Previous Speaking Engagements
New Canaan Public Library: New Canaan, Connecticut
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Left: At the podium in New Canaan
Right: Bonnie Marcus, Gloria Feldt, and Sophfronia Scott at the New Canaan Public Library sharing with the audience how they “wear the shirt.”
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Tucson, AZ Fri. 11/19 @7 pm Antigone Books Gloria FeldtGLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,”…
Read MoreChanging Hands Bookstore: Tempe, Arizona
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Top Left: A packed house waited for the reading to begin. Lots of old friends and family made this event especially special.
Top Center: I love this bookstore!
Top Right: A panel of politically astute women talk about various power tools.
Bottom Left: Debra Boehlke tells how she knew she had the power to at age 16 when she discovered she could earn money to support herself. Debra, Bree Boehlke, executive director of Emerge Arizona and Dana Kennedy, Emerge board member all shared their power political moments.
Bottom Right: Signing AZ state senate candidate (and personal hero) Rita Dickinson’s book.
Read MoreBooks, Inc: San Francisco, California
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Top Left: Captured at Books Inc–just a few of the powerful women in this audience: front left: Marya Stark (Emerge America board chair); middle left Google executive Rachel Payne; back row my editor at Seal Press Brooke Warner and publisher Krista Lyons; Front row center activist par excellence Marilyn Fowler representing Women’s Intercultural Network-California Women’s Agenda, and right semi-hidden by my book is environmental blogger Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish.
Top Right: Me and Heidi Groshelle at the Books, Inc. signing
Bottom Left: Blogger Beth Terry (check out Fake Plastic Fish) tells her inspiring story of how she used the power tool “create a movement” and got Brita to make its filters recyclable.
Bottom Right: Marilyn Fowler, stalwart leader of U.S. Women Connect and the Women’s Intercultural Network shares her power to story.
Read MoreKepler’s Books: San Francisco, California
I had a whirlwind trip to the Bay Area, with a book event at Kepler’s Books on October 20th, and private book readings in Menlo Park and Palo Alto on October 21st and 22nd.
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Left: Reading a story about baby elephants at the No Excuses event at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park.
Center: I’d asked Marian if she wanted to have breakfast on my last morning in a week-long Northern CA tour since she couldn’t make the reading at Kepler’s. Next thing I knew she had 40 women coming for breakfast. What a send-off!
Right: The bookseller quickly ran out of books!
Read MoreWomen’s Leadership Takes Center Stage at 2010 Bioneers Conference
It was such an honor to speak at the 2010 Bioneers conference, where I presented my keynote address, entitled “Riding the Leadership Wave.” I also participated in two panel discussions about women and leadership, which is no surprise, since women’s leadership took center stage at this year’s conference.
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Top Left: Author and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen, leading the charge for a 5th World Conference on Women
Top Right: Gloria and my shero Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist and anthropologist
Bottom Left: Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons, Kirwan Institute executive director John A. Powell, and Gloria–relaxing after the keynotes
Bottom Right: The illustrious Bioneers panel on Women, Gender and the Media: (left to right) Rose Aguilar, Aimee Allison, Gloria Feldt, Dori Maynard–all of us Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices alumnae
Read MoreMills College: Oakland, California
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Mills College graduate student Mandy Benson and undergrad Yolanda Tasso have No Excuses! |
The Stanton-Anthony Lecture Series
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I had the great honor of keynoting the Susan B Anthony/Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lecture at the University of Rochester’s Meliora weekend, October 15, 2010. As you can see, I got into the spirit by wearing my Susan B. Anthony outfit, black clothing with a red shawl. The 19th century women’s civil rights leader always wore black and her red shawl became her identifying trademark. |
Busboys and Poets: Washington, DC
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The Busboys and Poets audience was fantastic! There was standing room only. I saw many old friends and made lots of new ones. Thank you DC! And is this the cutest stage ever? Love the pumpkin!
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From the Left:
Reading from No Excuses
Jenna Mellor and J. Schmitz told their stories and we discussed power tools “tell your story” and “embrace controversy.”
Jodi Jacobson, editor in chief of RH Reality Check introducing the program at Busboys and Poets. Special thanks to Tamara Kreinin and the United Nations Foundation Women and Population program. UNF, RHRC, and the Women’s Campaign Forum co-sponsored the event.
Read MoreThe Strand: New York, New York
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Left: Jenn Pozner, founder and executive director of Women in Media and News asks a question while journalist Jessica Wakeman and filmmaker Therese Shechter look on.
Center: Talking about No Excuses and the 9 Ways at The Strand in New York
Right: Jenn Pozner live tweets while Liz Abzug tells us how her mother Bella used her power. (Bella used to say, “We want it all but we’ll take half.”)
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