We are sorry to share that due to the COVID pandemic, we will not be holding our Advocacy Summit in 2021.
2020 Agenda:
8:00am Registration, Networking, Light Breakfast & Exhibit Table Visits 9:00am Welcome & Kick Off by Sara Finger 9:20am "Whad'ya Know" Women's Health Policy Trivia 9:30am Morning Keynote: Dr. Lauren Powell, Executive Director of TIME'S UP Healthcare 10:15am Morning Break 10:45am Presentation by Sally Bean with Zonta International 11:15am SHE Speaks Series 12:00pm Networking Lunch Break 1:00pm SHE Speaks Series 1:45pm Defending Our Democracy Panel 2:45pm Networking Break 3:15pm Afternoon Keynote: Dr. Monique Liston 3:45pm Opportunities to Take Action 4:00pm Closing & Door Prize Drawing Exhibitors
Need Lodging?A block of rooms has been reserved at the Best Western Premier Park Hotel for Sunday, March 8th under the "2020 WI Women’s Health Advocacy Summit Conference Block". A discounted rate of $139 is being offered to our attendees.
If you need a room, book online or call (608) 285-8000 and ask for the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health block rate by February 16th. |
2020 EMPOWER LEVEL SPONSORS
2020 ENGAGE LEVEL SPONSORS
2020 EDUCATE LEVEL SPONSORS
Media Sponsor
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Keynote Speakers
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Lauren Powell, MPA, PhD, Executive Director of TIME'S UP Healthcare
Dr. Lauren Powell leads TIME’S UP Healthcare, which is focused on reducing sexual harassment and discrimination towards providers and patients alike in all health care-related fields. A lifelong champion of racial and social equity, Lauren joins TIME’S UP from the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Health Equity (OHE), where she pioneered innovative programs and initiatives to increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in health across the Commonwealth.
Lauren holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana, a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Doctorate in Clinical & Population Health Research from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. |
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Monique Liston, PhD, Black Woman
Monique was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She attended undergraduate college at Howard University in Washington, DC where she obtained a BA in Sociology. She obtained a MPA from the University of Delaware and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She teaches at Marquette University and is proudly the Chief Strategist and Joyful Militant at UBUNTU Research and Evaluation, an organization that embraces Black women's thought, livelihood and leadership. She finds her spiritual work is in leadership and facilitation. She is a daughter, sister, friend, and warrior. Monique cannot wait for the masses to rise up in revolutionary love and propose a new system that rejects the white supremacist capitalist militarist heteropatriarchy so she can focus on her love of food and feeding people. As best as she knows how, she is doing the work that the ancestors set out for her.
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2020 S.H.E. Speakers
Denise Jess
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Denise Jess - "Authentic Kindness in Service of Engagement"
As a woman who is legally blind, I am reminded daily of our society’s conflicted feelings and attitudes about disability, in the ways people talk to/about me and interact or ignore me. Some of these interactions create barriers to access and opportunities, while others are liberating. What’s one key that pivots the situation from limiting to empowering? Authentic kindness. |
Veronica Figueroa-Velez
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Veronica Figueroa-Velez - "My Deepest Wound Became My Masterpiece"
It is not the fear of failure that kidnaps us but the fear of being a creative success. As a Latina living in the United States I had to resource to creativity to find my voice art became my form of expression in all of its forms and motherhood awoke my hiding strength and transformed my wound into liberation. |
Dr. Jasmine Zapata
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Jasmine Zapata, MD - "Combating Racial Inequities in Infant Mortality: A Personal and Professional Journey"
Dr. Zapata will use the power of storytelling to highlight her personal and professional journey as a mother and physician on the forefront of combating racial inequities in infant mortality and adverse maternal child health outcomes. |
Ana Karen Manriquez Prado
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Ana Karen Manriquez Prado - "My Body, My Mind, and the Space In Between"
I began dieting when I was four years old. Since then my relationship with food has dictated many of my life decisions and, as a result, my life experiences. The intersectional nature of my identity—being a fat, brown, young immigrant woman—and growing up in the Midwest, has often left my mind and body feeling disconnected. Sharing my journey is an act of resistance against the socio-cultural norms that continue to stigmatize female bodies. With this intention I hope to inspire myself, and others feeling disconnected, to continue healing the space in between. |
Tekema Balentine
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Tekema Balentine - "How to Turn Obstacles into Opportunities"
My entire childhood it was made very clear to me that I would not be afforded the same opportunities as other children around me. I was told I would have to try 10x harder than other children just to be average. It almost felt normal to feel less than competent until I figured out that not every obstacle is meant to stop you. Today I'd like to share with you how I manage to turn my obstacles in opportunities. |
Shehrose Charania
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Shehrose Charania - "A Ban on Dreams: A Story of Breaking Barriers"
I will be talking about what it meant growing up as a Muslim American woman in the healthcare system in the United States. Additionally, I will be sharing a spoken word piece and poetry that reflects on how I reclaim pain and oppression to champion it into a story of hope and optimism. |
Special Presentation Speaker
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Sally Bean,
Zonta International 
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Sally currently serves Zonta International as Convention 2020 Chairman. In this role, she is leading the planning and execution of the biennial convention. Previously she served as the Development Committee Chairman for the Zonta International Foundation. In that role, she led the global effort to raise over $5M in two years through the generosity of Zonta clubs and individuals. This funding advanced the mission of Zonta by empowering women and girls through education programs across the world, and through service projects in Liberia, Madagascar, Nepal and Niger. She was elected International Director 2014-2016 and previously served on the International Nominating Committee and International Membership Committee. Sally joined Zonta in 1991 and has held the top leadership roles in her club and her district prior to serving at the international level. Zonta International is a leading global organization of professionals empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy.
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Protecting Our Democracy Panel
Carlene Bechen, Wisconsin Voices
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Sara Eskrich, Democracy Found
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Anita Johnson, VoteRiders
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Shauntay Nelson, All Voting is Local
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2019 Summit featured:
Exhibitors
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2019 EMPOWER LEVEL SPONSORS
2019 ENGAGE LEVEL SPONSORS
2019 EDUCATE LEVEL SPONSORS
Media Sponsor
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeanette Kowalik, Milwaukee Commissioner of Health
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Dr. Jeanette Kowalik has over a decade of progressive public health experience representing the life course. She began her career as an intern at the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD). Jeanette was drawn to public health, so she attended Northern Illinois University’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program while maintaining full-time employment in the field. Post completion of her MPH, Jeanette attended the Management Academy for Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; she began her doctorate in health sciences at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Milwaukee shortly thereafter. Her initial focus was infant mortality disparities among African American and Latinx adolescents; this shifted after she realized the significant gap in research regarding recruitment and retention of the public health workforce. Jeanette completed her coursework and dissertation while working full time for the Wauwatosa Health Department, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, and the Chicago Department of Public Health. In the fall of 2014, Dr. Kowalik returned to Wisconsin and served as UW-Madison’s Director of Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives prior to her transition to the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) in Washington DC. Jeanette served as the Associate Director of Women’s and Infant Health at AMCHP, a professional membership
organization for maternal and child health professionals nationwide. Dr. Kowalik left AMCHP in September of 2018 to return to her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to serve as the Commissioner of Health. She is inspired and motivated to move the MHD forward to maximize community impact. Dr. Kowalik’s diverse set of experiences continues to motivate her to advocate and represent those who are unable to “have a seat at the table.” |
2019 S.H.E. Speakers
Dana World Patterson, Foundations for Freedom
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Fabiola Hamdan
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Angela Lang, BLOC
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Paula Tran Inzeo
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Vanessa McDowell, YWCA Madison
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Livia Rowell-Ortiz
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Raising Youth Voices Panel
Imani Ray
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Anahi Mancillas Mares
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Ashli Lyles
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Lydia Hester
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Women's Health & the Environment Panel
Susan Davidson, MD
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Huda Alkaff
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Jennifer Giegerich
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State Rep. Greta Neubauer, Moderator
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Women Running to Lead Panel
Lori Hawkins
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Lee Snodgrass
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Wren Keturi
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Danielle McClendon-Williams
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Kelda Roys, Moderator
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Graphic Reports from Summit
Thank you to Mary Michaud with VisualLeverage for creating these beautiful and powerful graphic reports from our Summit.
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Sara Finger, Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health
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Monica Simpson, SisterSong
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Lisa Peyton-Caire, Foundation for Black Women's Wellness
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Wenona Wolf, Kids Forward & We Are Healers
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Lisa Pugh, The Arc
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Watch This Highlight Video from the 2016 Summit
WWHPS16 Highlight Video from WAWH on Vimeo.
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Quick links
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