Innovative Approaches to Promote Gender Equity in Society

Speakers:

Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center
T.H. Maria Torres-Springer, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development & Workforce, NYC Office Of The Mayor
T.H. Anne Williams-Isom, Deputy Mayor, NYC Office Of The Mayor
T.H. Sheena Wright, First Deputy Mayor, NYC Office Of The Mayor

With patron Programming partner

“We are at a time when poverty has increased around the country for the first time in several years, there is a gender pay gap that is stagnant and acute for black and latino women in particular, and we are seeing rates of gender-based violence soar”

– Fatima Goss Graves

“Black women are four times likely to die in a pregnancy related death. 62% of those deaths would have been preventable.”

– Anne Williams-Isom

“How do you tackle those issues in ways that are enduring? And for us, it means a few things. It means making women visible in the conversation.”

– Maria Torres-Springer

“We have a leadership in city government of overwhelmingly women leaders. And we’ve never had that in New York City. I’m the third first deputy mayor in the history of the city of New York to be a woman, the first Black first Deputy Mayor.”

– Sheena Wright