In conjunction with the entire Castilleja learning community, the ACE Center is excited to welcome everyone to Global Week 2013! Let the “Standing Up and Speaking Out” begin with ……………. YOU.
What you’ll find inside ……
1. Overview of the Week
2. Daily Schedules: All-school and Grade-level Activities, Times and Locations
3. Short-Workshop Descriptions
4. Bios of Global Week Guests (alpha order)
5. Workshop Share-Out Instructions
6. Museum Experience Passport Page (for those students participating in the museum experience)
Overview of the Week
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, January 7 January 8 January 9 January 10 January 11
Advisory 8:30–8:50
8:55–10:10 8:55–10:10 8:55–10:10 Social Partnership In 8:55–10:15 Youth Action: Enterprise: Engagement Speaks Free the Ada’s Café Workshop Performance Children, Akili Dada Craig Shiva Shanta Kielburger
8:55–12:00 Break 10:10– Break 10:10– Engagement Break 10:10– Break 10:15– 10:30 10:30 Workshops 10:30 10:40
10:40–11:30 10:30–12:00 10:30–1:50 10:30–1:50 Engagement Student Engagement Engagement Workshop Voice Workshops Workshops Share Out Workshops
Lunch Lunch 11:30– Lunch 11:30– Lunch 11:30– Lunch 11:30 – 12:00–1:20 1:00 12:55 1:00 12:30
1:00–2:00 Democratization 12:40–1:40 in the 21st ACE
Century: Workshop Share Out John Matisonn 1:30–3:00 Annie Break 1:50- Break 2:00– Break 1:50– Break 1:40– Leonard: 2:10 2:10 2:10 1:45 “The Story of Change” 1:45–2:30 Talisman 2:10–3:10 Performance Daily ACE Mini Workshops
Monday, January 7
TIME WHO WHAT WHERE 8:30 – All Students/ Advisory Advisory 8:50 Advisors Meeting Place
8:55 – All School Youth Speaks Chapel 10:10 Performance
10:10 – All School Break 10:30
10:30 Interactive – Museum Museum Gym 12:00 Experience Group Experience
MSLL, MSML, 10:30 Youth Speaks/ Arrillaga 2nd FL, – Student Voice Storytelling Library, Studio 12:00 Workshop Workshops Theater, Room 14
12:00 Morning Round Staggered – All School Up/Lunch Dismissal to 12:10 Dismissal Lunch
12:10 – All School Lunch 1:20
1:30 All School Annie Leonard: – (@2:45- MS leaves The Story of Chapel 3:00 for advisory) Change
Tuesday, January 8
TIME WHO WHAT WHERE
Advisory 8:30 All Students/ Meeting – Advisors Advisory Place/9’s Pack 8:50 Lunch
Partnership in 8:55 Action Panel: Chapel – All School except Akili Dada, Shiva (Sophomores in 10:10 Sophomores Shanta, Ada’s Studio Theater) Cafe
10:10 – All School Break 10:30
10:30 – Grade-Level Grade-Level See G-L Details 1:50 Teams Project
11:30 Staggered – All School Lunch Dismissal to 1:00 Lunch
1:50 – All School Break 2:10
2:10 ACE Short See Short – All School Workshops Workshop 3:10 Descriptions
Wednesday, January 9
TIME WHO WHAT WHERE
8:30 – All Students/ New Blue (Yale Chapel/ 9’s 8:50 Advisors A Capella Group) Pack Lunch
8:55 – Grade-Level Teams Grade-Level See G-L Details 12:00 Project
11:30 Staggered – All School Lunch Dismissal to 12:55 Lunch
Democratization 1:00 in the 20th – All School Century, John Chapel 2:00 Matisonn
2:00 – All School Break 2:10
2:10 ACE Short See Short – All School Workshops Workshop 3:10 Descriptions
Thursday, January 10
TIME WHO WHAT WHERE
8:30 – All Students/ Advisory Advisory Meeting 8:50 Advisors Place
8:55 – All School Free the Children, Chapel 10:10 Craig Kielburger
10:10 – All School Break 10:30
10:30 – Grade-Level Engagement See G-L Details 1:50 Teams Workshops
11:30 – All School Lunch Staggered Dismissal 1:00 to Lunch
1:50 – All School Break 2:10
2:10 – All School ACE Short See Short Workshop 3:10 Workshops Descriptions
Friday, January 11
TIME WHO WHAT WHERE
8:30 Advisory – All Students/ Advisory Meeting 8:50 Advisors Place
8:55 – Grade-Level Teams Grade-Level See G-L 10:15 Project Details
10:15 – All School Break 10:40
10:40 Grade-Level – All School Project Share Chapel 11:30 Out
11:30 Staggered – All School Lunch dismissal to 12:30 Opportunity lunch
12:40 ACE Short – All School Workshop Chapel 1:40 Share Out
1:40 – All School Break Chapel 1:45
1:45 Talisman – All School Closing Chapel 2:30 Performance
Tuesday, January 8 Grade-Level Activities
GRADE 6 GRADE 9
10:30 Jigsaw Arrillaga Depart for – Activity 2nd Floor Partnership 11:30 Experience 11:30 (Acterra, Meet – Lunch EPACS, outside 12:10 10:15 PACT Choral 12:10 T-shirt depart at Room – Weave and 206,208, 10:15; EHP 1:50 Storytelling 209,210 leaves at Workshops 10:30) Return to 1:30 Casti
GRADE 7 GRADE 10
Meet 10:30 SF outside 8:55 DWC – Farmer’s Arrillaga - Prep with Studio 2:10 Market doors to 10:30 Alison Theater depart Park Project Studio 10:30 Prep with Theater/ – Jess CSA GRADE 8 11:15 Munro Room
10:30 Kari Barber: 11:30 DWC, Meet in – Documentary Chapel – including Sr. 11:45 Film Maker travel Parking 2:00 time Lot 11:45 – Lunch 12:30 GRADE 12
MS 10:30 Karen 12:30 Video Main – Behnke Choral – Editing Level, 11:30 Conversation Room 1:50 Workshop 8,9,10, 11,12,13 11:30 – Lunch 12:30 12:30 – Common Choral 1:50 Sense Media Room Grade 12 Photo workshop to meet in Room 202 at all times. Wednesday, January 9
Grade-Level Activities
GRADE 6 GRADE 9
Arrillaga Depart for 8:55 2nd Floor/ Partnership – Storytelling 203,205, Experience Meet 10:10 206,207, 8:55 (Note, outside 208,209 Choral Rebuilding Room 10:30 departs at – Water Circle 8:45) 11:15 Walk 12:30 Return to Casti 11:20 Arrillaga – Storytelling 2nd Floor + 12:10 Classrooms GRADE 10 12:10 – Lunch Studio 1:00 8:55 - Storytelling/ Theater/ Brainstorming CSA 10:00 Room GRADE 7 Studio 10:00 – Brainstorming/ Theater/ 8:55 11:00 Storytelling CSA – Research 17,18,19,20 Room 12:00 Studio 11:00 Prototyping Theater/ 12:00 – and Present – Lunch 12:30 Back CSA 1:00 Room
GRADE 12 GRADE 8
8:55 9:00 Video 8,9,10, – Chiconomy Choral – editing 11,12,13 Conversation Room 10:10 10:30
8,9,10, 10:30 10:30 Video 11,12,13+ Building Social – feedback – Media for MS 12:00 session Library 11:45 Spaces 11:45 Guest Speaker 12:00 – Brown Bag Choral – Lunch 1:00 Lunch Room 1:00
Thursday, January 10 Grade -Level Activities
GRADE 6 GRADE 9
10:30 Arrillaga Messaging MSLL, 10:30 Storytelling nd – 2 FL, 11:45 Experience 10,11,12,13 – AB Final Gym, 11:15 Session 206,210 11:45 – Lunch 12:30 Arrillaga 11:25 Storytelling 2nd FL, 12:30 Debrief and – C Final Gym, – Bracelets 12:10 Session 203,210 1:50
12:10 – Lunch GRADE 10 1:00 Arrillaga Studio 1:00 Storytelling 2nd FL, 10:30 – D Final – Entrepreneurial Theater/ 1:50 Session Gym, Design CSA 203,210 11:45 Room
GRADE 7 11:45 - Lunch 12:15 10:30 Student 16,17,18, – Choice 19,20 1:00 12:15 Studio 12:20 – Design Pitch Theater/ - Lunch 1:50 CSA 1:00 Room 1:00 Student – Choice 16,17,18, 19,20 1:50 cont. GRADE 12
10:30 GRADE 8 – Karen Choral 12:15 Kang Room 10:30 – Ignite CA Chapel 12:15 11:45 – Lunch 12:50 11:45 Peggy – Lunch 12:50 12:35 – McKee: Choral 12:35 1:00 Varied Room – Ignite CA Chapel Voices 1:50
Friday, January 11 Grade-Level Activities
GRADE 6 GRADE 9
Arrillaga 8:55 Editing and 8:55 2nd FL, 10,11, Storytelling – Posting 12,13 – ABCD 203,205, 10:15 workshop 10:15 206,207, 208,209
GRADE 10 GRADE 7
Studio 8:55 Finalize 17,18, 8:55 Drafting a – – Grant Theater/ 10:15 Projects 19,20 CSA 10:15 Proposal Room
GRADE 8 GRADE 12
MSLL, 8:55 8:55 Alumnae Choral – Final Edits 23,24, – 25,26, 10:15 Mentors Room 10:15 26B
ACE Short Workshops Tuesday – Thursday, 2:10 – 3:10
Are you Greener than Green?: Dining Room
Green Snack Attack! Get your “Chef” on with the leaders of the Green Team in the Casti Dining Room.
Bay Area Voices: Female Politicians Making Change: Chapel Theater
Hear from and have a chance to question three different local female politicians about their paths to politics, the roles they play, the challenges they face, and the goals they have for fostering change in their respective roles. Get the real scoop on what it’s like to run a campaign, speak in many different public forums, negotiate tricky situations, and represent your constituents.
Develop A Personal Giving Mission: Room 206
Ever wonder how to choose where to volunteer your time, donate money, or dedicate effort? Join this workshop and you’ll leave the experience with a personal giving mission statement that will inform how you find your voice and become a powerful change agent
Meet the Women Who Are Changing the World: Choral Room
Global Woman’s Leadership Network is a program that brings change-makers from all over the world to the University of Santa Clara for an intensive leadership learning experience. Learn about the program and meet some of the fantastic women they’re working with this year!
Movie Making For a Mission: Room 205
In “Movie-Making” for a Mission you will create a video about anything that interests you and needs your help with a promotional short movie. Work with student leader Cameron Hill to help a cause "go viral." Stop motion, animation, and live action videos are just some of the types of videos open to you. You will learn a few new tips each day. You can collaborate with others, or work individually. This workshop will be very relaxed, and everyone will be able to work at her own pace. No prior experience with movie making is necessary.
My Teacher Has A Life and Other Voices That Matter: Library
Hear from a different community member each day about his/her passion. Learn how s/he acts to “be the change s/he wants to see in the world.”
Tuesday: Therapy Dogs with Mr. Smoot Wednesday: Bio-diesel 101 with Ms. Nawas, Ms. Appelget, and Mr. Fonstad Thursday: Voices from Africa with Ms. McKee
Roshni @ Casti: Room 207
Work with student leader and ACE Fellow Megan Colford to learn more about Roshni Academy in India. Get the scoop on the Investigator experience to India, learn facts, hear stories, and then get to spend a “day in the life” at Roshni by experiencing some of the very same leadership skill building activities they’re doing in their program.
Speaking Out for Universal Literacy: Building Educational Resources for Visually Impaired Children: Studio Theater
Work with student leader Mayuka Sarrukai as she shares “Access Braille,” an organization that provides educational materials for visually impaired children in Africa and India. Sudha Rajagopalan, who is a volunteer and spokesperson for the organization, will join Mayuka to speak to the Castilleja community about her own experiences with the organization, the impact their work has had so far, and her personal journey as an individual who herself is visually impaired.
The School Fund: Room 16
Work with social entrepreneur and “The School Fund” Program Director Christi Zaleski to imagine how to use digital platforms to further our partnership with Kisaruni School.
Biographies
TANUSHREE (TINA) AGGARWAL SEMA BASOL ShivaShanta Mother & Child Health Center Global Women’s Leadership Network
Tina Aggarwal is a project champion at One Sema Basol is the Co-Founder of the Turkish World Children’s Fund for the ShivaShanta Women's Initiative. She graduated from the Mother and Child Health Center. The center Women Leaders for the World (WLW) cares for children and their mothers from 3 program in 2007 and has been working on months to 3 years of age and provides empowering young women leaders in proper pre-natal and post-natal care. Turkey. Through the Sparks Leadership Aggarwal is currently pursuing a Masters Development program for university Degree in Counseling Psychology at Santa students, women build skills through Clara University to become a licensed community-based social change projects. psychotherapist. She serves as the President During the 2011-12 school year, these of the Graduate Student Association at the projects have collectively impacted the lives Counseling Psychology Department and of 18,000 individuals in Turkey. won the departmental scholarship for the year 2011-2012. She was nominated by the KAREN BEHNKE World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper Founder, Juice Beauty for 2011. She holds a Masters degree in Management Sciences from Stanford Karen Behnke is the founder of Juice Beauty, University and a Bachelors’ in Engineering a company that provides all natural, from Pune University, India. “Clinically Validated yet Authentically Organic” skin and hair products. Juice LINDA ALEPIN Beauty is continuously acknowledged in the Founder, Global Women’s Leadership media with “best of” awards and was just Network recently awarded its first patent for the unique Green Apple Peel formulation. Linda Alepin, GWLN Board Chair and Behnke has enjoyed a long and successful Founder of GWLN, is the Dean’s Executive entrepreneurial career in health and wellness Professor of Leadership at Santa Clara by marrying her passion for helping people University. She has more than thirty years of enjoy healthier lifestyles with her skill at experience in the high-tech industry and has building mission-driven businesses. She spent ten years teaching leadership in the started one of the first Corporate Wellness corporate arena. Alepin spent more than ten Companies in the country and then merged years as a Vice President and officer of a it into the multi-billion United Fortune 300 IT company and was CEO and Healthcare/PacifiCare Corporation during Founder of Pebblesoft, an early Internet the 80’s and 90’s. She then served on the start-up. She is a noted public speaker on Board of Directors at 24 Hour Fitness during leadership and management and is the their cyber growth period in the late 90’s recipient of the Santa Clara County and early 2000’s. She has been recognized Commission on the Status on Women’s as Women Entrepreneur of the Year by Award for Contributions to the Equality of Women’s Initiative (2011), “Top EcoLeader” Women. by Glamour Magazine, San Francisco Woman Entrepreneur of the Year (1987), San KARI BARBER Francisco Examiner’s top 39 Movers and Editing/Motion Graphics, DreamWorks Shakers Under the Age of 39, and Western Animation Michigan University’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Kari Barber currently works at DreamWorks Animation as an Editing and Motions DR. SHARMILA BHATTACHARYA Graphic Designer. She is a Castilleja Alumna, NASA Ames Research Center Class of 2002, and went on to receive her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Dr. Sharmila Bhattacharya is a senior Southern California. Her thesis film, The Fifth scientist and the Director of the Biomodel Horseman, has been shown at film festivals Performance Laboratory in the Space around the world and will be Oscar-qualified Biosciences Division at NASA Ames in September 2013. Research Center in California. Dr. Bhattacharya has served as the Principal Previously, Ms. Bostrom served as senior Investigator for the shuttle flight experiment vice president of global marketing and (Fly Immunity and Tumors, or FIT) that strategic planning at FTP Software. Prior to utilized fruit flies to understand the effects joining FTP, Ms. Bostrom worked in strategic of space flight on the immune system. Dr. marketing at National Semiconductor and Bhattacharya earned her Master’s and PhD served for seven years at McKinsey & degrees in Molecular Biology at Princeton Company as a leader in the electronics University, followed by post-doctoral practice. She serves on the board of research in Neurobiology at Stanford directors for Varian Medical Systems, University. After Bhattacharya moved to Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and NASA Ames Research Center, she served as Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. the Lead Scientist for the Insect Habitat, a She also serves on the advisory board of the collaborative effort by NASA and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Canadian Space Agency and developed a Research. Ms. Bostrom holds an MBA from habitat for the International Space Station. the Stanford Graduate School of Business Dr. Bhattacharya served as the Acting and a BS in marketing from the University of Project Manager for Small Biological Illinois, where she graduated in the top 1% of Payloads flying on Progress, Soyuz and her class. shuttle missions. Later Dr. Bhattacharya served as Chief Scientist for Astrobionics and the Small Spacecraft Division, helping DR. YVONNE CAGLE integrate science payloads on a variety of NASA Astronaut & Family Physician space flight platforms. Her own research at NASA has involved studying immune Dr. Yvonne Cagle is a NASA Astronaut and changes during spaceflight, and the effects Family Physician. In 2008, Dr. Cagle retired of radiation and altered gravity on the as a Colonel in the USAF where she served neurobehavioral system. Dr. Bhattacharya’s as a Senior Flight Surgeon prior to her research utilizes cell culture models and selection to the NASA Astronaut Corp in whole animal models, including Drosophila 1996. In 2005, Dr. Cagle was assigned to the melanogater, to study oxidative stress NASA/ARC as the lead ARC Astronaut mechanisms as it relates to space flight Science Liaison and Strategic Relationships related conditions. Manager for Google and other Silicon Valley Programmatic Partnerships. Dr. Cagle’s SUE BOSTROM groundbreaking work is preserving historic Former Executive Vice President, Cisco NASA space legacy data while, Systems simultaneously, galvanizing NASA’s lead in global mapping, sustainable energies, green Sue Bostrom is former EVP and chief initiatives, and disaster preparedness. Dr. marketing officer at Cisco Systems. With Cagle is advisor for the Commercial almost 14 years of experience at Cisco Reusable Suborbital Research Program Systems in a variety of roles and more than (CRuSR). Currently Dr. Cagle is on faculty 20 years of strategic marketing experience, and serves as the NASA liaison for she was responsible for developing and exploration and space exponential communicating Cisco’s vision and strategy technologies with Singularity University. through positioning, branding, advertising, and product marketing. She also had MICHELLE CALE responsibility for the Worldwide Board Member, Women’s Foundation of Government Affairs organization and California leadership roles on Cisco’s Consumer and Small Business Councils. Ms. Bostrom also Michelle Cale has been involved in multiple served as the executive sponsor of the aspects of philanthropy surrounding Women’s Initiative at Cisco from 2001 education, criminal justice reform, and the through 2004. Ms. Bostrom joined Cisco in empowerment and security of women and 1997 as vice president of applications and girls. She serves on the Silicon Valley services marketing and was appointed to Regional Board for Reading Partners, vice president of IBSG in 1998. She was volunteers with Breakthrough Silicon Valley, promoted to senior vice president in and collaborates with others in the Women February 2000, chief marketing officer in Silicon Valley Donor Circle, hosted by the January 2006, and EVP in August 2007. Women’s Foundation of California. She was a former staff member at the Clayman Funded by Silicon Valley business leaders Institute for Gender Research, and earned and philanthropists, the program identifies, her Ph. D at Oxford University. trains, and mentors girls through the course of an intensive six-month training period. LIZ ROWEN FRITZ The program to date has served thousands Management Consultant, Wells Fargo of girls. Hasan has traveled all over India expanding the reach of Roshni. She received Liz Rowen Fritz has a Bachelor's of Science her Bachelor of Science from Stanford degree from U.C. Davis and has spent the University in 2008. past 8 years working her way up in the high net worth space of the banking world. She KATHLEEN HUGHES brings to the table a breadth of experience Founder, Ada’s Cafe including the Director of Communications role for Ascent Private Capital Management Kathleen Foley-Hughes is Founder of Ada’s of U.S. Bank, a wealth management business Café and Catering, a non-profit corporation that offers clients with significant resources dedicated to hiring, training and the services needed to care for their families empowering people with disabilities in to and secure a legacy for future generations work in the commercial food service to come. In her role, she was able to business. Ada’s mission is also to serve great combine her passion for writing (which she food, with the hopes to bring the community attributes to Mrs. Reno's classes at Casti!) together in their unique social and creative design with her passion for entrepreneurial business. Foley-Hughes has bettering our global community by enabling had over 25 years of experience as an event those with significant resources to do great planner, fundraiser, and professional caterer. things for our world. Fritz is also a member She has founded and funded two successful of the Castilleja ACE Center Advisory vocational education food service programs Council and Executive Alumnae Committee. for disabled students within the Palo Alto Her background in marketing, Unified School District. She holds a Bachelor communications, and relationship of Science Degree in Business management in the financial services Administration from St. Francis University in industry and her connection with Castilleja Pennsylvania. has created a fun and dynamic partnership. MINNIE INGERSOLL JEFF GREENWALD Product Manager, Google Storyteller Minnie Ingersoll is a principal at Google.org, Jeff Greenwald is the Founder and Executive a team within Google using technology to Director of Ethical Traveler, a non-profit drive social impact. Her work is focused on organization dedicated to human rights and information access, civic innovation, and environmental protection, empowering Google Ideas. Ingersoll’s projects build tools travelers to change the world through their to help people access information, publish travels. Greenwald is also the author of six information, and to maintain digital security best-selling travel books, and his stories and even in potentially hostile situations. essays have appeared in various print and Before joining Google.org, she launched online publications – including The New York Google’s Fiber to the Home initiative to Times Magazine, National Geographic bring Gigabit speed Internet access to Adventure and Outside. In addition he has residents of Kansas City. Ingersoll is also prepared exhibits, lectures and educational involved in an ongoing effort to make more programs for San Francisco’s Exploratorium, radio spectrum available and used efficiently the University of California, The Body Shop, for wireless broadband. Her involvement on and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. the Access team began with the deployment of a citywide muni Wi-Fi network covering SAIMA HASAN the city of Mountain View, CA. Ingersoll has Founder, Roshni Academy an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in computer science from Stanford Saima Hasan founded the Roshni Academy University. as a junior at Stanford in 2007, with the goal to empower brilliant girls from impoverished areas to help them realize their full potential. AMANDA JONES partner with Regis McKenna, Inc., the Founder, Potentia Media legendary marketing firm that created and launched the Apple brand. She’s consulted Amanda Jones is a writer and photographer to more than 150 organizations in the US, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Europe, and Asia from Fortune 100 2004, she founded Potentia Media, a companies to non-profits and startups. Kang company committed to delivering the facts is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mills about crucial social and global issues in College, where she holds her B.A. degree in accessible ways using new media. Her work English, and has earned her M.S. degree in appears in the LA Times, Travel & Leisure, journalism from Boston University. Town & Country, Conde Nast Traveler, the London Sunday Times, Vogue Australia, and NANCI KAUFFMAN NEXT, among others. She has done story Head of School, Castilleja development for National Geographic television, and her photography series Nanci Kauffman is Castilleja's sixth Head of Timeless, black and white photographs of School. Prior to becoming Head on July 1, African tribal peoples, was exhibited at the 2010, she was Associate Head of School and United Nations film festival. Jones teaches Dean of Faculty. A veteran teacher and travel writing, and is frequently invited to administrator, she has worked almost speak at literary conferences, workshops exclusively at all-girls schools. At Castilleja and festivals. She was born and educated in Kauffman taught in the History department Auckland, New Zealand. for seven years, and served as the interim Middle School Head for one semester. She DR. WANJIRU KAMAU-RUTENBERG currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Founder, Akili Dada Wagner College in New York City and the Hamlin School for Girls in San Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is Founder Francisco. Originally from New York, Nanci and Executive Director of Akili Dada, an and her husband Scott relocated to Palo award-winning leadership incubator that is Alto with their son and daughter in nurturing the next generation of African 1997. Together they enjoy traveling, women leaders. She was recently named on concerts, theatre, and sports. Kauffman NewAfrican’s Magazine’s 2012 list of the 100 plays tennis whenever she can, including Most Influential Africans. Also, in November hitting with the Casti girls when her schedule 2012, she was presented with the Champion permits. of Democracy Award from the Ford Foundation. Dr. Kamau-Rutenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Politics KIRSTEN KEITH department at the University of San Mayor, Menlo Park Francisco, where her research and teaching interests center on the politics of Kirsten Keith is the current mayor of Menlo philanthropy, gender, Africa, ethnicity, Park. Originally trained as a Public Interest democratization, and on the role of lawyer, she has dedicated and donated her technology in social activism. Originally from legal skills to benefit the Menlo Park Kenya, she received a B.A. from Whitman Community. She has over 20 years of civic College and earned her Masters and PhD service, including acting on the Board of from the University of Minnesota. Directors for Sor Juana Ines and the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention, KAREN KANG Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse CEO & Founder, BrandingPays (CORA), and the San Mateo County Legal Aid Luncheon Committee. She has also Karen Kang is the author of BrandingPays™: served on the Community Mediation The Five-Step System to Reinvent Your Services Committee, Housing Commission, Personal Brand (January 2013). She is a and Planning Commission. She received her recognized brand strategist and the CEO Bachelors of Arts from UC Santa Barbara, and Founder of BrandingPays LLC, a and earned her J.D. from Golden Gate corporate and personal branding company. University School of Law. She has trained thousands of professionals on the unique BrandingPays™ System for personal branding. Previously, she was a CRAIG KIELBURGER Economics at the University of California, Founder, Free the Children Berkeley.
Craig Kielburger is the Founder and Chair of DEANNA KOSARAJU Free The Children, a unique organization Global Women’s Leadership Network that has built more than 500 schools throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Deanna Kosaraju is a 2012 graduate of providing daily education to more than GWLN’s Women Leaders for the 50,000 children. He is also the Co-Founder World program. She is the founder of Global and Director of Me to We Social Enterprises, Tech Women which has a mission to create which provides socially responsible lifestyle a global network of inspired, connected and products and choices for young people, self-actualized technical women. Global families, and corporations. He has been Tech Women plans to focus on the needs of awarded many national and international individual technical women on a personal awards for his work, including The Roosevelt and professional level – providing them with Freedom Medal, The World Children’s Prize consistent support from their freshman year for the Rights of the Child, and he is one of to their entry in the workforce, their first and the youngest recipients of The Order of subsequent promotions, and their successful Canada. Kielburger has a degree in Peace retirement. and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto and is the youngest-ever graduate ANNIE LEONARD of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA Director, Story of Stuff Project program. Annie Leonard is the Director of the Story of LlZ KNISS Stuff Project and author of the book, The President of the Board of Supervisors, Story of Stuff (Free Press, March 2010). The Santa Clara County’s Fifth District Story of Stuff was known for a 20-minute web film that takes viewers on a provocative Liz Kniss is currently the President of the and eye-opening tour of the often hidden Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in costs of our consumer driven culture. Her San Jose, CA. First elected to public office as newest movie, the Story of Change, was a member of the Palo Alto Unified School recently released in 2012 as an addition to Board, Liz was then elected to serve on the the Story of Stuff Project. Leonard has spent Palo Alto City Council. Re-elected twice, Liz nearly two decades investigating and was selected by her colleagues as Mayor in organizing on environmental health and 1994 and in 2000. While on the council she justice issues, traveling to over 40 countries represented the community on numerous to visit the factories where our stuff is made committees and commissions including the and the dumps where it ends up. Prior to Santa Clara County Transportation directing the Story of Stuff Project, Leonard Commission and the League of California worked for the Funders Workgroup for Cities Committee on Housing, Community Sustainable Production & Consumption, the and Economic Development. As Mayor, Liz Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives ushered in Palo Alto’s achievement as the (GAIA), Health Care Without Harm, Essential first city in the U.S. with a presence on the Action and Greenpeace International. She Internet – she also initiated Family completed her undergraduate studies at Resources, a public-private partnership to Barnard College, Columbia University and provide support for families in Palo Alto. In graduate work in City and Regional Planning 2001, Kniss began her service on the Santa at Cornell University. Clara County Board of Supervisors, representing more than 300,000 people LAURA MARTINEZ residing in the Fifth District. Re-elected in Mayor, East Palo Alto both 2004 and 2008, she was selected by her colleagues to serve as President of the Laura Martinez was recently elected the Board in 2005 and again in 2009. Kniss mayor of East Palo Alto, and at 27 years old received a BS Degree in Nursing from is one of the youngest mayors in the Simmons College in Boston and a MPA in country. She also is the Afterschool Director Public Health Care Policy from California for Aspire Public Schools in East Palo Alto, State University. She has also completed which provides a college preparatory graduate work in Health Policy and education for predominantly low-income students. A resident of East Palo Alto her Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award entire life, she has spent over ten years from the American Historical Association. working with youth and families in the She received her Bachelors of Arts from community. Martinez was selected by Silicon Smith College and earned her Masters from Valley/San Jose Business Journal as one of Northwestern University. the top 100 Women of Influence for 2012, and is the youngest council member as well SHIBANI MEHTA as the first Latina mayor to be elected to Sales Development Associate, LinkedIn East Palo Alto City Council. Shibani Mehta, a 2008 Casti graduate, JOHN MATISONN attended Columbia University, where she International Journalist & U.N. received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Commissioner Classics. Despite her deep love of Latin and Ancient Greek, she decided to pursue a John Matisonn has been published in the career in the technology sector. Mehta Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, completed a one-year internship at LinkedIn, Washington Post, Financial Times (London), experiencing both in the Mountain View and The Observer (London) and elsewhere. He New York offices, and was then promoted to was National Public Radio’s correspondent a full-time sales associate. Although she in southern Africa for six years, and misses New York, she loves the Bay Area correspondent on two documentaries for and is grateful to be working for such a PBS FRONTLINE. In the administration of dynamic and innovative company. I South African President Nelson Mandela, he served as a Councilor at the Independent CHRISTINA NAWAS Broadcasting Authority, overseeing the Science Faculty, Castilleja opening of the South African airwaves and licensing of community radio stations, Christina Nawas graduated from Castilleja in commercial broadcasting and public 2002. As a student, she was a TA, water broadcasting. After the overthrow of the polo player, Science Department Lab Tech, Taliban, he served the United Nations in and founding member of the Robotics Club. Afghanistan as Chairperson of the Electoral After graduation, she received her B.A. from Media Commission for the Wolesi Jirga Washington University in St. Louis in (parliamentary) and Provincial Council Biological Science and Education and a elections in 2005. He returned to M.Ed. in Science Education from Stanford Afghanistan in 2009 as a UN election adviser University. In addition to teaching in the for the Presidential election in 2009, and science department, she coaches stayed on as Acting Project Coordinator of Upper School and Middle School water polo the UN election operation until June 2010. In teams. Ms. Nawas is an advocate of women 1991-2 he was a William F Benton Fellow at of science and seeks to break down the the University of Chicago. traditional stereotypes of the scientists and educate everyone about themselves and PEGGY MCKEE their environment. History Faculty, Castilleja SABORE OLE OYIE Peggy McKee started her career at Castilleja Kenyan Social Entrepreneur in 1960, and although she has only taught here for over 39 years, she took a few years Sabore Ole Oyie is a Cultural Ambassador off in between to have a family, go to for Kenya and the Founder of the Oldonyo- graduate school, and explore other parts of Rasha Water Project, with vision to educate the country. Mrs. McKee is known for her women by liberating them from the task of passion for history, and she teaches an hauling water. The Oldonyo-Rasha Water assortment of regional and general history Project will create water wells closer to the classes. In addition to her work at Castilleja, community to relieve girls from the for the past 17 years Mrs. McKee has been a backbreaking chore and dangers of faculty consultant for Educational Testing collecting water at the river, allowing them Service (ETS) for AP European History and the opportunity to attend school. Sabore is a AP World History. She has served on the Maasai elder and warrior, and uses the Test Development Committee for AP World experience and knowledge gained from his History. In 2002, she was awarded the experience to educate the community on the importance of school and traditions. As development and local politics. She remains second-in-command to the chief, he active in the Castilleja community as the emphasizes youth education and economic President of the Castilleja School Alumnae development for his community. Sabore Executive Committee and, previously, the graduated in 2010 from the Global Women’s VP of Events for the Castilleja Executive Leadership Network’s Program at Santa Alumnae Association. She received a B.A. in Clara University, and since has spent his time International Relations from the University of in the bay area promoting his cause and California Davis. raising money to build wells for the Maasai tribe. ROBERT ROSENTHAL Executive Director, Center for Investigative SUDHA RAJAGOPALAN Reporting Spokeswoman, Access Braille Robert Rosenthal is the Executive Director Sudha Rajagopalan began her career as a of the Center for Investigative Reporting, software engineer in India; her passion for one the largest investigative reporting computer software brought her to the US. organizations in the nation providing news She quickly rose in managerial ranks, taking outlets such as The New York Times, up senior management positions at several Washington Post, The Los Angeles companies including Pacific Bell, Peoplesoft, Times, NPR and PBS with thoroughly Remedy, and BMC Software. In 2008, her reported content. An award-winning vision deteriorated and she unexpectedly journalist, Rosenthal has worked for some of lost her eyesight. Rajagopalan now had to the most respected newspapers in the learn how to manage a different aspect of country, including The New York her life: her visual impairment. She gained a Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia newfound appreciation for the challenges Inquirer and, most recently, the San faced by the visually impaired and set a Francisco Chronicle. As a reporter, Rosenthal personal mission to make a difference in the won numerous awards, including the lives of millions of visually impaired Overseas Press Club Award for magazine individuals across the world. She has been writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for able to fulfill this goal over the last few years distinguished foreign correspondence, and through her extensive volunteer work with the National Association of Black Journalists Access Braille, a non-profit organization Award for Third World Reporting. He was a serving the educational needs of visually Pulitzer Prize finalist in international impaired children. reporting.
URSULA RINGHAM KELLY SCHRYVER Marketing Consultant Education Content Associate, Common Sense Media Ursula Ringham is a high-tech consultant by day, author by night and mother 24×7. At Kelly Schryver works on the Education Team the start of her career, she held some at Common Sense Media, a non-profit interesting positions in the high-tech organization dedicated to helping kids and industry at innovative companies such as families thrive in a world of media and Adobe and Apple. She managed Apple’s technology. Kelly spearheaded the strategic accounts (Macromedia, Avid, development of Common Sense Media's new Digidesign), managed content for an entire Gender and Digital Life Toolkit, a suite of website (http://developer.apple.com), was educational resources that empowers young the Manager of Adobe’s Developer people to think critically about the gender Programs, the Managing Editor of the Adobe stereotypes they consume and create in the Developer Association Technical Journal, digital world. Through Common Sense and wrote and taught course curriculum Media, she has also collaborated with (FrameMaker & Acrobat). Today, she stays MissRepresentation.org and the Healthy actively engaged in the high tech industry Media Commission to encourage more through her consultative work helping positive and realistic portrayals of women marketing organizations build better brand and girls across all media. Kelly received her identity. A graduate of Castilleja, Ringham BA in American Studies from Brown grew up in Palo Alto with a family immersed University in 2011. She graduated from in commercial and residential real estate Castilleja in 2007, and still has fond memories of playing lacrosse and soccer on on Social Movements. Recent published the circle, painting in the art studio, and work has appeared in the American Journal eating enchiladas in the Dining Hall. of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological BILL SMOOT Review, Social Forces, and the Annual English Faculty, Castilleja Review of Sociology.
Bill Smoot has taught students for nearly MICHELLE SWENSON thirty years at levels ranging from sixth Executive Director, Global Women’s graders to Master's Degree candidates. At Leadership Network Castilleja, he currently teaches a variety of Upper School English classes. Mr. Smoot is Michelle Swenson, GWLN Executive also a writer, and his essays, articles, and Director, was most recently an independent short stories have been published in such consultant and worked with corporate and periodicals as The Nation, Georgia non-profit institutions on strategy, financial Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary planning, marketing, and governance. Review, Western Humanities Review, Previously, she spent 20 years as an and Philosophy Today. His two most recent executive at a Fortune 100 financial services publications are a personal essay, "Breath firm. Swenson will join the GWLN Board and and the Soul" in Under the Sun, and a short also currently serves on the boards of The story "Walking the Tracks" in Orchid. His Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University; book, Conversations with Great Teachers, Trinity School, Menlo Park; Los Ayudantes, was published by Indiana University Press in Redwood City; and Women's Initiative, May 2010. He has served as a grader for the Silicon Valley. Michelle graduated from Haas College Board and for the AP English exam. Business School at the University of He is also a fine art photographer, and his California of Berkeley in California with a work has been widely exhibited and M.B.A. in Finance. She received a B.A. degree published. He has a Bachelor of Arts from in Economics, from Duke University in North Purdue University, and earned his Masters Carolina, graduating summa cum laude. and Ph. D from Northwestern University. LAURA SYDELL SARAH SOULE NPR Program Host and Journalist Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business Laura Sydell is a long-time journalist and program host for NPR. Her work focuses on Sarah A. Soule is the Morgridge Professor of the ways in which technology is Organizational Behavior at the Stanford transforming our culture and on the ways Graduate School of Business. She received social media transforms everything from her BA in Sociology from the University of personal relationships to shopping. Before Vermont in 1989, and her PhD in Sociology joining NPR in 2003, Sydell served as a from Cornell University in 1995. She joined senior technology reporter for American the faculty of Sociology at the University of Public Media's Marketplace. Before coming Arizona in 1995, and in 2006 she moved to to San Francisco, Sydell worked as a the Sociology Department at Cornell reporter for NPR Member Station WNYC in University. In 2008, she joined the faculty at New York. She has been honored by The the Stanford Graduate School of Business. American Women in Radio and Television, Soule’s major areas of interest are The National Federation of Community organizational behavior, social movements, Broadcasters, and Women in and political sociology, and her research is Communications for her long-form radi0 situated at the intersection of all these areas. documentary work focused on individuals In particular, she seeks to understand how whose life experiences turned them into social movement theories can shed light on activists. Laura graduated magna cum organizational processes, and how laude with a bachelor's degree from William organizational theories can inform studies of Smith College in Geneva, New York, and social movements. She has just finished a earned a J.D. from Yeshiva University's book with Cambridge University Press, Cardozo School of Law. entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility. And, she recently completed a book (with David Snow) called, A Primer DR. HANNAH VALANTINE Berkeley and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Senior Associate Dean & Professor of mathematics and computer science from the Cardiovascular Medicine University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Dr. Hannah Valantine was born in Gambia, West Africa. When she was 13 years old, her LAREINA YEE family moved to London where her father Partner, McKinsey & Company served as Gambia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Valantine attended an all Lareina is a leader within the Sales and girls’ school before enrolling in London Marketing Practice specializing in high tech University to study biochemistry, and later, sales transformations. For more than 12 medicine. Valantine graduated from medical years with McKinsey, she has worked school in 1978 and did her post-graduate extensively in Asia (with a focus in China) work at Bromton and Hammersmith, two and the United States. Her most recent top hospitals in London in the field of experience includes creating a new account cardiology. In 1985, Valantine headed for the management model that both reduced costs United States to train as a fellow with two and improved customer experience; creating top cardiologists, including Norman the go-to-market strategy for a new product Shumway, at Stanford University. After a launch; developing marketing campaigns brief return to the UK, Valantine returned to based on in-depth insights about the client’s Stanford in 1987. She was awarded an customers. Lareina has been a speaker at assistant professorship two years later, and the National Sales Account Management rose to the rank of full professor in 2001. Conference, and published articles on sales transformation and collaboration ANNE WARNER technology. She is a contributing author Associate, ClearCost Health to Sales Growth and leads McKinsey's Go- To-Market workshops bringing together a Anne Warner graduated from Castilleja cross-industry range of sales leaders. Lareina School in 2008, and then continued her also co-led McKinsey’s research with education at Stanford University. During that the Wall Street Journal on “Women in the US time, Warner spent two quarters in Cape Economy.” She is on the San Francisco Town, South Africa, teaching social studies Ballet School Committee and has led a pro- to Middle School students. In 2012, she bono effort with San Francisco Ballet completed her honors thesis on post- looking at their marketing-based apartheid South Africa. Currently, she works opportunities. She received her B.A. from in public policy as an Associate at ClearCost Columbia University and earned her M.A in Health. Economic Theory and Policy from Columbia University School of International Public MARTHA WEEKS Affairs. Speech Coach, Stanford University
Martha Weeks has more than 25 years CHRISTI ZALESKI experience in the high-tech industry in VP of Operations, The School Fund international sales and marketing. Since 1993, she has been an independent Christi Zaleski is the Vice President of marketing communications consultant Outreach at The School Fund, a person-to- specializing in speechwriting. Her clients person platform that links students in the include HP, Oracle, Symantec, and numerous developing world directly with funders start-up companies. Prior to consulting, around the globe. Zaleski came to The Martha sold software for the network School Fund with a background in teaching management company, NetLabs. She and an interest in sharing stories through worked at HP offices in California, Germany, outreach. She was drawn to TSF for their and France in a variety of marketing mission to help connect people across positions, including channel program cultures while advancing educational manager, product manager, and sales opportunity. She graduated from Brown development engineer. Martha earned an University in 2011. MBA from the University of California-
Grade-Level Share-Out Information
Each grade-level team will have 5 minutes to “share” their grade level project with the community on Friday, Jan. 11.
Please be sure to address the following in the share-out:
How does your project relate to the Global Week theme of Social Change?
How did your experience this week inspire you to “Stand Up and/or Speak Out”?
What is an example of a product you created or an activity you did that exemplifies the Global Week theme?
ACE Workshop Share-Out Information
Each ACE Workshop will have 2 – 3 minutes to share highlights from the workshop. If these highlights include visuals, please email them in the form of a PowerPoint slide to Emily Entress ([email protected]) by 6 PM on Thursday, January 10.
Passport: Museum Experience
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