Annual Conference
The WDN annual conference is a highlight of my year. The speakers are top notch. It’s like the best college reunion, graduate seminar, and friends’ night out I ever went to, all rolled into one. I always leave brimming with new ideas and energy.
WDN Member, Barbara Dobkin
2009 Annual Conference
Women's Stories, Women's Leadership:
Social Change in Times of Crisis
Hotel Monteleone - New Orleans, Louisiana
November 5-8, 2009
WDN members and prospective members are invited to attend our annual conference.
Featured Speakers
Friday
- Keynote speaker Sarah Weddington, the attorney and professor who, at the young age of 27, successfully represented “Jane Roe” in the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case.
- Visits to the community and small group discussions with women activists who have assumed leadership roles in the post-floods community transformation process.
Saturday
- Panelist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, the Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum and professor of law at UCLA and Columbia law schools.
- Panelist Susan Sturm, professor of law at Columbia Law School and a founding co-director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia.
- Panelist and moderator Laura Flanders is the host of GRITtv, the new, daily, news-discussion and take action program.
- A Saturday night dance party with Charmaine Neville, of the legendary New Orleans musical family, and her band.
Sunday
- Rha Goddess, the Hip-hop “Floetry” artist and playwright, who will weave together the stories of our conference in an original piece.
Join us and…
- Share your experiences and make connections.
- Learn about new opportunities and challenges in building the movement for progressive social change.
- Participate in sessions that will strengthen your philanthropy and reaffirm your commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice.
- Engage in skill building activities and stimulating educational discussions.
- Take action together!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Need information? Call 415-814-1333 or email Kathleen Andreson.
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