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Building on TED & the TEDWomen Conference: How can _we_ make conferences more inclusive spaces?
Wednesday, December 08, 2010 from 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM (ET)
New York, NY
Event Details
We invite you to join a provocative and productive conversation on how we, attendees and potential speakers, can help make conferences more inclusive spaces using the recent example of TED and the TEDWomen Conference as a starting point.
Our goal is to develop an action plan for TED, as well as other local and global conferences, so that they can better leverage their platforms to showcase diversity, unknown voices, and a bit more je ne sais quoi.
Help us envision the process by taking part in an event that actively seeks to model what diversity, representation, and inclusion look like.
Panelists include:
Rachael Chong, Founder & CEO, Catchafire
Rachael Chong is Founder & CEO of Catchafire, a for-profit social mission company that is revolutionizing the way that people volunteer. Catchafire matches professionals who want to volunteer their skills with nonprofits and social entrepreneurs that need skilled volunteers. Catchafire was named #1 in Huffington Post's Innovators Series and has been written up in TechCrunch and Change.org among others.
Rachael was previously an investment banker, and prior to starting Catchafire, she worked alongside the President & CEO to start up BRAC USA, the US affiliate of BRAC, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world. Rachael has a Master's of Public Policy from Duke University and graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University. Find her on Twitter @catchafire or email rachael [at] catchafire [dot] org. She also writes for the Huffington Post.
CV Harquail, PhD, AuthenticOrganizations.com
CV works as a consultant, independent scholar, and organizational change advocate. She writes the blog AuthenticOrganizations, where she combines current business and political issues with management science to offer a feminist, social justice, and not-entirely-capitalist perspective on organizations and their members. AuthenticOrganizations examines the challenges of aligning an organization's identity, actions, and purpose, and recommends tactics for members and organizations that want to become more authentic in their work together, and make a positive difference in the world.
CV holds an AB in Political Theory from Bryn Mawr College. She has a PhD in Leadership & Organizational Behavior from the Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan, where she also did graduate work and taught in the Women’s Studies Program. CV was a professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. CV’s academic research addresses organizational identification and identity, branding & the organization, corporate reputation, and organizational diversity & inclusion. She lives with her feminist husband and two daughters in Montclair, NJ.
CV holds an AB in Political Theory from Bryn Mawr College. She has a PhD in Leadership & Organizational Behavior from the Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan, where she also did graduate work and taught in the Women’s Studies Program. CV was a professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. CV’s academic research addresses organizational identification and identity, branding & the organization, corporate reputation, and organizational diversity & inclusion. She lives with her feminist husband and two daughters in Montclair, NJ.
Liza Sabater
Liza Sabater is a culture pundit, online communications technologist and blog publisher named by Fast Company as one of the most influential women in technology in 2010.
She is founder of culturekitchen (2000), a blog described as a progressive's dream with “a little attitude, a lot of scholarship, a good dose of humor and plenty of enlightening stuff”. It is the founding blog of the Feminist Bloggers Network, the Digital Ethnorati Project, Progressive Immigration Caucus and the Progressive Bloggers Business Network.
The Daily Gotham , a member of BlogPAC’s 50 state initiative, is described by New York politics insiders as "the 800 lb. gorilla" of New York City’s grassroots. It is one of the founding blogs of the New York Progressive Bloggers Caucus.
Liza has advised, contributed or worked with a wide variety of organizations including Blogher, Colorlines, CUNY-Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Impeach PAC, Kenneth Cole’s Awearness blog, Media Bloggers Association, New America Media, Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident, Phelps-Stokes’ Ralph Bunche Societies, Rhizome.org, Sunlight Foundation, The Nation, The Root, The Sanctuary/Pro-migrant.org.
In 2008 she was rated in the top 10 of NowPublic’ s MostPublic Index, a list of the 50 most influential individuals in New York’s new media market.
She was a frequent guest in Farai Chideya’s News & Notes (NPR) and has appeared in Laura Flanders’ GritTV, CNN, FOX5 Good Day New York, PBS’ NewsHour Online and HTI’s Destination Casa Blanca with Ray Suarez, and others.
Publications where she has been quoted, published or interviewed include The New York Daily News, New York Times, New York Observer, The Village Voice, Metro NY, Wired.com, Washington Post, Colorlines Magazine, AlterNet.org, Working Mother, Glamour Magazine, Le Monde, El País, and others.
Whenever she is not working on her blogs or evangelizing about the social media revolution, Liza returns to her secret identity as her boys' mom in New York City.
She is founder of culturekitchen (2000), a blog described as a progressive's dream with “a little attitude, a lot of scholarship, a good dose of humor and plenty of enlightening stuff”. It is the founding blog of the Feminist Bloggers Network, the Digital Ethnorati Project, Progressive Immigration Caucus and the Progressive Bloggers Business Network.
The Daily Gotham , a member of BlogPAC’s 50 state initiative, is described by New York politics insiders as "the 800 lb. gorilla" of New York City’s grassroots. It is one of the founding blogs of the New York Progressive Bloggers Caucus.
Liza has advised, contributed or worked with a wide variety of organizations including Blogher, Colorlines, CUNY-Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Impeach PAC, Kenneth Cole’s Awearness blog, Media Bloggers Association, New America Media, Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident, Phelps-Stokes’ Ralph Bunche Societies, Rhizome.org, Sunlight Foundation, The Nation, The Root, The Sanctuary/Pro-migrant.org.
In 2008 she was rated in the top 10 of NowPublic’ s MostPublic Index, a list of the 50 most influential individuals in New York’s new media market.
She was a frequent guest in Farai Chideya’s News & Notes (NPR) and has appeared in Laura Flanders’ GritTV, CNN, FOX5 Good Day New York, PBS’ NewsHour Online and HTI’s Destination Casa Blanca with Ray Suarez, and others.
Publications where she has been quoted, published or interviewed include The New York Daily News, New York Times, New York Observer, The Village Voice, Metro NY, Wired.com, Washington Post, Colorlines Magazine, AlterNet.org, Working Mother, Glamour Magazine, Le Monde, El País, and others.
Whenever she is not working on her blogs or evangelizing about the social media revolution, Liza returns to her secret identity as her boys' mom in New York City.
Adaora Udoji
One of the 25 Most Influential African Americans. --Essence Magazine
Adaora Udoji is an award-winning journalist and lawyer. Most recently, she was the co-host of the popular public radio morning drive show "The Takeaway". Udoji's ability to rapidly distill complex relationships and issues -- skills honed over 12 years of work as a war correspondent at ABC News, a correspondent at CNN and later an anchor at CourtTV.
Raised in the United States and Nigeria, Udoji has since covered some of the most critical international and domestic stories of the past dozen years as an on-air correspondent, delivering award-winning coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for ABC News, the last four presidential elections and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more. Udoji was among those who contributed to CNN receiving the Peabody Award for their heralded coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and a DuPont Columbia University Award for their coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia.
Adaora Udoji is an award-winning journalist and lawyer. Most recently, she was the co-host of the popular public radio morning drive show "The Takeaway". Udoji's ability to rapidly distill complex relationships and issues -- skills honed over 12 years of work as a war correspondent at ABC News, a correspondent at CNN and later an anchor at CourtTV.
Raised in the United States and Nigeria, Udoji has since covered some of the most critical international and domestic stories of the past dozen years as an on-air correspondent, delivering award-winning coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for ABC News, the last four presidential elections and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more. Udoji was among those who contributed to CNN receiving the Peabody Award for their heralded coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and a DuPont Columbia University Award for their coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia.
Moderator:
Brittany McCandless, Producer, CNN
Brittany McCandless is a journalist with a print and broadcast background. She currently works on CNN’s newest primetime show, Parker Spitzer, where she researches for co-host Eliot Spitzer and produces guest segments on politics, economics, culture and foreign affairs. She has previously produced for CNN’s Weekend Newsroom, American Morning and for Good Morning America at ABC News. She has also written for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and several online publications.
McCandless is an ambassador in the New York Young Leaders Program, through which she helped organize and host the NYYL Women’s Leadership Conference this spring. She was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi research award for her thesis on the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Full disclosure: This event is organized separately from the TEDWomen Conference. NYWSE Chapter Leader Natalia Oberti Noguera is hosting TEDx636EleventhAve, a TEDx event in NYC around the TEDWomen Conference featuring live speakers and a live-stream.
