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CONFERENCE

SCHEDULE


Saturday, June 21
8:30-9:30AM
Cont. Breakfast

9:30-10:30AM
Annual Meeting

10:30 - 11:30AM
Conference Opening Session

12 Noon - 2:00PM
Luncheon with Dr. Sita Ranchod-Nilsson

2:15 - 3:30PM

Breakout Sessions
HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Women and Girls

Hermeyone Hunter
Nurse Practitioner, AIDS Atlanta

Dazon Diallo
Founder and President, Sister Love

Crystal Lander
Senior Advocacy Advisor, CEDPA

Microfinance:
Empowering Women Worldwide

Bryann Chen
Ex. Director, Refugee Women’s Network

Elizabeth Bara
Executive Director, ASAP Africa

Genia Topple
Executive Director, Rockdale Foundation


3:45 - 5:00PM

Breakout Sessions

Voices of Leadership:
Promoting Women in Governance

Nancy Gbana Abudu
Legislative Coordinator, GA; ACLU

Laura Jimenez*
Deputy National Coordinator, Sister Song

TBD *, Carter Center

Trafficking Women and Girls:
A Global Phenomenon

Leslie Wright
Board Member, UNIFEM/USA

Lola Ibitoye
Atlanta Coordiantor, Amnesty International USA

Alia El-Sawi*
Tapestri

Mark Lagdon*, Department of State

6:00PM
Tap Dancing Through the Board Room

Sunday 12 Noon
Brunch w/Joanne Sandler

 

*invited 

UNIFEM/USA 2008

Annual Meeting and Conference

Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22

SunTrust Conference Center

303 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, GA

 

SPECIAL EVENTS

Dr. Sita Ranchod-Nilsson

 

 

Saturday Luncheon

12:00 - 2:00PM

Join us for lunch with Dr. Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Director of the Institute for Developing Nations at Emory University. Dr. Ranchod-Nilsson is a specialist in sub-Saharan Africa and women in politics who will discuss gender-based violence in Liberia. Senator Nan Orrock (GA-District 36) has been invited to make opening remarks and discuss the importance of empowering women worldwide.

 

Saturday Reception and Performance**

6:00PM

 

Neale Godfrey

 

We are pleased to have the talented, well-known author and UNIFEM/USA Board Member, Neale Godfrey, perform her one-woman, off Broadway comedy: Tap Dancing Through the Board Room on Saturday evening. In the 60-minute production, Godfrey humorously explores one woman’s journey in the corporate world through a series of autobiographical monologues. Godfrey’s show is original, hysterical and so funny that many say they laughed so much, they cried.

 

 

Sunday Brunch**

12:00 - 3:00PM

Join us for brunch with former Acting UNIFEM Executive Director, Joanne Sandler, who will provide her insight to improve women’s safety in Latin America.

 

Joanne Sandler

Ms. Sandler has worked with international organizations and women’s groups worldwide for the past 25 years, with a focus on organizational development, strategic planning and economic justice. In her positions at UNIFEM, she has guided its efforts to implement programs in support of women’s empowerment and human rights in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

 

 

TO REGISTER for these and other exciting programs (see left hand column), please download the registration form here.

 

DON’T FORGET TO MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION at the Marriott Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA, 1-888-855-5701. MENTION THAT YOU ARE ATTENDING THE UNIFEM/USA CONFERENCE AND RECEIVE THE SPECIAL RATE OF $129 PER NIGHT.

 

** Will be held at the Marriot Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Ave. NE, Atlanta.

 

 


 

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