Agenda 2015

12:00 PM - Registration    

Lunch & Vox Pop on the Patio

1:00 PM - Opening Remarks in the James Moore Theatre  

Carla Sorey-Reed, founder and executive producer of Women Uninterrupted

1:15 PM - Talks Part 1

By Dr. Ruth Rosen, Marni Cohen, Jillian Kilby, Michelle Pitot, and Lateefah Simon.

3:00 PM - Break   

Coffee by the Koi Pond

3:30 PM - Talks Part 2   

Musical Performance by Oaktown Jazz Workshop followed by talks by Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, and Dr. Mylea Charvat.

5:00 PM - Reception

Wine Reception with decor and accessories donated by Pottery Barn

Speakers 2015

Better Together: Friendship Matters
by Rev. Leah D. Daughtry

Reverend, political strategist and CEO of the 2016 and 2008 National Democratic Convention

The Reverend Leah D. Daughtry is a nationally-recognized teacher, preacher, speaker, organizer and political strategist. Leah currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the 2016 National Democratic Convention Committee, reprising the role she played for the 2008 Convention. For her work as creator of Faith In Action, the Democratic Party’s outreach to communities of faith, Religion News Service named her one of the 12 most influential Democrats in the nation on faith and values politics. In addition, Leah is the founder of On These Things LLC, a strategic planning and management consulting service which produced the closing ceremonies of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.

The Women’s Movement: The Longest Revolution
by Ruth Rosen

Journalist, author and Professor Emerita at the University of California at Davis

Dr. Ruth Rosen is a pioneering historian of gender and society and an award-winning journalist.  She is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California at Davis, where she taught American history, women’s history, history and public policy, and immigration studies for over two decades. A former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, Ruth is the author of three books including The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America.

Throw It All On The Field
by Lateefah Simon

2003 MacArthur fellow and program director for the Rosenberg Foundation

Lateefah Simon, recipient of a 2003 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, is currently program director for the Rosenberg Foundation. Lateefah began her career at the age of 19 when she was appointed executive director of San Francisco’s Center for Young Women’s Development (CYWD), the nation’s first economic and gender justice organization solely run for and by low-income and formerly incarcerated young women. She has also served as executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

All Is Not Well in the Sisterhood
by Mylea Charvat

CEO and Founder, Savonix

Dr. Mylea Charvat is a translational neuroscientist and completed her Ph.D. Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine after receiving her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Palo Alto University. A veteran of the tech industry, Mylea served as director of staff development in operations for Travelocity.com in the 1990s, helping to grow the company to  over 1,000 employees in two years.

Deconstructing Interrupting
by Marni Cohen

Business Systems Developer at Puppet Labs

Marni Cohen is a Business Systems Developer by day and a video game designer by night. A bi-coastal English major, Marni works at Puppet Labs where she automates all things, builds documentation and tools and gamifies when possible. When she's not at Puppet, she can be found building queer video games.

You Only Get One Shot at it
by Jillian Kilby

CEO of JL Kilby Engineering and Australian John Monash Scholar at Stanford

Jillian Kilby has taken risks in life and love. If she had to define success, she would tell you it involves being a role model for empowered granddaughters. Her journey to date has been masked by the many things that were left unsaid, and a few that should have never been said. Since 2009, Jillian has run her own engineering company, an infrastructure incubator that acts in the interest of the public sector to deliver a healthy urban ecosystem. She is studying for an MBA and MPP at Stanford University.

“No.” It’s a Complete Sentence
by Michelle Pitot

Chief of Staff and Director of the Women’s Center for Economic Opportunity at the YWCA Southern Arizona

Michelle Pitot, EdD, LCSW, CPC  is a storyteller, writer, teacher and professional coach. An adjunct faculty member at the University of Arizona, she has worked in human services and education throughout her career. Michelle’s experience of finding her own voice gave her the courage to walk away from a successful corporate career and venture into the unpredictable world of nonprofit management. She is now Chief of Staff and Director of the Women’s Center for Economic Opportunity at the YWCA in Tucson, Arizona.

Comedy & Vox Pop
by Deborah Wade

Writer, performer and comedienne

Deborah Wade is a writer, performer and comedienne who has been entertaining audiences in the Bay Area and beyond for the past 20 years. She found her niche working with corporate clients in theatrical settings and discovered people learn, communicate, and thrive when they are having fun. This inspired her to write the book Lose The Frantic, Find The Fun…In A Manic Panic World, to be published Summer 2016.