RECORDINGS OF PAST EVENTS
April 2021
Tuesday, April 20 – Advocacy Chapter Webinar
Time: 7:00 pm EASTERN
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
For more information on our advocacy program, visit here.
Wednesday, April 21 – Advocacy Chapter Webinar
Time: 9:00 pm EASTERN
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
For more information on our advocacy program, visit here.
May 2021
Tuesday, May 4 – We Give Summit: A Celebration of Collective Giving.
This Philanthropy Together event kicks off on May 4 with subsequent sessions held on Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout the month. Join giving circle members, philanthropy experts, community leaders, and social impact newcomers to forge new bonds and strengthen our work towards community change. Click here for more info. Together Women Rise members receive $20 off the three Pay-As-You-Wish options: $50, $100, $250 by using the code DINING.
Thursday, May 6 – National Virtual Chapter Meeting
We will discuss our May projects with Terrewode in Uganda and Grandmother Project in Senegal. Guest speaker will be Bonnie Ruder, Executive Director, and Carolyn Anderman, Board President, of Terrewode, our Featured Grantee.
Time: 8:00 pm EASTERN
Where: Through the virtual meeting platform Zoom. Join with your computer, tablet, or mobile phone. (Note: It is best to join by computer so that we can see each other as well as any visuals.)
REGISTER HERE
NOTE: AFTER REGISTERING, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH THE MEETING LINK. IF YOU DO NOT SEE THIS EMAIL, PLEASE CHECK YOUR JUNK OR SPAM FOLDER, OR EMAIL INFO@TOGETHERWOMENRISE.ORG.
Monday, May 10 NEW DATE – Book Club
Book: In the Time of the Butterflies
Author: Julia Alvarez
Summary: Historical fiction. Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures–known as “las mariposas,” or “the butterflies,” in the underground–as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.
Virtual Discussion: Featuring author Julia Alvarez NEW DATE Monday, May 10, 2021 at 7 pm. Register here.
NOTE: AFTER REGISTERING, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH THE MEETING LINK. IF YOU DO NOT SEE THIS EMAIL, PLEASE CHECK YOUR JUNK OR SPAM FOLDER, OR EMAIL INFO@TOGETHERWOMENRISE.ORG.
Tuesday, May 18 – Advocacy Chapter Webinar
Time: 7:00 pm EASTERN
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
For more information on our advocacy program, visit here.
Wednesday, May 19 – Advocacy Chapter Webinar
Time: 9:00 pm EASTERN
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
For more information on our advocacy program, visit here.
June 2021
Thursday, June 3 – National Virtual Chapter Meeting
We will discuss our June projects with Creamos in Guatemala and RIPPLE Africa in Malawi. Special speakers TBD.
Time: 8:00 pm EASTERN
Where: Through the virtual meeting platform Zoom. Join with your computer, tablet, or mobile phone. (Note: It is best to join by computer so that we can see each other as well as any visuals.)
REGISTER HERE
NOTE: AFTER REGISTERING, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH THE MEETING LINK. IF YOU DO NOT SEE THIS EMAIL, PLEASE CHECK YOUR JUNK OR SPAM FOLDER, OR EMAIL INFO@TOGETHERWOMENRISE.ORG.
Tuesday, June 15 – Advocacy Chapter Webinar
Time: 7:00 pm EASTERN
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
For more information on our advocacy program, visit here.
Wednesday, June 16 – Advocacy Chapter Webinar
Time: 9:00 pm EASTERN
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
For more information on our advocacy program, visit here.
Monday, June 21 (tentative) – Book Club
Book: A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Author: Melissa Fleming
Check out her TED Talk, “Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive.”
Summary: Doaa and her family leave war-torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run-down ships to seek asylum overseas and begin a new life.
After four days at sea, their boat is sunk by another boat filled with angry men shouting threats and insults. With no land in sight and surrounded by bloated, floating corpses, Doaa is adrift with a child’s inflatable water ring around her waist, while two little girls cling to her neck. Doaa must stay alive for them. She must not lose strength. She must not lose hope.
September 2021
Thursday, September 9 (tentative) – Book Club
Book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Summary: In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
November 2021
Wednesday, November 3 (tentative) – Book Club
Book: Standing in the Way: From Trafficking Victim to Human Rights Activist
Author: Anjali Tamang & Sarah Symons (DFW grantee Her Future Coalition)
Summary: This compelling memoir shares Anjali’s incredible story of being trafficked at age twelve from her village in Nepal to the red light areas of Kolkata, India. Despite enduring the worst abuse imaginable, today Anjali is working to combat trafficking and protect the next generation of girls in her community. She is able to do so because of the help and healing she has received since being rescued in 2008. The stories of the courageous people who freed her and helped in her recovery are woven into the book alongside personal recollections and insights. This book explores the root causes of human trafficking and the factors in Anjali’s family and community that made her vulnerable. It describes vividly her journey to India as a young child, and the large, complex network of traffickers. brothel owners and madams who were involved in selling, transporting and, exploiting her. The book sensitively portrays the difficult life of a young girl in a brothel. It is suitable for readers 15 and up.Anjali was eventually rescued, and the book tells that part of the story from the perspective of the rescuers as well as the girls themselves. Standing in the Way describes the innovative counseling and loving care that Anjali received after being rescued, which enabled her to recover from her trauma, develop her uniquely positive world view, and become a leader and activist. Anjali was able to return to Nepal, return to school and make up the many lost years of education. Now in college, she is planning to go back to her village and open a school and anti-trafficking charity that will prevent other girls in her village from having to suffer as she did. While child sex trafficking is a difficult subject, the book is ultimately hopeful and inspiring.
January 2022
Monday, January 24 (tentative) – Book Club
Book: The Girl with the Louding Voice
Author: Abi Daré
Summary: The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams.
Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same.
Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.