2009 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Program!

Aloha!

Check out the 2009 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Program that will be held in Honolulu, Hawai'i. I encourage for eligible applicants to apply now! This is a great opportunity for many young women across the globe to activate their interest in strengthening their own communities and developing business that can help the communities grow. See description below for further information.

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Theme: Women as Entrepreneurs

Fostering Economic Growth and Strengthening Communities

The 2009 program will focus on the important role that entrepreneurship plays in contributing to the development of local economies. Participants will discuss how they can use their entrepreneurial skills, experience, knowledge, and lessons learned to promote community growth and broader linkages between business and the community. The purposes of this program are to:
Expand participant knowledge base on the thematic content of the program, through discussion sessions with locally-based experts and field visits.
Provide participants with information and skills useful for the enhancement of their own leadership abilities in areas such as communication, strategic planning and negotiation.
Promote regional awareness among participants through interaction and exposure to new ideas and viewpoints.
Create opportunities to think creatively and strategically about future directions for themselves and their organizations and to formulate action plans to address issues of concern for their communities.
Program Dates: August 23 - September 1, 2009
Program Location: Honolulu, Hawai'i
Who Can Apply: Women from Asia, the Pacific Islands and the United States from all relevant professional backgrounds, including business owners, government and industry regulators and funders, and civil society organization leaders. Successful candidates will have 5-12 years of work experience with the potential to move into positions of greater responsibility and influence. Applicants must have the ability to communicate in English in a professional, multi-cultural setting. Preference will be given to candidates without significant previous international travel experience.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Check Out Upcoming Event at UC Berkeley!

Please Join Us:
CENTER FOR RACE & GENDER'S PACIFIC ISLANDS RESEARCH WORKING GROUP presents:
"FIGHTING FOR THE HAWAIIAN 'CEDED LANDS': HISTORY & CONSEQUENCES OF HAWAIIVs OHA et al (2009)"

This workshop will examine the latest land struggle in the Hawaiian Islands. We will trace the history of the “ceded lands” and the events leading up to the March 31 U.S. Supreme Court decision in State of Hawaiiv. Office of Hawaiian Affairs et al, No. 07–1372 (2009). At issue is the State of Hawaii’s ability to sell portions of the “ceded lands” which Hawaiian activists remind us were seized, not ceded. This workshop will pay particular attention to questions that remain open since the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, including who is the “public” of the Hawaiian Islands and what are the legal interrelationships between today’s State of Hawai'i and the Kingdom of Hawai'i.

When & Where : WEDS APRIL 29 @ 5:00-8:00PM. Center for Race & Gender, 6th Floor Barrows, University of California,Berkeley.

SPEAKER BIOS:
*JESSIE K. KEOLA MINIER-is an attorney in Silicon Valley, with a practicethat focuses on compliance with federal and state corporate and securitieslaws. In addition, he has conducted research and prepared analyses oflegal issues confronting Native Hawaiians and kama’aina of Hawai'i.

*DR. LAURA LEHUA YIM- is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofEnglish at San Francisco State University. Her research and teaching workfocuses on Renaissance English literature and culture, especially domesticand colonial reformulations of epistemology, notions of the person, andland and water law. Her other academic and activist work includesstrategic analyses of political, economic and social institutions inHawai'i.

**Food will be provided.-This workshop is organized by the Pacific Islands Research Working Groupand it is generously sponsored by a grant from The Center for Race & Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.

For more info fuifuilupe@berkeley.edu