4 Dec 2014 6:30 pm
Main floor, HRCB Deadlines
Registration:
4 Dec 6:00 pm
WeForShe
Schedule
Time Zone: MST (America/Denver)
Thursday, 4 December 2014
6:30 pm–8:30 pm
WeForShe Booths
Walk through 12 WeForShe booths, 1 for each top international problem that girls and women face around the planet.
The Empowering Women presentation & dinner tickets (no cost) will be provided starting at 6:30 to the first 200 guests in line at the South Door of the HRCB.
The 12 issues women face include:
- Media
- Health
- Poverty
- Economics
- Environment
- The Girl Child
- Human Rights
- Armed Conflict
- Education and Training
- Violence Against Women
- Power and Decision-Making
- Institutional Decision-Making
Other Stations Include:
- Solutions Document
- Social Innovation by the Ballard Center
- Treasure Hunt/Raffle Prize
- WomanStats Database Training
- Wall murals of infograms and quotes
- Gendercide Fly-Through Art Installation
- Emma Watson's HeForShe Speech at the UN
- Personal Pledges
The Empowering Women presentation & dinner tickets (no cost) will be provided starting at 6:30 to the first 200 guests in line at the South Door of the HRCB.
The 12 issues women face include:
- Media
- Health
- Poverty
- Economics
- Environment
- The Girl Child
- Human Rights
- Armed Conflict
- Education and Training
- Violence Against Women
- Power and Decision-Making
- Institutional Decision-Making
Other Stations Include:
- Solutions Document
- Social Innovation by the Ballard Center
- Treasure Hunt/Raffle Prize
- WomanStats Database Training
- Wall murals of infograms and quotes
- Gendercide Fly-Through Art Installation
- Emma Watson's HeForShe Speech at the UN
- Personal Pledges
HRCB Main Floor
7:00 pm–8:00 pm
Empowering Women Presentation and a Light Dinner
7:00-7:10 pm Welcome
7:10-7:25 pm Presentation by Neylan McBaine
Neylan McBaine, brand specialist, author, speaker, NGO founder
Neylan McBaine is a native New Yorker and graduate of Yale University. She has worked at small and large firms as a brand strategist. Recently, she worked on/shaped the "I Am A Mormon" Campaign. Neylan is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Mormon Women Project (MWP), a continuously expanding digital library of interviews with LDS women from around the world found at Mormon Women Project - LDS Women Sharing Their Faith. Founded in 2010, the MWP is a 501c3 and has published nearly 300 interviews with women in 22 countries.
7:25-8:00 pm Light Dinner
More information coming soon on this presentation. At 6:30pm, the Empowering Women presentation and dinner tickets will be provided to the first 200 guests.
7:10-7:25 pm Presentation by Neylan McBaine
Neylan McBaine, brand specialist, author, speaker, NGO founder
Neylan McBaine is a native New Yorker and graduate of Yale University. She has worked at small and large firms as a brand strategist. Recently, she worked on/shaped the "I Am A Mormon" Campaign. Neylan is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Mormon Women Project (MWP), a continuously expanding digital library of interviews with LDS women from around the world found at Mormon Women Project - LDS Women Sharing Their Faith. Founded in 2010, the MWP is a 501c3 and has published nearly 300 interviews with women in 22 countries.
7:25-8:00 pm Light Dinner
More information coming soon on this presentation. At 6:30pm, the Empowering Women presentation and dinner tickets will be provided to the first 200 guests.
238 HRCB
8:00 pm–8:20 pm
Measuring High Impact Poverty Alleviation
Daniel Nielson is Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He is the former Chief Social Scientist and a founder and principal investigator of AidData.org, the world’s largest information base on foreign aid. He received his PhD in international affairs from the University of California – San Diego in 1997. His research uses field experiments or randomized control trials to study foreign aid, international development, government corruption, and international law. A current experiment randomly assigns the ownership of cellphones to poor women in rural Tanzania to learn their effects on personal security, economic welfare, social connectedness, and political empowerment.
He has performed more than thirty field experiments on topics related to international development, most involving undergraduate co-authors. He is co-author of Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism (Cambridge Univ. Press 2014). He is also co-editor of Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge 2006). He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, World Development, and many other peer-reviewed journals.
He has performed more than thirty field experiments on topics related to international development, most involving undergraduate co-authors. He is co-author of Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism (Cambridge Univ. Press 2014). He is also co-editor of Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge 2006). He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, World Development, and many other peer-reviewed journals.
238 HRCB
8:20 pm
Raffle Prizes
2 tickets to TEDxBYU on April 9, 2015, organized by the Ballard Center
2 copies of Sex & World Peace, written by the founder of The WomanStats Project
2 copies of Sex & World Peace, written by the founder of The WomanStats Project
238 HRCB