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Just a few audience comments on the WomenGirlsLadies panel:
"Thank you for your inspirational work--though an hour lecture may seem small, it's still important and impactful."
"Very inspiring to hear each of your stories and to see how far your ladies have come in life."
"Keep spreading these positive and empowering messages."
"You've given me the kick in the pants I needed to revive my own activism."
"I was impressed that you touched on race and the stereotypes that race and culture have had and how they've especially affected women."
"I admire the way you interact with every person who has a question or comment for you, treating them with warmth and respect. You field questions and engage in dialogue with poise, wisdom, and humor." ---Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law, Columbia University
“compelling, empowering"--Carole Curtis, Hadassah national convention director
"I find it fascinating to have the perspective and historical view that Gloria Feldt delivers so eloquently. Ms. Feldt engaged me in a whole new conversation that will resonate for quite a long time. Not only did she offer insightful commentary, but she shared a concise and logical strategy for moving more women into the forefront of leadership from the house on Main Street to the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. Gloria Feldt has not only a roadmap for this journey, but the grace to share it as well."--Julia C. Patrick, Publisher, Frontdoors Lifestyle News
"Nobody says it like Gloria Feldt."--Anna Clark, Blogger at Isak
Thank You Gloria. Our listener response to your appearance was so positive that we could not field the Facebook and emails of people who loved what you were saying. You truly are an inspiration to us. Kim Kelly& Eddie Russell, My Crew
''Gloria really offered me a fresh perspective on Choice Rights. Her seminar class was amazing, and it made my life richer. :)''--Lindsay Cashen, ASU student
Speaking Events
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I can't begin to tell you how I excited I am to have been shosen to be on the closing keynote plenary panel at the premier women bloggers' conference BlogHer2010. The particulars:
Closing Keynote: How to Use Your Voice, Your Platform and Your Power
Empowerment is a constant theme at and on BlogHer. All signs point to others recognizing our power – as a group and as a demographic. How are we leveraging that power as individuals? How should we be?
Now that we know marketers and advertisers seek the opinions of women (who make over 80% of consumer purchases) and their blogs, how can we control what we are being sold? Now that we know having a unique presence online has turned us into “personal brands,” how can we use it to our best professional advantage? Now that we’re each part of the large BlogHer community and many sub-communities, how can we harness and strategically focus that collective power? How and when and for what can and should we turn on the power spigot?
Need to Know PBS anchor Alison Stewart moderates a powerhouse panel: Marie Wilson, Founder and President of The White House Project (and creator of Take Our Daughters to Work Day!), author and activist Gloria Feldt from Heartfeldt Politics and P. Simran Sethi, Emmy Award-winning journalist, blogger and environmentalist.
As the GOP has garnered victories in Massachussetts, Virginia and New Jersey since the 2008 presidential election, progressives are looking for a new path to keep the seats they have and win back the ones they've lost. Standard playbook assumptions about where, how and why progressives can win campaigns have been turned on their head as increasing numbers of voters feel disaffected and Tea Partiers throw wild cards into many races. Progressive women can embrace this moment to help move the progressive agenda forward. But too often the Democratic Party fails to recruit and support the very women candidates who could be game changers for progressive politics. We'll discuss how the growing numbers of activist women—and organizations devoted to helping them participate in politics and political leadership—can help reconnect voters with important progressive economic and gender issues. And we'll analyze how to access the untapped power of women who want to make a difference for progressive issues and what it will take to get them elected. OH, and we'll talk about the mama grizzlies...
Pleas join us on Friday, July 23rd 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM...Brasilia 2
If I do say so myself, I have put together a superstar panel. Besides myself, you'll get to hear and talk with:
Barbara Lee is a national leader in the effort to promote women's political leadership and powerful participation in our democracy and in the arts.
The Barbara Lee Family Foundation, which Lee founded and leads, is recognized nationally for investing in women in politics. Lee is the driving force behind the Foundation's groundbreaking "Governors Guidebook" series, which combines original research with nationally-distributed practical guides for women candidates seeking executive office.
Lee has leveraged her belief in empowering women in politics by endowing the Barbara Lee Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which trains women for political office in the United States, and the Barbara Lee Political Intern Fellowship Program at Simmons College.
Joanne Bamberger is a recovering attorney, author and political/media analyst living in the shadow of the nation’s capital. She’s also known around the blogosphere as PunditMom!
PunditMom blog is the home of op-ed commentary by Joanne, who is also a freelance writer and former op-ed columnist for The Washington Examiner. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including The Washington Post, various American Lawyer Media publications, Legal Times, Washingtonian Magazine, and many others.
A new media expert and authority on political involvement of women and mothers, Joanne is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and a featured columnist at CafeMom’s The Stir where she writes a weekly feature called Speaker of the House. Joanne also writes at MomsRising and MOMocrats, and was a contributing editor for news and politics at BlogHer. Her political commentary has appeared on CNN, Fox News, ABC.com, BBC Radio, NPR, Al Jazeera English & XM Radio POTUS ‘08, among others.
Joanne speaks frequently at conferences and to private groups about the growing influence of women/mothers in politics and social media. She has presented and participated in panels at Netroots Nation 2009, the Feminist Majority Foundation, EMILY’s List, BlogHer, Fem 2.0, Type-A Mom Conference, WAM! 2009, the Women’s Media Center and others.
Pam Spaulding is the editor and publisher of PamsHouseBlend.com, honored as Best LGBT Blog in the 2005 and 2006 Weblog Awards. In 2009, she was named one of Huffington Post's Ultimate Game Changers in Politics, received the Women's Media Center Award for Online Journalism, and named one of the OUT 100. Spaulding lives in Durham, NC.
The great thing about Second Life is that you can design your own body. However, it was Ilse the t-shirt designer who gave me these boobs, not me. Anyway, I hope you can join host Jay Ackroyd, author Lynn Harris (who is also quite fond of her well-endowed avatar, youth activist Shelby Knox, and me discussing 21st century feminism--where obviously we women wear our bodies proudly. Details here: 9pm EDT June 24! You can participate in Second Life or listen on Blogtalk Radio.
Save the Dates! I'll provide more information on each as I have it, but I wanted you to know about these exciting upcoming events. Hope to see you at one or more.
Netroots Nation 2010--I'm facilitating a panel "Why Women Are the Key to the Future of Progressive Election Victories" sometime between July 22-26. Las Vegas NV.
BlogHer '10 Closing Keynote Panel on women and individual empowerment, August 7. New York City
UMKC Starr Symposium will feature the WomenGirlsLadies talking intergenerationally about work/life balance issues on Sept. 28. Kansas City MO.
My life is nothing if not diverse. Last week, I spoke at Northwestern University's Sex Week and May 11 I'll be switching into leadership mode to participate in a panel to launch Amily Antonetti's fascinating new book, The Recipe: a Fable for Leaders and Teams.
If you're in New York City, please join us for a lively conversation at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble, 66th and Broaway, Tuesday, May 11, at 7:30pm.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 09:16PM 
