Global Innovation Dialogue™
What if…
- The real potential of your organization and its employees is limitless?
- The exploration of different perspectives, increased levels of collaboration and improved networking are keys to reaching that success?
- The larger the context, the more powerful the creative thinking and the bolder the actions?
A Global Innovation Dialogue provides a 90-minute forum in which participants explore challenging, and sometimes counter-intuitive, ideas in a small group setting. Through a carefully facilitated program, we create a place for authentic communication, unleashing of passion, and commitment to action. If you want your teams to fully appreciate the idea of “Think Globally, Act Locally,” contact Bonita Banducci, banducci@genderwork.com, for more details.
Monday, May 4 2009, 4:30 - 7:00 PM
From Outrage to Courage
Women Taking Action for Health and Justice
or as the authoress says -- "Love as a Force for Social Justice."
Speaker: Anne Firth Murray, Founder of Global Fund for Women
"Anne Firth Murray's new book is three things at once: a catalogue of abuses, an analysis of their causes and consequences, and a chronicle of courage under fire."
From the Foreword by Paul Farmer
Anne describes this outrage as "the darkness of persistent poverty and the low status of women to the scandalous injustices that ravage the health of poor women in many poorer countries."
And, there is another side to this story. Change is possible, brought on by the courage of women to shine a light in the darkness and take action. These efforts are represented in Anne's book by the poetry of women and the work of women's groups. They are expressed through the images of the koru used throughout the book. As a woman from New Zealand, Anne is familiar with the koru. In the Maori language of New Zealand koru symbolizes not only the unfolding of the fern frond striving toward the light, but also a new beginning, renewal, and hope for the future.
In this searing cradle-to-grave review, Murray tackles health issues from prenatal care to challenges faced by aging women. Looking at how gender inequality affects basic nutrition, Murray makes clear the issues are political more than they are medical. Anne covers sex-selective abortions, millions of girls who are "disappeared," 90 million girls who do not go to school, HIV/AIDS spreading fastest among adolescent girls and women facing unique health challenges.
In an inspiring look From Outrage to Courage shows how women are organizing the world over. Women's courage to transform their situations and communities provides inspiration and models for change. From China to India, from Indonesia to Kenya, Anne Firth Murray takes readers on a whirlwind tour of devastation-and resistance.
Anne Firth Murray, is the Founding President of the Global Fund for Women and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. She is the author of the highly acclaimed PARADIGM FOUND: Leading and Managing for Positive Change.
Murray was educated at the University of California and New York University in economics, political science, and public administration, with a focus on international health policy and women's reproductive health. She has worked at the United Nations as a writer, taught in Hong Kong and Singapore, and spent several years as an editor with Oxford, Stanford, and Yale University presses. For the past twenty-five years, she has worked in the field of philanthropy, serving as a consultant to many foundations.
Date and Time:
May 4, 2009
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Registration
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Program
Location: Santa Clara University
California Mission Room
Benson Center
Click here for campus map and directions
Registration Information:
Through Web site before February 5 -- $20; onsite, day of event -- $25.
Corporate sponsorships, including a table of 8, available at $300. We appreciate EMC as a corporate sponsor.
Faculty, staff, and students are free. Please email Bonita Banducci banducci@genderwork.com if you wish to attend.
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