Featured Guest Speakers: 

Mariam Kabha, Commissioner of Social Equality, Ministry of Labor Guadalupe Gómez-Maganda, Head of Gender Equity Unit in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Over 120 participants gathered to discuss advanced policies and practices on the status of women in the workforce at this important conference. Welcome and opening remarks were presented by NCJW SF Board President Dena Gardi, U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Regional Representative Elmy Bermejo, San Francisco Supervisor Katy Tang, and the Consul Generals of Israel and Mexico. The Master of Ceremonies was Emily Murase, Director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. 

Keynote Speakers:

San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessy and San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White delivered inspiring keynote speeches presenting about their careers and personal stories of getting involved in their specific professional fields.

Featured Speakers and Moderators included also:

Guadalupe Gómez-Maganda, Head of Gender Equity Unit in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Roberta Steele, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Regional Attorney, San Francisco District Office; Nancy Kirshner-Rodriguez, Executive Director, CA Commission on the Status of Women; Andrea Shorter, President, San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women; Fabiola Kramsky, Founder & CEO of Tuiris, Inc.; Breanna Zwart, Google Access Strategy Team and Commissioner, SF Commission on the Status of Women.

Afternoon workshops:

• Equal Pay and Equal Employment Opportunities

• Safety Net and Protection in the Workplace

• Integration of Minority Women in the Workforce

• Women in Technology

The participants in the conference voted to approve a resolution with recommendations for improved policies on women in the workforce and agreed to continue their collaborative work in the future. The plenary of the conference created a task force consisting of representatives of the organizers to work on developing a mechanism for regular meetings of the partners. Stay tuned for information about further actions associated with this collaborative initiative. 

Download the full program HERE.

Thank you to everyone who attended our workshop. We delved into the rich experience of mentoring and the fascinating dynamics of human trafficking at this training for prospective volunteers. This event was open to anyone who has a general interest in human trafficking and/or would like to learn more about NCJWSF’s exciting new mentoring program. 

The launch event included an in-depth exploration of Human Trafficking 101:

• The newest techniques being used by traffickers to recruit children in the Bay Area.

• The impact of trauma upon girls.

• An interactive exercise where attendees get to experience a “day in the life” of a young girl at risk for victimization.

• A trafficking survivor’s personal account of her inspiring story and the impact of mentoring.

Click HERE to download the training schedule

April 8, 2014

NCJW SF Office, 2000 Van Ness Ave, Suite 411, San Francisco, CA 94109

Helen Liang, Global Citizenship Fellow with U.S. Fund for UNICEF spoke about human rights abuses, in which children are exploited through practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, commercial sex, begging and child soldiering. The curriculum of the workshop is designed in line with Middle and High School                                               Common Core State Standards and National                                               Content Standards. Portions of the documentary                                         film "Not My Life" were shown and guided through                                       a discussion on how to prevent human trafficking.