, 2006, Haas retired, ending a 25-year career as a writer for The Orange County Register. However, she continues to write two columns weekly for the newspaper. “Our Time” and “Our Health” are distributed to 300 newspapers by McClatchy News Service. A recent column on remarriage at midlife garnered 493 survey responses in eight days.

Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, she has been honored for Excellence in Aging Reporting with the Hugh Downs Award of the International Longevity Center; the American Society on Aging Media Award; the American Medical Writers Association Rose Kushner Award; the American Heart Association C. Everett Koop Award; the Alzheimer’s Association Rosemary Award, and many others.

Her research on women at midlife already has led to coverage by TIME magazine, as well as The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and other publications. She was asked to be a featured writer in a special TIME report on women at midlife.

She has appeared on the Today Show and was recently a featured speaker at the Texas Governor’s Conference for Women, the Massachusetts Governor’s Conference for Women and the Xerox Women’s Alliance. Los Angeles CBS-TV commentator Stacey Butler featured Haas and WomanSage in a two-part series on the Channel 2 evening news in December.

She is a speaker at a variety of local and national events, including panelist at the International Longevity Center in New York; featured speaker for AARP conventions and meetings; a regular presenter at the American Society on Aging; emcee and host for many local and state events. She is the author of “Time of Your Life: Why Almost Everything Gets Better After Fifty” (Seven Locks Press). For seven years, she hosted a call-in television program on aging issues on the former OCN cable station. She appears regularly on PBS stations KCET and KOCE.

She can be reached at jghaas@aol.com.