Everyone Has Followers: Leveraging Technology to Make the Revolution Go Down
EMILY MAY
This interactive keynote address is designed to inspire young leaders to step it up and start changing the world. Emily May, who launched Hollaback! at the age of 24 and became executive director at 29, will share her personal story of how she came to lead an international movement. She’ll talk about being told she was “too young”, that sexual harassment “didn’t matter” and “would never end”, and get students to share their own stories in real time using cell phone technology. Emily offers a bold new vision for a world without campus harassment, and teaches that the elevation of all of our voices is the key to changing the world.
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bullish on generation y: why this is the most exciting generation of women in decades
janet hanson
Janet Hanson has a glorious history of investing in Gen Y women. She was an early investor in LearnVest (founder & CEO Alexa von Tobel interned with Janet during the summers of 2005 and 2006) and has made it her mission to invest her time, money, and passion in this extraordinary generation of uber-talented women. Janet will talk about her investment "track record" in Gen Y women through her leadership as the founder & CEO of 85 Broads, a global network of over 30,000 trailblazing women worldwide. One of the women she is proudest of: Shannon Harrington (Stanford '11) who was an 85 Broads summer intern before graduating!
learning on the job from the bottom-up
saima hasan
Saima founded Roshni when she was a 21 year old junior at Stanford and has since worked to grow Roshni to empower over 5,000 girls across 12 districts in India to break the cycle of poverty. Saima will share her experiences learning on the job how to secure funding, cultivate meaningful partnerships and achieve growth and scale of an international nonprofit - straight out of college with no previous business experience. She will address the challenges and rewards of building an organization organically from the bottom up, driven and shaped by the voices of its beneficiaries.
samasource: getting things done
leila janah
Come hear the real story of how the award-winning non-profit Samasource was founded and find out how Samasource survived during its most rapid and tumultuous period of growth: the start-up years. Learn from Leila Janah, Samasource Founder and CEO, who went from being a student of international development and budding travel writer to a world-renowned technology leader. Beyond the media hype and the awards Samasource has received in its relatively short existence for their global poverty solution, Leila will share with us her experiences of the fast and furious, iterative process of building a company with real revenue streams. Beyond inspiring to be driven by social mission, Leila will delve into the fundamental secret of social entrepreneurship: survival hinges on getting things done and never giving up. And because there is no roadmap, recognizing that getting lost along the way is usually when you end up finding yourself… and your product.
A Victory for One is a Victory for All
peta lindsay
Peta Lindsay was the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is a young, African American woman who ran a vigorous, nationwide campaign demanding jobs, healthcare, housing and education for all. At age 27, she ran for President . At one time women and most Black people could not even vote much less run for president. Today, young people are still ineligible to govern the United States even though young people fill up the ranks of the military, the prisons and many workplaces. Peta ran as a young Black women to give voice to the need to empower this huge sector of the population that is impacted by government policy but is still shut out from policy making because of anachronistic laws. Through her work with the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition and the PSL, Lindsay has been a leading organizer in nationwide actions against war, racism, sexism and inequality, for over a decade. Come hear Lindsay discuss the historical power of the mass movement in the streets and the important legacy of young women’s leadership in those movements. From civil rights to women’s rights to labor rights and the anti-war struggle, young women have always been at the forefront of the movements that make history. Lindsay will also discuss her experiences as an organizer and the crucial tasks facing all of us who seek to make history in the streets, today.
GOLDIEBLOX: BREAKING INTO MALE-DOMINATED FIELDS FROM ENGINEERING TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO THE TOY INDUSTRY
debbie sterling
Debbie Sterling, a female engineer (Stanford 05’), is the founder of GoldieBlox, a toy company out to inspire the next generation of female engineers. In just one short year, GoldieBlox has grown from a homemade prototype to an international toy brand featured in countless press outlets including Forbes, TIME, The Guardian, The Atlantic, BBC and The Boston Globe. Debbie will share her experiences of engineering a toy from the female perspective. She will also share her story of navigating the male-dominated worlds of engineering, entrepreneurship and toys.