IGNITING CHANGE:
ACTIVATING ALLIANCES FOR
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Women in Business Series

Investing in Success: Advancing Women's Leadership in Business

Sponsored by Accenture

Women and the Economic Crisis  Challenges and Opportunities

Resources: Terri Austin, AIU Holdings, Inc.; Subha Barry, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch; LaMae Allen deJongh, Accenture; Ana Duarte McCarthy, Citi; Aynesh Johnson, Goldman Sachs; Kerrie Peraino, American Express; Melinda Wolfe, Bloomberg L.P.

Resiliency and Reinvention  Strategies for Turbulent Times (workshop)

Facilitators: Marilyn Puder-York; Lauren W. Ashwell

Resource: Julie M. Johnson, The Reid Group

Getting to 50/50  How Working Couples Can Have It All By Sharing It All

Speaker: Sharon Meers, Co-author, Getting to 50/50 and Former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

[for one-day Women in Business series package information, contact: lrast@ncrw.org]

Welcome and Opening Plenary

Welcome

Linda Basch, President, National Council for Research on Women; Eleanor Horne, Chair, NCRW Board of Directors; Anne Humpherys, Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY; Eleanor Smeal, Director, The Feminist Majority and Publisher, Ms. Magazine

Opening Plenary: Powering Change: Is there a New Landscape for Social Justice?

Heather Boushey, Center for American Progress; Irasema Garza, Legal Momentum; Alan Jenkins, The Opportunity Agenda; Lisa Mensah, The Aspen Institute; Rinku Sen, Applied Research Center

Moderator: Linda Basch

WELCOME RECEPTION and NCRW Member Center Awards

Speaker

Donna Orender, President, National Women's Basketball Association

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1. Youth: Opportunities and Challenges for Building Pipelines for Leadership

2. Health and Reproductive Rights

Anika Rahman (moderator), Americans for UNFPA; Sharon Camp, Guttmacher Institute; Wendy Chavkin, Columbia University; Adrienne Germain, International Women’s Health Coalition; Silvia Henriquez, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health; Loretta Ross, SisterSong

3. Women, War and Security

Andrea Friedman (moderator), Global Justice Center; Carol Cohn, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Anisha Desai, Women of Color Resource Center; Cynthia Enloe, Clark University: International Development; Megan MacKenzie, The Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1. Diversifying Leadership: Grantees Panel

Delores Walters (moderator), National Council for Research on Women; Patricia Deyton, Simmons College Center for Women in Organizations; Jessica Fields and Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality; Mary Frederickson, Miami University of Ohio; Lynn Fujiwara, University of Oregon; Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Southwest Women’s Law Center; Donna Stewartson, University of Massachusetts, Boston Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

2. Popular Culture and Gender Images

Leslie Bennetts (moderator), journalist/author; Latoya Peterson, Racialicious.com; Laura Plybon, Girls Inc. Glennda Testone, Women's Media Center; Anne Zill, Women's Center for Ethics in Action, University of New England/ Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust

3. Science, Environment and Technology

Veronica Arreola, UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender; Chris Cuomo, University of Georgia, Institute of Women's Studies; Xuan Nguyen, Women's Environment and Development Organization; Allannah Thomas, Helicon Inc.; Soon-Young Yoon, International Alliance of Women

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1. Developing Political Agendas

Shyama Venkateswar (moderator), National Council for Research on Women; Victoria Budson, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Ellen Chesler, Hunter College; Linda Tarr-Whelan, Demos; Marie Wilson, The White House Project;

2. Historical Memories: Milestones, Current Challenges and the Future of the LGBT Movement:

Sarah Chinn, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY; Cheryl Clarke, Rutgers University, Office of Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities; Jaime Grant, Policy Institute, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Amy Sueyoshi, Center for Research on Gender & Sexuality, San Francisco State University (SFSU); Narumi Tei Okamoto, Center for AIDS Prevention, SFSU; Carmen Vazquez, LGBT Health & Human Services Unit, AIDS Institute

3. Philanthropy, Social Entrepreneurship and Activism

Ana Oliveira (moderator), New York Women's Foundation; Richard Brown, American Express; Sara Gould, Ms. Foundation; Janelle Shubert, Babson College; Maria Torres, NYC Economic Development Corporation

4. Investing in Women and the Economy

Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College; Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Caren Grown, American University; Mia Herndon, Third Wave Foundation; Ipek Ilkkaracan, Istanbul Technical University; Francine Moccio, Cornell University

Afternoon Plenary:
A New Agenda for Global Human Rights?

Isobel Coleman (moderator), Council on Foreign Relations; Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University; Lamia Karim, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon; Jill Lester, The Hunger Project; Geeta Rao Gupta, International Center for Research on Women; Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto

New Strategic Directions for Ford Foundation Giving: A Roundtable Discussion

(Open to all Conference registrants)

Alison Bernstein, Margaret Hempel, and Helen Neuborne from the Ford Foundation

Hands-On Workshops

(Open to all Conference Registrants)

Workshop A – Blogging

Deborah Siegel, Girl w/Pen Consulting

Workshop B – Political Leadership

Erin Vilardi, The White House Project

Crafting Multicultural Alliances: Defying the Norms

A Workshop with Campus Women Lead

(special program for all attendees from NCRW member centers)

Facilitators: Patricia (Pat) Lowrie, Campus Women Lead and Michigan State University; Caryn McTighe Musil, Association of American Colleges & Universities, Program on the Status and Education of Women