Unshackle the world's most forgotten women The most vulnerable person on the planet is a girl. We're losing our girls to childhood marriage, pregnancy and slavery. Rising International's dream is to create a world where women and girls matter. Carmel Jud is the visionary founder and executive director of Rising International. Her entrepreneurial passion began …
Nitzan Cohen Arazi will share her take on 5 key factors which make Israel #1 in number of startups outside Silicon Valley. Having served as commander in the Israeli air force, through being an investor to starting her own company, Nitzan will tell her personal story while putting an emphasis on the impact that the …
Take a virtual tour through the collection of the deYoung and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor focused on artworks created by women. What do we know about their lives? Their art? Join a creative conversation about art, women, and women in art! Maurene Viele is a retired physician who specialized in blood …
Dr. Bahar Hashemi has a broad range of experiences in treating adults, children and adolescents of diverse backgrounds with complex issues including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, ADHD, eating disorders and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Hashemi is board certified both in adult and child & adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology …
Sonia will describe some of the most exciting developments in health technology, such as organ printing, gene editing, liquid biopsies, and parabiosis. She'll also explore what these technologies mean for your health as well as the broader policy and cultural implications. Futurist Sonia Arrison is a best-selling author and analyst who has studied the impact …
Aria Dibiase, M.D, serves as a Member of Clinical Advisory Board at WebMD Health Services Group, Inc and WebMD Health Services. Dr. DiBiase is a Disease Management Consultant involved in the clinical quality, program development and clinician training. She has practiced clinical cardiology and heart failure at Palo Alto Medical Foundation for 25 years. She …
During this member-only salon, we'll reflect and explore women and power from different perspectives: Courage/Fear, Conflict/Bullying, Empowering Others, Influence and Leadership. Women and power: Is there a more incendiary combination of words in the English language? Drinking and driving? Teenagers and sex? A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, …
Join in a conversation with Magan Priam Ray, chair of the ACLU of Northern California, as we discuss the current state of civil rights and civil liberties. What is under threat? What is at stake? How can we protect the Constitution and uphold our shared values of liberty and justice for all? Magan Pritam Ray, …
"Never be afraid to ask for what you need to make your whole life—not just your work life—work for you." Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO of TaskRabbit, will share some key moments of her career, spanning jobs at Google and Goldman Sachs and discuss how she navigated career and family challenges along the way. Stacy Brown-Philpot has …
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. These actions …
Join us as we review 2017 and look toward 2018. We'll share updates from committees, report financial results and present recommendations for consideration by the membership. Your input and feedback will be essential so this is a must-attend meeting for every active member. Download the meeting notes.
Words often fail us when we are dealing with major challenges: how to change, how to think in new ways, and how to solve seemingly impossible problems. That’s when symbols can help us find a new lens and tell a new story. Eileen Clegg is a visual journalist and founder of Visual Insight, working with …
