Program

10:00 AM

Registration

11:00AM

Welcome

Michelle Gadsden-Williams, Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Credit Suisse

Petra Costa, Barnard College, Class of ‘06, Writer and Director of award-winning film “Elena”
 

Introduction

Debora Spar, President, Barnard College

11:30 AM

Keynote Address

Eleonora Menicucci, Brazil’s Minister for Women’s Affairs

12:15PM

Panel One: Voices of the Region

Panmela Castro, Graffiti artist and activist

Kátia Lund, Film director and screenwriter

Mayra Avellar Neves, Student activist, winner of the 2008 International Children’s Peace Prize

Kathryn Kolbert, moderator, Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Barnard College

1:30PM

Lunch

2:45PM

Women in Science: A Discussion

Duilia de Mello, NASA astronomer, professor of Astrophysics, Catholic University of America

Mayana Zatz, Professor of Human and Medical Genetics at the University of São Paulo

Mônica Waldvogel, moderator, Journalist and television current affairs host

3:45PM

Panel Two: Conversations on Leadership

Nilcéa Freire, Ford Foundation Representative for Brazil

Maria Cristina Frias, Columnist for Folha de São Paulo

Adriana Machado, CEO of GE Brazil

Debora Spar, moderator, President of Barnard College

5:00PM

Refreshments