Question: Hartford Hawks women's basketball team plays in a conference whose members are located in which part of the United States ?
Context: The 2015–16 Hartford Hawks women's basketball team will represent the University of Hartford during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.  The Hawks were led by seventeenth year Women's Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Jennifer Rizzotti and will once again play their home games in the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion and were members of the America East Conference.  They finished the season 11–19, 7–9 in America East play to finish in sixth place.  They lost in the quarterfinals of the America East Women's Tournament to Stony Brook. The 2013–14 Hartford Hawks men's basketball team represented the University of Hartford during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.  The Hawks, led by fourth year head coach John Gallagher, played their home games at the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion and were members of the America East Conference.  They finished the season 17–16, 10–6 in America East play to finish in third place.  They advanced to the semifinals of the America East Conference Tournament where they lost to Stony Brook. The 2014–15 Hartford Hawks women's basketball team will represent the University of Hartford in the America East Conference.  The Hawks were led by sixteenth year Women's Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Jennifer Rizzotti and will once again play their home games in the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion.  They finished the season 16-17, 8-8 in America East play for a fifth-place finish.  They advance to the championship game of the 2015 America East Women's Basketball Tournament which they lost to Albany. The America East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA Division I, whose members are located mainly in the Northeastern United States.  The conference was known as the Eastern College Athletic Conference-North from 1979 to 1988 and the North Atlantic Conference from 1988 to 1996. The 2017–18 Hartford Hawks women's basketball team will represent the University of Hartford during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.  The Hawks, led by second year head coach Kim McNeill and will once again play their home games in the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion and are members of the America East Conference. The 2013–14 Hartford Hawks women's basketball team will represent the University of Hartford in the America East Conference.  The Hawks are led by 15th year Women's Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Jennifer Rizzotti and will once again play their home games in the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion. The 2016–17 Hartford Hawks women's basketball team will represent the University of Hartford during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.  The Hawks, led by first year head coach Kim McNeill and will once again play their home games in the Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion and were members of the America East Conference.  They finished the season 17–14, 7–9 in America East play to finish in sixth place.  They advance to the semifinals of the America East Women's Tournament where they lost to Albany. The Hartford Hawks men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.  The school's team currently competes in the America East Conference. The Hartford Hawks women's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States.  The school's team currently competes in the America East Conference.  The school began the women's basketball team in 1975 as a Division III school.  The program moved to Division II and was a member of the Northeast-10 Conference (originally Northeast-7) between 1980 and 1984.  The school transitioned to Division I in 1984, playing as an independent school in 1984–85, and then becoming part of the Seaboard Conference in 1985–86.  The Seaboard Conference became the North Atlantic Conference in 1989, and changed their name to America East in 1996. The Hartford Hawks are the NCAA Division I athletic teams of the University of Hartford, located in West Hartford, Connecticut.  A member of the America East Conference, Hartford sponsors teams in eight men's and nine women's NCAA sanctioned sports with the men's golf team competing as an affiliate member of the Big Sky Conference, and the women's golf team as an associate member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.  The men's and women's tennis teams were discontinued at the end of the 2016 season, and women's lacrosse was added.
Answer: the Northeastern United States