The Stanford Women’s Community Center hosts the annual Gender, Equity, and Justice Summit. Over the years, the summit has become an annual event to celebrate leaders who are raising awareness of issues related to equity in their fields and working to make change in their lives and communities.
The Gender, Equity, and Justice Summit 2022 will be focused around the idea of lifelong feminism and activism, and what it means for young people today to lead lives and careers centered around a passion for social justice while also practicing care for their communities. In particular, how can we approach the coming months emerging from a global pandemic and a year filled with turmoil and injustice with compassion, care, self and community love to heal? We aim to recognize a diverse set of experiences of what activism looks like in practice, and empower participants to continue fighting for justice, all the while encouraging healing and love.
The Gender, Equity, and Justice Summit 2022 will be focused around the idea of lifelong feminism and activism, and what it means for young people today to lead lives and careers centered around a passion for social justice while also practicing care for their communities. In particular, how can we approach the coming months emerging from a global pandemic and a year filled with turmoil and injustice with compassion, care, self and community love to heal? We aim to recognize a diverse set of experiences of what activism looks like in practice, and empower participants to continue fighting for justice, all the while encouraging healing and love.
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The Stanford Women’s Community Center presents: Gender Equity & Justice Summit 2022: Healing and Learning for Self- and Community Care *Featuring Cat Brooks and other local activists Sunday, April 24, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Bechtel International Center Courtyard RSVP at bit.ly/GEJS2022 *Space is limited - first come first serve Contact Jenna Jung (jennakj@stanford.edu) with any questions. Co-Sponsored by The Stanford Fund |
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GEJS SUMMIT ARCHIVES
Check out the videos below to view our 2021 Gender, Equity, and Justice Summit, featuring a conversation with Actress, Activist, Model, and star of FX TV show "Pose", Dominique Jackson and a panel of inspiring local activists to share their wisdom, stories, and journey to activism with the Stanford community and beyond.
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Past Conferences (from SWLC to GEJS)
The Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference served as an incredible program for the WCC community for 13 wonderful years (for past websites, see below). This program invited students, faculty, staff and alumni of Stanford to come together to explore gender equity within a wide range of fields, industries. Based on student feedback and to broaden the conversations on gender inclusion and equity, the WCC announced in 2019 that the SWLC will be re-imagined as the Stanford Gender, Equity, and Justice Summit.
Speakers from past years have included:
Dominique Jackson (actress, author, model, star of POSE on FX)
Ericka Huggins, author, poet, educator, Black Panther Party leader)
Favianna Rodriguez (transdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and activist)
Danica Roem (delegate for the 13th District of Virginia)
Dr. Lilly Lamboy (co-founder of the Stanford Diversity in Leadership Initiative)
Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye (28th chief justice of the State of California)
A-lan Holt (film director, author, Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford)
Debora L. Spar (president of Barnard College)
Ai-jen Poo (director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance)
Saima Hasan (Founder of Roshni)
Emily May (Co-Founder of Hollaback!, leader in anti-street harassment movement)
Leila Janah (Founder of Samasource)
Jessica Greer Morris (Girl Be Heard)
Debbie Sterling (Founder of Goldieblox)
Persis Drell (9th Dean of Stanford's School of Engineering)
Kavita Ramdas (former CEO, Global Fund for Women)
Kathy Levinson (former president, E*Trade)
Priya Haji (founder, World of Good)
Reem Rahim (founder, Numi Tea)
Whitney Smith (founder, Girls for a Change)
Peta Lindsay (2012 presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation)
Victoria Hale (founder, OneWorld Health)
Nancy Milliken, MD (associate dean of admissions at USCF Medical School, director of the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health)
April Chou (founder, New Schools Venture Fund)
Aimee Allison (Founder and President of She The People)
Telle Whitney (CEO and President of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology)
and so many more!
Learn more about past GEJSs:
2019 Summit: Tomorrow's World is Ours to Build
Learn more about past SWLCs:
2018 Conference: Dare to be Powerful: Our Strengths, Our Vision, Our Community
2017 Conference: Courage to Bloom: Embracing Your Roots and Planting Seeds for Change
2016 Conference: Hear My Voice
2015 Conference: Still I Rise: Breaking Barriers, Building Change
2014 Conference: Add Your Piece: Redefining Success Individually
2013 Conference: Next Generation