The Women2Women program was designed to provide young women around the world with the opportunity to learn, network and acquire leadership and professional development skills. Participants learned first-hand about the benefits, challenges and responsibilities associated with leadership from established women leaders in government, community, media and business. The Conference was created to empower young women to become future leaders.

 

Held at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts, the eighth year of Women2Women had 60 young women from 16 countries attend the conference. Delegates came from Algeria, Bahrain, Cape Verde, Chad, China, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Palestine, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and the United States.

 

The Conference took place from August 10, 2013 through August 17, 2013. The delegates attended workshops on the Art of Negotiation,  Journalism, Women in the Legislature and a Global Women Panel discussion as well as a workshop on Social media and the basics of public speaking.

 

Several Women2Women alumnae attended the conference as interns, assisting the participants and acting as a mentor to the delegates. They interacted with the participants and could talk about their experiences during the conference and about their action plans.

 

Our delegates also participated in the live-to-tape broadcast about the status of women worldwide. W2W was thrilled to partner with the television Al Arabiya for a third year in a row. The Women's Chat program aired in the Middle East in the late fall of 2013.

 

Speakers included Victoria Budson, founding Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Susan Hackley, the Managing Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Rusty Tunnard from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, author and motivational speaker Todd Patkin, Charlie Clements from the Carr Center for Human Rights, Saran Kaba Jones the Executive Director of FACE Africa, Kerry Healey, former Lt. Governor of Massachusetts and Selena Sermeno, Ph.D.

 

To view the Women2Women 2013 schedule, please click here.

 

To see a list of the 2012 conference speakers and their bios, please click here.