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JMSG Partners with "Engage Her" for First Multicultural Women's Leadership Conference

Conference Opens a New Dialog Among All Women To Create Next Generation of Leaders

April 21, 2009 (Oakland, CA) – Julia Morgan School for Girls – the only all-girls middle school in the Easy Bay, prepares to send students to volunteer as bloggers and technology support for the first Multicultural Women’s Leadership Conference, to be held on April 25th and 26th at the University of California, Berkeley. The event will be hosted by Engage Her, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on activating the voices of all women, particularly those from African American, Asian American Pacific Islander, Latino and other cultural communities.

JMSG students gather with Mable Yee and Tameeka Kelley to learn more about Engage Her, and how to effectively blog during a workshop prior to the Multicultural Women’s Leadership Conference.
Top row, left to right: Julia S., Mable Yee (founder of Engage Her, Inc.), Cassidy V., Tameeka Kelley, Amanda C.-E.
bottom row: Cate V., Olivia K., Sidney C., Lindsay C., Molly P.

The conference will kick off a new women’s movement focused on including women in the political process. More than 400 women from diverse communities across the U.S. will participate in workshops designed to foster female political leaders at all levels of government. The JMSG girls represent the future leaders of this movement to bring the voices of young women into politics.

The two-day event will be capped by “The Four Legends of Feminism:” Gloria Steinem, Dolores Huerta, Aileen Hernandez, and Yuri Kochiyama, in conversation with two future women leaders at the Valley Life Sciences Building Auditorium on the UC Berkeley Campus, April 26th from 7:00-9:00pm.

For additional information about Engage Her and the Multicultural Women’s Leadership Conference, please go to http://www.engageher.org/. To learn about Julia Morgan School for Girls, please visit http://www.juliamorganschool.org/.

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