Leading toward the Future: Girls and Leadership

Location: Graduate Center at the City University of New York

Event Date: June 6, 2005

Speakers: Patti Binder, Elizabeth Blanchard, PeiYao Chen, Kimberlee Salmond, Judy Schoenberg, Sally Stevens

Moderator: Heather Johnston Nicholson

Points for Action:

• Treat girls as leaders today, not just as junior partners in preparation for future leadership.

• Create wider and more meaningful opportunities for leadership by girls and young women of color by creating stronger coalitions and more programs that fully address the needs of all girls.

• Engage women, including young women, as philanthropists for girls’ leadership.

• Foster girls’ financial literacy