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Summit Details
The first summit on The United State of Women took place on June 14th, 2016. Below is more information on the speakers that participated in Washington, D.C. and the topics of the Solutions Seminars focused on specific gender issues.
Speakers
President Barack Obama
First Lady Michelle Obama
Vice President Joseph Biden
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Chair, White House Council on Women and Girls
Tina Tchen, Chief of Staff to the First Lady and Executive Director, White House Council on Women and Girls
Joyce Adolwa, Senior Director, CARE USA
Miki Agrawal, CEO, THINX
Luvvie Ajayi, Writer and Digital Strategist, Awesomely Luvvie
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Muslim Girl
Sue Ellen Allen, Author, Speaker, Activist and Ex-inmate, Global REINVENTION
Orubba Almansouri, Girls Education Activist
Sana Amanat, Director of Content & Character Development, Marvel Entertainment
Patricia Arquette
Nazanin Ash, Vice President, Policy and Advocacy, International Rescue Committee
Kristin Avery, Director, It’s On Us
Lindsay Avner, Founder & CEO, Bright Pink
Chernor Bah, Associate, Population Council
Erica Baker, Senior Engineer, Slack Technologies, Inc.
Nicole Baldwin, Founder, Biao Skincare
Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, CEO, Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts
Katarina Berg, CHRO, Spotify
Sayu Bhojwani, Founder & President, The New American Leaders Project
Cherno Biko, Co-Chair of YWAC NYC and Co-Founder of Black Trans Lives Matter
Ambassador Deborah Birx, U.S. Department of State
Sharon Block, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
Beverly Bond, CEO, Black Girls Rock!
Heather Boushey, Executive Director and Chief Economist, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Victor Boutros, Founding Director, Human Trafficking Institute
Keshia Bradford, Health Center Association of Nebraska
Bonnie Brandl, Director, National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL)
Ruby Bright, Executive Director and CAO, Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis
Connie Britton
Dr. Carol Brown, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jenn Brown, Executive Director, Civic Nation
Kimberly Bryant, Founder & Executive Director, Black Girls CODE
Warren Buffett, Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Maria Burns Ortiz, Co-Founder and CEO, 7 Generation Games
Kevin Burton, Assistant Director, NECA/IBEW Local Union #26 Joint Apprenticeship & Training
Sophia Bush
Rhonesha Byng, Founder & CEO, Her Agenda
Ambar Calvillo-Rivera, National Director of Partner Engagement and Outreach, Enroll America
Kelly Case, Program Manager for Sudan and South Sudan, Inclusive Security
Kathleen Causey, Elizabeth Dole Foundation
Neena Chaudhry, Director of Education, National Women’s Law Center
Anna Maria Chávez, CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA
Catherine Chen, Director of Investments, Humanity United
Tara Chklovski, Founder & CEO, Iridescent
Juliana Chugg, EVP Chief Brand Officer, Mattel, Inc.
Evelyn Chumbow, National Survivor Network
Annie Clark, Author and Executive Director of End Rape on Campus
Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, U.S. Small Business Administration
Sharon Cooper, Consultant, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Ambassador-at-Large Susan Coppedge, United States Department of State
Trish Costello, CEO, Portfolia
Ann Cotton, Founder & President, Camfed International
Shantavia Craigg, Crittenton Services of Greater Washington
Meredith Dank, Urban Institute
Jessica Davidson, It’s On Us Activist
Ariana Davis, United Food and Commercial Workers
Charmaine Davis, Chapter Director, 9 to 5
Puja Dhawan, Director, NoVo Foundation
Dazon Dixon Diallo, President & CEO, SisterLove, Inc.
Marley Dias, Founder, #1000BlackGirlBooks
Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green
Jaha Dukureh, Founder and CEO, Safe Hands for Girls
Maggie Dunne, Founder & CEO, Lakota Children’s Enrichment
General Ann Dunwoody, First 2 Four, LLC
Wanda Durant, Inspirational Speaker
Mark Edwards, Co-Founder, Upstream USA
Ginny Ehrlich, CEO, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
Kweilin Ellingrud, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Lisette Engel, Advocate, National Crittenton Foundation
Rebecca Epstein, Executive Director, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality
Charlene Espinoza, Founder & CEO, Bosh Bosh
Laurie Fabiano, President, Tory Burch Foundation
Ana Flores, Founder & CEO, Latina Bloggers Connect, Inc
Sarah Friar, CFO, Square, Inc.
Nely Galan, Author & Founder, SELF MADE
Helene Gayle, CEO, McKinsey Social Initiative
Deborah Gillis, President & CEO, Catalyst
Angela Glover Blackwell, President and CEO, PolicyLink
State Senator Gayle Goldin, Rhode Island State Senate
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Alison Gopnik, Professor, University of California at Berkeley
Elizabeth Gore, Entrepreneur in Residence, Dell, Inc
Lela Goren, Founder, Goren Group
Alex Gorsky, CEO & Chairman, Johnson & Johnson
Fatima Goss Graves, Senior Vice President for Program, National Women’s Law Center
Grissel Granados, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Carol Gstalder, SVP Consumer Insights North America, Nielsen
Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice
Julie Hanna, Executive Chair of the Board, Kiva
Bea Hanson, Principal Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women
Mariska Hargitay, Founder & President, Joyful Heart Foundation
Gina Harman, CEO, Accion U.S. Network
Carla Harris, Chair, National Women’s Business Council
Melissa Harris-Perry, Professor, Wake Forest University, Anna Julia Cooper Center
Sandra Henriquez, Executive Director, CALCASA
Mary Kay Henry, President, SEIU
Saanii Hernandez, Vice President, Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
Carolyn Hessler-Radelet, Director, Peace Corps
Marillyn Hewson, Chairman, President and CEO, Lockheed Martin
Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State
Neil Irvin, Executive Director, Men Can Stop Rape
Walter Isaacson, President & CEO, The Aspen Institute
Jeanne Jackson, President & CEO, The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham
Reverend Traci Jackson Antoine, Urban League of Eastern MA
Andrea James, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO, AARP
Sandra Johnson, CEO, SKJ Visioneering, LLC
Alexis Jones, Founder & CEO, ProtectHer & I AM THAT GIRL
Lara Kaufmann, Director of Public Policy, Girls Inc.
Kellie Keaton, Student, Horizon Science Academy Cleveland Middle School
Shaquil Keels, It’s On Us Activist
Piper Kerman, Author, Orange Is the New Black
Khaliya, The Khaliya and Thomas Ermacora Family Falkora Mental Health and Neurotech Initiative
Angélique Kidjo, Founder, Batonga Foundation and Ambassador, UNICEF
Billie Jean King, Founder, Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative & the Women’s Sports Foundation
Christina Koch, Astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Henriette Kolb, Head Gender Secretariat, International Finance Corporation
Sallie Krawcheck, Chair, Ellevate Network
Maria Teresa Kumar, President & CEO, Voto Latino
Amy Lansky, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, The White House
Lilly Ledbetter, Equal Pay Champion
Seina Lee, Johnson & Johnson
Robert Liodice, President and CEO, Association of National Advertisers (ANA)
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder, Chairwoman and CEO, Care.com
Jennifer Lockwood-Shabat, President and CEO, Washington Area Women’s Foundation
Nitzia Logothetis, Co-Founder, Seleni Institute
Erin Loos Cutraro, Co-Founder & CEO, She Should Run
Rafael López, Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Christina Lowery, CEO, Girl Rising
Latifa Lyles, Director, U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau
Grecia Magdaleno, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Nancy Mahon, Senior Vice President for Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Nia Malone, Girls Inc.
Rose Marcario, President & CEO, Patagonia
Governor Jack Markell, Delaware
Mary Marx, President & CEO, PACE Center for Girls, Inc
Nicole Mason, Executive Director of the Center for Research and Policy in the Public Interest, New York Women’s Foundation
Lauren May, Poet
Glen Mazzara, Co-Chair Diversity Advisory Group, Writers Guild of America West.
Shantia McCarthur, Girls Inc.
Raegan McDonald-Mosley, Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Matt McGorry
Tonia McMillian, Childcare Worker, SEIU
Ayodeji Megbope, CEO, No Left Overs
Debra Messing, Global Ambassador, Population Services International (PSI)
Carolyn Miles, CEO & President, Save the Children
Cathy Minehan, Co-Chair, Boston Women’s Workforce Council and Dean, Simmons College School of Management
Dr. Eric Minikel, Broad Institute
Mary Molina, Founder, Lola Granola
Michelle Monasterios Ramirez, Girls Inc.
Lana “MC Lyte” Moorer, Founder, Hip Hop Sisters Foundation
Monique Morris, Co-Founder & President, National Black Women’s Justice Institute
Jewel Mullen, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dorothee Mulumba, High School Student
Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, The White House
Evelyn Murphy, Co-Chair, Boston Women’s Workforce Council and President, The WAGE Project Inc.,
Molly Moon Neitzel, CEO, Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream
Romy Newman, President & Co-Founder, Fairygodboss
Vivian Nixon, Executive Director, College and Community Fellowship
Mpumi Nobiva, Graduate Student
Michele Norris, Founding Director, the Race Card Project
Kakenya Ntaiya, Founder Kakenya Center for Excellence
Soledad O’Brien, CEO, Starfish Media Group
Ana Oliveira, President & CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation
Brittany Packnett, Executive Director, Teach For America-St. Louis
Zaa’Raa Padgett, Girls Inc.
Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, President, The National Crittenton Foundation
Deborah Parker, Native American Activist
Cindy Pedraza, Business Manager, CocoAndre Chocolatier
Andrea Pedraza, Owner, CocoAndre Chocolatier
U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader
Sandra Pepera, Director, National Democratic Institute
Secretary Thomas Perez, U.S. Department of Labor
Monica Phromsavanh, CEO & Co-Founder, ModaBox
Andrea Pino, Author and Co-Founder, End Rape on Campus
Amy Poehler, Co-Founder & President, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Director, Caring Across Generations
Dina Habib Powell, Head of Goldman Sachs’ Impact Investing Business and President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, Goldman Sachs
Kemba Smith Pradia, Author, Public Speaker, Criminal Justice Advocate, Kemba Smith Foundation
Catherine Pratt, Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court STAR Court
Ayanna Pressley, Boston City Councilor At-Large, City of Boston
Lisa Price, Founder, Carol’s Daughter
Secretary Penny Pritzker, U.S. Department of Commerce
Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
Ginny Quillen, Systems Engineer, Rockwell Collins
Kavita Ramdas, Senior Advisor, Ford Foundation
Matthew Randazzo, CEO, National Math and Science Initiative
Vasu Reddy, Policy Counsel, National Partnership for Women & Families
Shonda Rhimes, Content Creator, ShondaLand
Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Elena Rios, President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow
Shadarria Robinson, Student, Horizon Science Academy Cleveland Middle School
General Lori Robinson, NORAD and USNORTHCOM
Estefany Rodriguez, Poet
Lee Roper-Batker, President and CEO, Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
Deborah Rosado Shaw, SVP Chief Global Diversity & Engagement Officer, PepsiCo
Angela Rose, Founder & CEO, PAVE: Promoting Awareness | Victim Empowerment
Lynn Rosenthal, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, National Domestic Violence Hotline
Christina Ross, Teacher, City Neighbors High School
Cecilia Rouse, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, CEO, MomsRising
Jessica Sager, Executive Director, All Our Kin, Inc.
Bamby Salcedo, President & CEO, The TransLatin@ Coalition
Alicia Santiago, Science Advisor &Latino Engagement Specialist, Twin Cities Public TV
Kwadwo Sarpong, Founder, African Research Academies for Women
Reshma Saujani, Founder & CEO, Girls Who Code
Catherine Schreiber Rouhani, Chief Operating Officer, Women’s Foundation of California
Steve Schwab, Executive Director, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation
Kimberly Scott, Executive Director of COMPUGIRLS, Arizona State University
Allison Scuriatti, Executive Director, FINCA International
Meena Seshamani, Office of Health Reform, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Ritu Sharma, Senior Gender Advisor, International Youth Foundation
Pamela Shifman, Executive Director, NoVo Foundation
Elizabeth Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Anar Simpson, Special Advisor for the Office of the Chair, Women, Girls and Technology, Mozilla
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder, theBoardlist
Shivani Siroya, CEO & Founder, InVenture
Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America
Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority Foundation
Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, the White House
Megan Smith, Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Stacy Smith, Founder & Director, Media Diversity, & Social Change Initiative and Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Brenda Smith, Professor, American University, Washington College of Law
Joanne Smith, Executive Director, Girls for Gender Equity and Co-Chair, New York Young Women’s Initiative
Anaya Spencer, Student, Horizon Science Academy Cleveland Middle School
Jaye Spiro, Grandmaster, Mejishi Martial Arts, Inc.
Gloria Steinem, Feminist Activist
Debbie Sterling, Founder & CEO, GoldieBlox
Caryl Stern, President & CEO, U.S. Fund for UNICEF
Mayor Marilyn Strickland, City of Tacoma
Michele Sullivan, President, Caterpillar Foundation
Neera Tanden, President & CEO, Center for American Progress
Gina Tesla, Director of Corporate Citizenship, IBM
Kimberly Thomas, Home Care Worker, SEIU
Fulani Thrasher, Access Living
Anne Toth, Vice President of Policy, Security & Compliance, Slack Technologies, Inc.
Patti Tototzintle, CEO, Casa de Esperanza
Mikaila Ulmer, Founder & CEO, Me & the Bees Lemonade
Aniela Unguresan, Co-Founder, EDGE Certified Foundation
Nina Vaca, Chairman & CEO, Pinnacle Group
Yasmin Vafa, Executive Director, Rights4Girls
Mary Valadez, Senior Grants Director, Dallas Women’s Foundation
Dr. Sonia Vallabh, Broad Institute
Jayla VanHorn, Student, Horizon Science Academy Cleveland Middle School
Betzaida Ventura, Personal Care Attendant, SEIU
Alexa von Tobel, CEO & Founder, LearnVest
Judy Vredenburgh, President & CEO, Girls Inc.
Quentin Walcott, Co-Executive Director, CONNECT NYC
Meredith Walker, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
Carla Walker-Miller, President and CEO, Walker-Miller Energy Services, LLC
Kerry Washington
Mark Weinberger, Global Chairman & CEO, EY
Jess Weiner, CEO, Talk to Jess
Liz Weintraub, Advocacy Specialist, Association of University Centers on Disabilities
Kim Wells, Executive Director, Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
Jennifer Welter, First Female NFL Coach, Jenny Football
Sherrie Westin, Executive Vice President, Global Impact and Philanthropy, Sesame Workshop
Melanie Whelan, CEO, SoulCycle
Chris White, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Marcy Whitebook, Director, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Judith Williams, Global Head of Diversity, Dropbox, Inc.
Kelly Williams, Senior Advisor, GCM Grosvenor
Dr. Lori Wilson, Associate Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine
Jamia Wilson, Executive Director, Women, Action, & The Media
Oprah Winfrey, CEO, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
Rebecca Winthrop, Director, Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution
Kym Worthy, Prosecutor, Wayne County
Natasha Yakanda, Crittenton Services of Greater Washington
Meghan Yap, It’s On Us Activist
Miriam Yeung, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
ReShonda Young, Owner, Popcorn Heaven LLC
Teresa Younger, President & CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women
Jurnee Smollett-Bell Says “There Is No Time’s Up Without Women Of Color” During Time’s Up Panel At SXSW
Ever since Time’s Up was launched at the Golden Globes, it has proven to be a movement that is more than wearing all-black on the red carpet and an accessory you pin to the lapel of your tuxedo jacket. At only two months old, the movement and legal defense fund continues to spread its message at SXSW with the “TIME’S UP! Shifting the Imbalance of Power” panel, with the chair of the organization, Tina Chen, National Women’s Law Center’s Fatima Goss Graves, as well as actress and activist Jurnee Smollett-Bell.
“This is not a moment in time,” said panel moderator and Time’s Up founding co-chair Hilary Rosen. “This is a movement-forever cause. It is up to all of us to make people believe we are not going to forget about this.”
Graves says that since Time’s Up launched, they have been contacted by over 1,900 people — and it continues to grow. In addition, 500 attorneys have signed on to provide free legal consultation and take cases. Over $21 million from 20,000 people around the country and the world has been donated. The amount may seem like a lot, but Graves says, “$21 million is not enough — I know that’s a controversial thing to say.”
Smollett-Bell adds that those accused sexual predators and assaulters have “mountains of legal support and sources” that make it difficult and expensive for victims to fight against.
“We need to match their resources,” said Tchen, former Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama.
Graves echoes Tchen and encourages the development of the movement, saying that they need to grow the fund and recruit more attorneys and garner resources to battle those who want to continue to silence victims.
Smollett-Bell, who has been in front of the camera since she was a 10-month old, points out how this started way before Harvey Weinstein and shared her own experiences, saying that she was harassed on set before she was even a teenager. She felt that there wasn’t a place where she could go or do something about it. “It really didn’t matter,” she admitted. She said that it, unfortunately, became a condition to her work — and it was the same for many other women.
“Enough is enough. We can’t allow this to continue,” she said. “This is about power and shifting the balance of paper.” She says that the majority of industries have solely straight white men in power and “until that changes, we are going to continue being on the receiving end.”
Smollett-Bell, alongside other actresses, has become an outspoken voice in the movement. In particular, she, along with many actresses and women of color, have formed a group under the Time’s Up umbrella called WOC (pronounced “woke”) which addresses the different experiences women of color face when it comes to harassment.
“Women of color are in the center hub of Time’s Up,” said Smollett-Bell. “There is no Time’s up without women of color. There’s no Time’s Up without trans women or women with differing abilities — we’re so focused on that.”
She points out that with every single step, Time’s Up is thinking about intersectionality, because the workplace is for every woman. She gives the example of Laverne Cox, who is a trans woman. “I will never know how that is,” she says, stressing WOC and Time’s Up drive for the inclusion of all those affected by harassment.
“We didn’t realize how conditioned we were to accept it,” said the former Underground actress. She says that women are often isolated on set because they are the only female with a speaking role. Because of this, they didn’t have time to see and talk to each other about their “me too” moments. “When people started telling their story, it was powerful,” she said.
“We’ve been at this work for half a century, yet here we are,” says Tchen. “It’s important to know that sexual harassment is a symptom that happens when you don’t have diverse workforces. We have to pay attention to keep advancing women and people of color.
She adds, “When you have a diverse workforce in addition to straight white men, you will have a place that’s safe and equitable for work.”
Rosen remarks that farm workers reached out to Time’s Up and shared their similar struggles for equality and harassment in the workplace. Their experiences lined up with the fund’s mission, and Smollett-Bell says that the letter they received from these workers outside of Hollywood was “a catalyst.” She said that the group felt a solidarity with their sisters across industries.
“There’s a privilege and burden that we hold,” said Smollett-Bell. “People pay attention to the Natalie Portmans and the Tracee Ellis Rosses of the world. But in this moment, we felt empowered and privileged that they reached out across industries.”
She punctuated, “The patriarchy will fall because we are in this together.”