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8:30 AM
Check in, Continental Breakfast, Networking
9:00 AM
Welcome
Vice President of Academic Affairs; Supervisor Linda Parks, Ventura County Board of Supervisors
9:15 AM
Women on the Edge: Gendered Political Economy Past and Present
Marie Francois, PhD, and Sunghee Choi, PhD, CSUCI
(click here for the slides from this presentation)
10:45 PM
Small Group Discussions:
- Budget Crisis Impact on Social Services
- Foreclosures & Bankruptcy
- Retirement Fund Loss
- Loss of Job and/or Benefits
- Domestic Crisis
How do these issues affect women?
What is being done in Ventura County?
What more could be done in Ventura County?
11:30 AM
Lunch & Keynote Speaker:
Lilly Ledbetter
1:00 PM
Skills and Action Workshops:
- Disenfranchised Women: Raquel Montes, CA Youth Connection; Selena Felipe, Lideres Campesinas; Lisa Conley, Prototypes
- Transforming the Culture of Poverty: Ann Sobel, consultant and veteran nonprofit group manager
- Power Organizing for Women (POW): Beatriz Garcia, Sr. Organizer, CAUSE
- Policy Solutions: Jill Martinez, Congress of California Seniors; Cathy Brudnicki, Ventura County Homeless Coalition
- Nontraditional Quality Jobs & Entrepreneurship for Women: Socorro Lopez-Hansen, Community Action VC; Karon Wright, The Greater Contribution
2:30 PM
Workshop Action Reports
3:15 PM
Closing Remarks
Fabulous door prizes awarded in the afternoon. Must be present to win.
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