How Women Lead Joins With Top Bay Area Companies To Tackle Unconscious Bias
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) June 19, 2018 -- How Women Lead, a diverse network of more than 8,000 leaders, is teaming up with leading Bay Area companies to tackle the thorny topic of unconscious biases and how they impact our relationships, justice system and technology, at a special event on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 5:30-7:30pm at the Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465 California Street, San Francisco.
The toxic effects of bias make headlines every day--sexual harassment, racial profiling, pay inequity and mommy bias. Yet companies reportedly are spending nearly $8 billion a year on diversity training and still grapple with how to get it right. “Our goal is to promote open discussion about the unconscious biases we all have so that people become aware and find solutions they can act on,” says Julie Castro Abrams, founder of How Women Lead.
The program will focus on select clips from Robin Hauser’s new film bias, a provocative documentary that exposes the surprising ways in which unconscious bias perpetuates inequities in our social groups, workplaces, and communities. It explores groundbreaking research, driven by advances in technology, revealing new ways of uncovering bias and what it will take to produce change.
How Women Lead has assembled change makers from notable Bay Area organizations and the film industry to discuss the critical role of leaders as disruptors and role models including:
• Vicky Nguyen, NBC investigative reporter
• Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland
• Sandra E. Lopez, Intel VP & GM
• Jenny Lefcourt, venture capitalist and founding member of AllRaise.org
• Julie Hanna, entrepreneur and special advisor to Google X
• Robin Hauser, award-winning filmmaker
The evening also will honor Robin Hauser, who also made Code: Debugging the Gender Gap, as well as the Mill Valley Film Festival and its Mind The Gap initiative (50:50 women-led storytelling) for contributions in advancing women's narratives and issues.
About How Women Lead
How Women Lead trains, connects, and promotes diverse women leaders to be industry catalysts by building community and authentic connections. Founded in 2011, the organization brings together women from corporate, philanthropy, public, and nonprofit backgrounds to strengthen their leadership tool boxes and networks to effect greater impact in their respective fields. Now at over 8,000 leaders, the organization has expanded the breadth and depth of its impact nationally. Its philanthropic arm, How Women Give, provides grants and invaluable connections to women’s and girls’ organizations on the frontlines of today’s most critical issues. In 2017, it became managing partner for the national 2020 Women on Boards effort to increase the percentage of women on U.S. company boards.
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Barbara Leavitt, How Women Lead, https://hhounsel.wixsite.com/hwlbiasevent, +1 4158431051, [email protected]
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