RECORDINGS OF PAST EVENTS
September 2021
Tuesday, September 21 – 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, September 22 – 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.
October 2021
Thursday, October 7 – Monthly National Webinar
Maggie Reiyia Koshal
Photo Credit: Marianne Nord
We will discuss our October projects with Nashulai Maasai Conservancy in Kenya and HealthRight International in Uganda.
Our very special guests will be:
Maggie Reiyia Koshal — Director of Women’s Empowerment and Education, Nashulai Maasai Conservancy (joining us from Kenya)
Margaret Atwood — internationally renowned novelist and poet, and longtime activist for social justice and for the environment. Most recently widely recognized as the author of The Handmaid’s Tale (now a major television series) and its sequel, The Testaments.
Theresa Castillo — Chief Program Officer, HealthRight International
Margaret Atwood
Photo Credit: Luis Mora
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.)
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, October 19 – 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, October 20 – 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.
November 2021
Wednesday, November 3 – Book Club
Book: Standing in the Way: From Trafficking Victim to Human Rights Activist
Author: Anjali Tamang & Sarah Symons (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.
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.)
Thursday, November 4 – Monthly National Webinar
We will discuss our November projects with Sunsar Maya in Nepal and Bond Street Theatre in Afghanistan. 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.)
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, November 16 – 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, November 17 – 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.
December 2021
Thursday, December 2 – Monthly National Webinar
We will discuss our December projects with Komera in Rwanda and BlinkNow Foundation in Nepal. 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.)
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, December 21 – 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, December 22 – 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.
January 2022
Monday, January 24 – 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.