Author of The Myth of The Nice Girl to Speak at Pace

PLEASANTVILLE – March 26, 2018 – Fran Hauser, a long-time media executive, startup investor and celebrated champion of women and girls, will speak about her soon-to-be released book The Myth of The Nice Girl (April 2018) at Pace University.

Hauser, a Pace alumna and Bedford resident, will participate in a Q & A led by Pace Lubin School of Business Dean Neil S. Braun. The event will be held at Pace University in Pleasantville on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 12:15pm at Pace’s Kessel Campus Center, Gottesman Room. Pace University is located at 861 Bedford Rd., Pleasantville, NY Campus Map. RSVP here.

Hauser has held senior positions at some of the world's largest digital media businesses, including Time Inc.'s PEOPLE, InStyle, and Entertainment Weekly, as well as AOL and Moviefone. Now an angel investor who largely invests in female founders, Fran was named one of Refinery29's "6 Most Powerful Women in NYC's Tech Scene," and has been featured on CNBC and Vogue.com, and in Ad Age, Forbes, and more.

Hauser and her parents came to the United States from Italy when she was a young girl. Hauser’s parents were both entrepreneurs and ran their own businesses, despite not speaking English. Her father was a mason and her mother was a seamstress. From a young age, Hauser’s parents relied on her to do both the communications and books for their companies, due to the language barrier. She can recall being in the second grade and balancing school with writing invoices for her parents. Hauser excelled in school but was not encouraged to pursue higher education. She persisted and was the first in her family to attend college. Both Fran’s younger brother and sister followed in her footsteps and attended Pace University. Hauser has a book due out in April, “The Myth of the Nice Girl.” She also recently began an e-newsletter. See Hauser’s full bio on her website.

About Pace University: Since 1906, Pace has educated thinking professionals by providing high quality education for the professions on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, Pace has campuses in Lower Manhattan and Westchester County, NY, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, College of Health Professions, School of Education, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. A 2017 study by the Equality of Opportunity Project ranks Pace University first in the nation among four-year private institutions for upward economic mobility based on students who enter college at the bottom fifth of the income distribution and end up in the top fifth. www.pace.edu

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