In
this powerful documentary, individuals share their personal histories
and reasons for avoiding the political process, as well as their
struggles and triumphs. Hear the voices of those busy raising families,
working multiple jobs, and constrained by time, culture, family,
history, language, and fear of political engagement.
This is your story, your parents' story, and the story of millions of
women who do not yeat participate in our political process.
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EVENTS
Engage Her Silicon Valley
A special introductory Engage Her meeting
will be held in Silicon Valley
July 15, 2009
Contact Tameeka Kelley at tkelley.kelley@gmail.com
510-393-7765 for more info.
Engage Her Announces
Multicultural Women's
Leadership Conference at
Barnard College
Columbia University
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 26 - 27, 2009
Details to be announced.
For more information
please contact:
Tameeka Kelley at tkelley.kelley@gmail.com
510-393-7765
Congratulations to
The Four Legends of Feminism
"Passing
the Baton"
Sunday, April 26, 2009
UC Berkeley
A historic event honoring four
of the most prominent women feminist and activists of our time
Gloria Steinem Yuri Kochiyama
Aileen Hernandez Dolores Huerta
Happy 75th Birthday Gloria!
ENGAGE HER the Documentary
Why
do the vast majority of African American, Latina, and Asian American
Pacific Islander women in the U.S. fail to vote? And why doesn't anyone
seem to care?
ISSUES
EDUCATION
Most
parents and
families believe that education is their top priority and the best way
that they can improve their quality of life and achieve prosperity for
themselves and their families. Many immigrants and Americans believe in
the basic premise of quality education for all Americans and citizens.
They braved hardships and difficulties to immigrate to the United
States for quality education and freedom. (more)
HEALTH
Women,
minorities and
communities are united in our concerns. Issues such as obesity,
diabetes and heart disease are decimating our families and communities.
Cancer, HIV/Aids, Alzheimer, are creating extreme challenges and
difficulties for women. In most communities and families, women are the
primary caretakers for their households. When disease and illness
strikes, women take the brunt of the support and stress of juggling
schedules, arranging for support and taking time from work to care for
their families. (more)
ECONOMICS
On
a daily basis we
hear of more negative news about our economy and the pervasive effects
of a downturn in the economy. While government officials proclaim that
we are “technically not in a recession”, the
everyday
American knows that they're feeling the hardships caused by this
downturn. People are losing their jobs, which in turn affects every
part of their daily lives. Without a job, people can't make payments on
their homes, cars and maintain a good quality of life for their
children and their families. With the cost of oil, food and basic
staples increasing dramatically in the past 12 months, Americans are
feeling the crunch in their wallets and it's causing a longer-term
negative effect. (more)
ENVIRONMENT
As
more attention is being paid to the threats of global warming and the
climate crisis, we
need to understand what the issues are relative to our immediate
families and communities. We have all heard of the need to understand
that the climate changes are forcing major changes in the way we live
on this planet. However, the problem with many minorities and
communities is that the way the discussion is presented or framed,
doesn't relate directly to them. Policy people and organizations often
appeal to consumers by talking about reducing our carbon footprint, or
discussing ways to make sustainable energy sources a priority. They
don't realize that in our communities, people are more concerned with
making ends meet, getting their children the best education possible
and getting employed than making conscientious choices that will
preserve our planet's safety. (more)
Video produced by: Michel
Fraser
More than 350 women
and a contingent of supportive men came to engage with each other and
start a new national pipeline of multicultural women leaders in
business, politics, and media. From ten-year-old bloggers from an
all-girls middle school in Oakland to 80-year-old activists as well as
stay-at-home moms and college students, women came from across the
country to join in the first Engage Her Multicultural Women's
Leadership Conference April 25-26, 200
9
on the University
of California, Berkeley campus.
Our dreams were realized when right from the start, we saw women of all colors and originating from all continents of the world, open up their hearts and engage with each other in workshops that dealt with education, the economy, the environment, social justice, community building, breaking mediastereotypes, maternal profiling, and running for political office. Many women cried and said they did not want the conference to end, but it did end on a high note with the inspiring voices of Gloria Steinem, Dolores Huerta, Aileen Hernandez, and Yuri Kochiyama, who urged us all to continue to fight for our freedom to be treated as equals in our society and the world.
Because of the overwhelming response to the conference and support of Engage Her volunteers, speakers, and media, we are taking our conference on the road: any university, community college or high school that wants to host our conference should contact Tameeka Kelley at tkelley.kelley@gmail.com. We are putting finishing touches on our East Coast conference, September 26-27, 2009, at Barnard College/Columbia University in New York City. On October 24-25, 2009, we will host our first Middle School Girls Leadership Conference at the Julia Morgan School for Girls in Oakland, CA.
Click here for more details on our past conference.
Donate $25 and
Sponsor a Student
to our
Multicultural Leadership Conference
CONFERENCE
SPEAKERS
GLORIA STEINEM
GLORIA STEINEM
Gloria
Steinem is a feminist activist, organizer,writer and lecturer. Steinem
co-founded NewYork Magazine and Ms. Magazine where she continues to
serve as a consulting editor. She helped to found the Women's Action
Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, and Choice USA. She
was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women and helped
create Take Our Daughters to Work Day. She recently co-founded the
Women's Media Center and GreenStone Media. She has served on the board
of trustees of Smith College, and was a member of the Beyond Racism
Initiative. Ms. Steinem has received numerous awards and is the author
of multiple books. (more) DOLORES HUERTA
Dolores
Huerta is President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation for Community
Organizing. She co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar E. Chavez
and holds the emeritus positions of the UFW as Secretary Treasurer and
First Vice President. She is also an active member of the Fund for the
Feminist Majority. As the legislative advocate for the United Farm
Workers Union, she was instrumental in passing historic legislation
including Disability Insurance for farm workers, and voting ballots in
the
Spanish language, driver's licenses in the driver's ethnic language and
legalization for 1 million farm workers. (more)PRESS RELEASE
ENGAGE HER
WELCOMES ALL TO FIRST MULTICULTURAL WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
CONFERENCE
Tiered Pricing Opens Conference to All Communities
March 30, 2009 (Berkeley, CA) – Engage Her, Inc. – a non-profit organization focused on activating the voices of all women, particularly those from African American, Asian American Pacific Islander, Latino and other cultural communities – is offering economically adjusted admission costs for communities wishing to attend their first Multicultural Women’s Leadership Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, from April 25 to 26. More than 400 women from diverse communities across the U.S. have been invited to participate in workshops organized by their peers to find ways to create leaders for what in California is already the “New Majority” and will become the majority of the population in the rest of the nation by 2024.
Admission
to the conference will be $25 for students;
$75 for community organizers, non-profit organizations, and seniors
(62+); and
$150 for the general public. Sliding scale fees and limited financial
assistance for tickets are also available at info@engageher.org.
This pricing policy makes the conference economically feasible for the
very
audience of multicultural women it hopes to attract.
Mable
F. Yee, Engage Her founder & CEO, said the
April conference would kick off what is becoming a new
women’s movement. It is only fitting
then, that the two-day
event will be capped by “The Four
Legends of Feminism:” Gloria
Steinem, Dolores Huerta, Aileen
Hernandez, and
Yuri Kochiyama, at UC Berkeley’s Life Sciences
Auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m.,
April 26. This event is open to the public and tickets
– at $25 -- are available
at www.engageher.org.
The
conference will feature national women leaders
from all generations and cultures, including Gloria Steinem, co-founder
of the
Women’s Media Center and Ms. Foundation; Dolores Huerta,
cofounder of the Farm
Workers Union and the Dolores Huerta Foundation; Aileen Hernandez,
former
president of NOW, and coordinator of the Black Women Stirring the
Waters; Helen
Zia, author and feminist activist; Maria Teresa Petersen, executive
director of
VotoLatino.org; Marie Wilson, founder of The White House Project and
Lesley
Pinckney, general manager of Essence.com.
Conference co-sponsors include
the California Women’s
Legislative Caucus, the California Commission on the Status of Women,
Women’s
Media Center, The White House Project, Votolatino.org, the Dolores
Huerta
Foundation, NAACP, Momsrising.org, and The National Council for
Research on
Women. Lead conference sponsorship includes the Wallace Alexander
Gerbode
Foundation, with technical support from AirSet, Inc.
Engage Her was founded in 2008
by Yee, an
entrepreneur, activist, and film producer, with thirty years in the
technology
industry, where she specialized in companies that market to women. She
is the co-producer
of the
documentary, “Engage Her: Getting
minority women to lead and vote.” This film
interviews minority women and
chronicles the reasons why a significant percentage of them do not lead
and
vote.
“While multicultural
women are the New Majority’ in
California, men continue to dominate decision-making roles in the three
key
institutions that influence our nation: corporations, government, and
media,”
Yee said. She continued, “It is imperative that we create a
national pipeline
of qualified and competent multicultural women to assume the mantle of
leadership.”
Lesley
Pinckney, of Essence.com, commented, “This
conference starts a much-needed dialogue that has the ability to
rapidly
transform our entire society leveraging technology instead of one woman
at a
time -- which as we all know was the way it's worked since the
beginning."
CONFERENCE
SPONSORS
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY
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