Feminist Leaders: Successes and Challenges for the New Generation

Location: Graduate Center at the City University of New York

Event Date: June 7, 2005

Speakers: Jemhu Greene, Astrid Henry, Amy Richards, Alison Stein, Yomara Velez

Moderator: Gwendolyn Beetham

Points for Action:

• Emphasize more creative organizational structures in order to value and appreciate women’s contributions at all ages.

• Pay more attention to both cross-generational and peer mentoring of and for younger women.

• Move away from strict definitions of feminism and allow young women to define the term themselves.

• Bring more men into feminist dialogue in order to make them part of the solution.