Colleen Kill & Pat Payne
Barb Collins & Beth Ellen Holimon
Together Women Rise’s new strategic plan focuses on achieving global gender equality, increasing our impact on women and girls around the world, and building a highly-engaged and inclusive global community.
Pat Payne & Chris King
Calling all activists! A rousing session on how YOUR voice could really make a difference in 5 minutes or less. We share alarming trends on how the COVID pandemic has pushed back progress impacting women and girls disproportionately. Learn more about how to stand up and speak out on behalf of silent marginalized women and girls.
Melinda Pedersen, Cynthia Sawtell & Mary Force
This is a working session, as we share favorite practices for both in and between meetings. And yes! We tackle virtual meeting fatigue during COVID.
Julie Kassan
Together Women Rise has more to offer! Have a special interest in cooking, travel, books, fair trade? Learn about these groups and Together Women Rise volunteer opportunities to further engage your passion.
We are very fortunate to have Sarah Symons the Founder and Executive Director of Her Future Coalition, an international non-profit and social enterprise fighting human trafficking and other severe gender violence with shelter, education and employment. Her Future Coalition was the Together Women Rise feature Grantee in March 2019. Sarah has some very exciting news to share with Together Women Rise about the impact of our grant with one of our recipients in Kolkata. Over the past 12 years, Her Future Coalition has helped over 5000 women and children in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Thailand to get out of slavery and exploitation, and to build safe, independent and successful lives.
Symons’ book – This is No Ordinary Joy –available on Amazon.com, tells the story of her work with trafficking survivors and how it has transformed her life. Sarah’s TED-X talk, ‘Living Heroically’ shares insights learned from survivors on recovering from trauma and living an epic life. Her new book, ‘Standing in the Way’, co-written with one of the survivors in the program, will be released Jan. 11, 2021 and is available for pre-order on Amazon.
Pat Payne & Cynthia Sawtell
Learn about exciting and new ways you can give back to Together Women Rise to make a difference. We will go shopping and explore some “fun” raisers for you and your employer, family and friends.
Melinda Pedersen & Mary Force
In this working session we explore creating an opt-in Chapter Leader network to directly access and share expertise, collaborate across chapters and make new friends.
Kay Yoder has had the extraordinary privilege of participating in the Together Women Rise process from both sides, serving as a chapter co-leader and regional mentor, as well as a Together Women Rise grant recipient. She is the US Director of Operations for Ripple Africa, a grassroots nonprofit working in Malawi, Africa, whose mission is guided by the philosophy of providing a hand UP not a hand out. With projects ranging from education to healthcare to the environment, Ripple Africa’s Changu Changu Moto fuel efficient cookstove was the featured project in May 2015 and is currently the sustained grantee. Kay considers herself very fortunate to witness firsthand the merging of her two passions, Ripple Africa and Together Women Rise, and will be sharing about the impact Together Women Rise has had on the lives of women and girls in rural Malawi.
Colleen Kill & Pat Payne
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