Empowerment Conference Videos

The Spring Empowerment Conference, started in 2010, seeks to provide resources for and promote discussion of issues relevant to the life choices of graduate women. The planning committee comprises women from across MIT departments and invites speakers that are role models for graduate women and/or experts on how to become those role models. Events have included a lecture on implicit bias, a panel on collaboration, a workshop on online personal branding, a panel of "power couples," and a panel on modern feminism.

2012 Empowerment Conference

This page includes the following videos:

  • Keynote Address: "Digital Empowerment for the Real World: Using Social Media, Creating Social Change" (Latoya Peterson)
  • "Designing with Her in Mind" (Susan Fabry)
  • Panel Discussion on Climbing the Career Ladder: Gender in the Workplace (Aditi Garg (Tesla Motors), Pamela Benkert (Philips Healthcare), Hilda Tang (Oliver Wyman), and Leah Buechley (MIT))

2011 Empowerment Conference

This page includes the following videos:

  • Keynote Address (Cindy Gallop)
  • Communications Workshop—Communications Savvy: from MIT to Everyday Excellence (Dina Napoli Good)
  • Online Personal Branding (Nicholas Lamphere and Tilke Judd)