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Jean M. Geran and Araceli Alonso, co directors of the UW-STREETS initiative, lead the session to introduce UW-Madison’s new anti-trafficking initiative that seeks to support local and global work to end trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation. Through education and action research, STREETS is grounded in the perspectives and preferences of survivors, becoming a powerful…

Dr. Tererai Trent is an internationally recognized voice for quality education and women’s empowerment. Oprah called Trent her favorite guest and invested $1.5 million to help build a school in Trent’s home village in Zimbabwe. Trent’s talk is one of three free public lectures and three open plenary sessions during the 2016 Summit on Women,…

The African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites you to BIG STORIES + CLOSE (UP) RESEARCH: Health and Science in the African World on April 15-16, 2016. Bringing together a diverse group of scholars, this conference aims to explore the relationship between deeply grounded research and the larger narratives we tell about health and science…

Dr. Maria Cotera, Dr. Andrea “Tess” Arenas and filmmaker Linda Garcia Merchant will discuss their efforts to recover the histories of Chicana and Latina activists through an innovative mix of digital media, oral history and archival collection that centers cross generational feminist praxis. The plenary session, which is open free to the public is part…

To Change the Future of Women is a call to women and men, world leaders, influencers and individuals to commit to the Power of 1 action of change for the future of women. Whether One woman or One man helps another woman, when we align our collaborative efforts for scale, together we create the greatest…