PLENARY KEYNOTE

9am - 10am

Jill Schlesinger

CBS News Analyst and Author of “The Dumb Things Smart People Do With Their Money”

PLENARY SESSION

10am - 11am

“Leveraging Our Positions to Disrupt Bias and Build More Equitable Pathways to Success”

Moderator: 

Sheryl Axelrod

President, The Axelrod Firm, PC; Forum member

Panelists:

Eileen Letts

Partner, Zuber Lawler

Past Co-Chair, ABA Commission on Diversity & Inclusion 360; Past ABA Margaret Brent Awardee; Co-author of “Left Out and Left Behind, The Hurdles, Hassles, and Heartaches of Achieving Long-Term Legal Careers for Women of Color”
 

Melissa Pang

Assistant General Counsel, The School District of Philadelphia

Past President, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania; Member, Chancellor’s Diversity Advisory Panel of the Philadelphia Bar Association

Learn about bias in the workplace, what your company can gain from minimizing unseen barriers to the advancement of women, including historically underrepresented groups, and how you can actually work to remove those unseen barriers.

PARTICIPATE IN ONE OF OUR BREAKOUT SESSIONS

11am – noon

Breakout Session #1 

“2020 Vision: Progress and Barriers to a Fully Participatory Democracy”

Panelists:

Kathy Boockvar

Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Department of State

Sharmain Matlock-Turner

President and CEO, Urban Affairs Coalition; Forum Member 

Sozi Pedro Tulante

Partner, Dechert LLP; Former Philadelphia City Solicitor

Learn about how the current environment and other barriers may change the 2020 election and which changes may outlast the 2020 election and imagine what our election system might look like if we redesigned it.

Breakout Session #2 

“Reimagining Culture in Times of Accelerating Change”

Moderator: 

Lorina Marshall-Blake

President, Independence Blue Cross Foundation

Panelists:

Allison Green

SVP, Chief Diversity Officer, The Lincoln Financial Group; Forum member

Phoebe Haddon

Chair, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Kate Shields

Chief Executive Officer, Vault Communications; Forum Member

EVENT AND REGISTRATION DETAILS

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