Power Matters: Reshaping Agendas through Women's Leadership
The National Council for Research on Women invites you to join us at our 2005 Annual Conference, POWER Matters: Reshaping Agendas through Women's Leadership, co-sponsored and co-hosted by the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the City University of New York Graduate Center and 9 other NYC-area NCRW Member Centers.*
Featuring over 20 sessions, including:
A Special Public Forum on Women & Unions
Organized by the Institute for Women and Work, School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University & NCRW
REGISTER NOW (before May 15) and receive a $25 discount
Special rates for students! Registration forms available online at www.ncrw.org.
WHEN: June 6th-7th, 2005
WHERE: City University of New York Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
WHY? Because it's time for a change.
MORE REASONS WHY:
- Learn about cutting-edge research and the latest framing of issues such as human security; the work-life debate; women and science; reproductive justice; economic security; girls and leadership; women's political engagement; global and transnational feminism; religion and human rights; gender, media, and authority; and more!
- Network with successful women leaders from diverse contexts who will share their visions, agendas, and accomplishments and comment on key hurdles they've faced and foresee.
- Choose from over 20 sessions and hear from over 80 prominent and emerging thought leaders in politics, education, business, media, and policy arenas -- including Jehmu Greene (Rock the Vote), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), Marie Wilson (White House Project), Betsy Reed (The Nation), Terri McCullough (Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi), Dina Dublon (Former Chief Financial Officer, JPMorgan Chase), Thoraya Obaid (United Nations Population Fund), Sylvia Ann Hewlett (Center for Work-Life Policy), Irasema Garza (Women's Rights Department, AFSCME), Silvia Henriquez (National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health), Jael Silliman (Ford Foundation), Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College), Heather Johnston Nicholson (Girls Incorporated National Resource Center), Susan Bailey (Wellesley Centers for Women), Charlotte Bunch (Center for Women''s Global Leadership), Frances Kissling (Catholics for a Free Choice), Amy Richards (Author, and Activist), Lakshmi Chaudhry (AlterNet), Mary Hartman (Institute for Women's Leadership), Celinda Lake (Lake Snell Perry Mermin & Associates), Ella Bell (Dartmouth University), Elizabeth Castelli (Barnard College), Patricia Clough (Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY), Rayna Rapp (NYU), Paisley Currah (CUNY), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University), Carolyn Dinshaw (NYU), Ruth Mandel (Rutgers University), Debbie Walsh (Rutgers University), Vivian Nixon (CUNY), Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University), Elizabeth Castelli (Barnard College), and more!
Registration:
For a complete list of speakers and sessions, hotel info, and registration forms, please visit www.ncrw.org, or call us at 212/785-7335. We hope to see you at the Conference!
*Additional Co-sponsors:
The Barnard Center for Research on Women at Barnard College
The Center for American Women & Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University
The Institute for Women and Work at Cornell
The Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University
Legal Momentum
The White House Project
The YWCA of New York
The National Council for Research on Women is a network of 100 leading US women's research and policy centers, with a growing international reach. The Council uses the power of a women's research network to inform debate, policies, and practices, and build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls.
