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Appointments Training
(geared toward women)

Want to be more politically involved? California Women Lead, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for Gender Equity, and UCSF Community and Governmental Relations invite you to a workshop to learn how to apply for and get appointed to a board or commission.

DATE: Thursday, February 18, 2010
TIME: 5:30 to 7:30 pm
LOCATION: UCSF School of Nursing, Room N225
(Enter 513 Parnassus Avenue, go up staircase, exit via doors to courtyard, cross to School of Nursing building, see map and additional directions)

Please note: Cookies & refreshments will be provided!

This FREE workshop will guide you through the appointments process by:

Making you aware of the board and commission openings in your area;
Helping you assess your strengths through a Personal Inventory worksheet;
Guiding you through the application process;
Helping you learn about the State appointments process.

Speakers include:

Fiona Ma, Member of the California State Assembly, 12th District
Rachel Michelin, Executive Director/CEO California Women Lead & Gubernatorial Appointee
Betty Yee, Chairwoman, State Board of Equalization, District 1 & CA Women Lead State Board of Directors Member
John Cruz, Appointments Secretary, Office of the Governor
Sophie Maxwell, Supervisor, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 10

Workshop made possible by the generosity of our sponsors: Kaiser Permanente and State Farm Insurance as well as our community partners: San Francisco Women's Political Caucus, Filipina Women's Network, the California Commission on the Status of Women, and EMERGE.

California Women Lead is a statewide, nonpartisan, nonprofit association dedicated to leadership and campaign training, policy discussion and networking opportunities for women who hold - or are interested in holding - elected or appointed office. Our membership is open to anyone who is committed to encouraging women in public office. To find out more about a membership with California Women Lead and to learn more about our programs, please visit www.cawomenlead.org, call 916-551-1920 or email admin@cawomenlead.org.

The series below is a follow-up to the OpEd Project at UCSF programs hosted in the Summer and Fall of 2009 (click here for details). Enrollment in this series is limited to participants in the original programs.

You are now part of a 3000-strong community of (mostly) women experts across the nation who have the power to change the world of public debate -- including 60 of you who participated in three day long programs at UCSF this fall. Many of you asked for follow up support, and we are intensely interested in helping you publish op-eds and more generally be known for your thought leadership positions in your field - because we measure our success by your success. Therefore, we - the OpEd Project and the UCSF Center for Gender Equity - are offering a pilot series of follow up OpEd workshops specifically for the UCSF community, to support you in getting there. Would you like to take the rough draft op-ed you crafted during the seminar (or any op-ed draft), and take it to completion with the guidance of an extremely experienced mentor-editor, over a few weeks? Would you be interested in a follow-up writing workshop with other OpEd Project graduates? And in being able to network with other thought leaders in your area? If so, be a part of our inaugural workshop! In this four-session writing workshop series, you will put The OpEd Project seminar into practice. Drawing on peer feedback and one-on-one instruction from a mentor-editor, participants will refine their skills and write, polish, and pitch at least one op-ed.You will doshort writing exercises, workshop articles as a group, and discuss the nuts and bolts of writing effective arguments.
Dates:	Monday, January 25, 2010 Monday, February 1, 2010 Monday, February 8, 2010 (no class President's Day February 15, 2010) Monday, February 22, 2010	Register Here pre-registration required
Time:	6:30 – 8:30 PM There will be an open hour from 5:30 – 6:30 PM for one-on-one assistance and individual writing time.
Location:	UCSF Parnassus Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus Avenue Room S-170 for all dates except February 1st Room S-176 for February 1st session
Cost:	$240.00 per person Please note: This is a subsidized rate for UCSF participants, and contingent on at least 10 participants.
About the Instructor: Laura Mazer is an OpEd Project Adviser and Mentor-Editor. She is a veteran Op-Ed editor, book editor, and publishing consultant. In the 1990s, she was the managing editor of Creators Syndicate, the international agency that represents some of the most widely published opinion writers around the globe, including Molly Ivins, Arianna Huffington, Hillary Clinton, Tony Snow, Robert Novak, Susan Estrich, Benazir Bhutto, and Pat Buchanan. The columns she has edited have appeared in close to every daily newspaper in the country, and many international papers as well. Laura is also a book editor, having worked with publishing houses such as Avalon Publishing Group, Perseus Books Group, Soft Skull Books, Sierra Books, Counterpoint Press, and Random House. Her focus as a book developer is on nonfiction and groundbreaking cultural analysis. In the 1990s, Laura was a senior editor at Brill's Content magazine, a fiercely independent monthly magazine that kept a close eye on media’s cultural and political influence. She has served as the columns editor at the award-winning literary magazine Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined, and as the special sections editor at the Los Angeles Times.

UCSF Premiere - Straightlaced: How Gender's got us All Tied Up

Wednesday, Oct. 28: 5:30pm, Health Sciences West 302
Thursday, Oct. 29: 12pm, Health Sciences West 303
(Enter Medical Sciences at 513 Parnassus, go up stairs, go out glass doors, and turn left up the courtyard to Health Sciences West)

In this moving and powerful new documentary from SF's own Groundspark, teens who identify as straight, LGBT, and questioning open up their lives to the camera: choosing between “male” and “female” deodorant, deciding whether to go along with anti-gay taunts in the locker room, having the courage to take ballet, avoiding the restroom so they won’t get beaten up, mourning the suicide of a classmate. As they talk with courage, candor, and humor, it becomes clear how gender stereotypes and gender policing affect them (and all of us)--and how teens and adults alike can create a more inclusive, empowering culture.

Presented by the LGBT Resource Center and co-sponsored by the UCSF Center for Gender Equity

AUTUMN GEM: A Documentary on China's First Feminist

Friday, September 25
6:00 - 8:00pm
Cole Hall Auditorium
UCSF Medical Sciences Building
513 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143

Who knew there were feminists in China over a hundred years ago? Meet
the "Chinese Joan of Arc," Qiu Jin (1875-1907), a radical women's
rights activist and leader of a revolutionary army who attempted an
armed uprising against the corrupt Qing Dynasty. Qiu Jin boldly
challenged traditional gender roles and redefined what it meant to be
a woman in early 20th-century China.

Starring martial arts champion and Hollywood stunt actress Li Jing
(http://jingaction.com).

Join us for a free screening and Q-and-A session with filmmakers Rae
Chang and Adam Tow. Complimentary food and drinks provided. Sponsored
by BioBridge at UCSF and the UCSF Cultural Enrichment Fund.

http://autumn-gem.com

Sponsored by BioBridge at UCSF, the UCSF Cultural Enrichment Fund and
the UCSF Center for Gender Equity

The OpEd Project: How to Write to Change the World

Dates:    Friday, August 7, 2009 | Friday, September 11, 2009 | Friday, October 23, 2009
Time:        9am to 4pm
Location: UCSF Laurel Heights, Suite 15, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA
Cost:         $200 for UCSF Staff/Faculty/Students, $240 for Community Members

The Center for Gender Equity invites you to participate in an innovative program to expand public debate in our nation's key print and online forums.

How to Write to Change the World

This seminar is not about writing; it's about making a bold case for what you believe in and making a difference in the world.

Why this matters: Our position is not that women need our help, but just the opposite: we think public debate needs women. Our national conversation currently reproduces the voices and opinions of only a small fraction of society: 85% male. Worse among academics: a 2008 Rutgers University study found that 97% of op-eds by scholars in the Wall Street Journal are written by men. What is the cost to society when half of the nation’s best minds and best ideas – women’s minds and women’s ideas – are missing?

The nation’s key opinion forums feed all other media and drive thought leadership in America. The op-ed pages and commentary forums of major media outlets – whether print, online, or broadcast – are followed by diplomats, business-people, scholars, and those in the highest levels of government. They can sway public opinion and change the world. And these forums are open to all of us – including those without publishing experience.

The OpEd Project’s highly interactive and energetic day-long seminar will push you to hone the ideas and causes that you care about, and write about them to make a difference. We will explore the source of credibility and how to establish it quickly; the patterns and elements of a powerful argument; the difference between being “right” and being effective; how to preach beyond the choir, how to think bigger about what we know, and how to make a bigger impact on the world. Time permitting, we will also develop these concepts into concrete op-eds or op-ed drafts for each participant; explore strategies for increasing impact; discuss etiquette and strategies for pitching and how to build relationships with editors and publishers. We may also discuss a sampling of the greatest arguments of all time—essays, speeches and op-eds that have changed the world—so that we can consider why they were so powerful and what approaches and techniques we might borrow.

The seminar is capped at 20 people, and participants will have ongoing access not only to each other but also – if they wish – to the broader OpEd Project community, including our staff and network of Mentor-Editors (highly experienced media professionals who have agreed to review the draft op-eds of women who come through The OpEd Project program).

The Op-Ed Project—featured by The New York Times, Katie Couric and The San Francisco Chronicle—is an initiative to radically expand and enrich public debate, and to dramatically increase the number of women in thought leadership positions. Working with universities, think tanks, nonprofits, corporations and community leaders across the nation, we target and train top women experts in all fields to write op-eds, connect them with each other and with our network of mentor-editors, and channel them to media gatekeepers in print, online, television radio, and more. Read more about the project at http://www.theopedproject.org/cms/

The Op-Ed Project’s WRITE TO CHANGE THE WORLD Seminars show you how to make a bold, fair, persuasive case for the ideas and causes you believe in. You’ll learn how to establish immediate credibility, craft a powerful argument, preach beyond the choir, think bigger about what you know and make a bigger impact on the world.

Participants have published pieces in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, Huffington Page home page, and also one piece that was #2 on Google news and had 20,000 hits in the first hour.

Co-sponsored by Campus Life Services, Arts & Events

Bad Mother

Date:               Tuesday September 29, 2009
Time:               Noon to 1PM (book signing 1 to 1:30pm)
Location:         UCSF Parnassus, School of Nursing, Room N-217 (see map)
Cost:                Free and open to the public (no registration needed!)

Four years ago, novelist Ayelet Waldman sparked a controversy — and wound up on Oprah to defend herself — when she wrote in an essay that she loved her husband more than her children. Now, in the memoir Bad Mother, Waldman details the fall-out of that essay, as well as what she calls "the perils and joys of trying to be a decent mother in a world intent on making you feel like a bad one." Using self-mocking humor and personal insights, please join Ayelet for a provocative talk about the pressures of motherhood.

Ayelet Waldman is the author of The New York Times bestseller Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace, a collection of essays. Ayelet is also the author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper and the Mommy-Track Mysteries. Her essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. The film version of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is now in the post-production, with Don Roos as screenwriter and director, and Natalie Portman in the lead role. http://www.ayeletwaldman.com/

- POSTPONED -
Female Genital Mutilation: Change Through Understanding

Place: Cole Hall (1st floor, Medical Sciences Building, Parnassus, see map)
Presenter: Riham Shebl

In January 2009, NPR broadcast that 200 girls as young as 8 had to run away from home and leave their families in Sudan to avoid genital mutilation. Riham Shebl is a feminist, Muslim scholar who resides in Egypt where the practice is spreading. Her own narrative is portrayed in a documentary funded by the Ford Foundation and she addresses the deeper issues this practice represents within the cultural context. Her research includes study of how the Koran supports feminism and her work is dedicated to understanding and stopping female genital mutilation. This program will include a screening of two documentaries, a provocative presentation and an enlightening discussion.

Cosponsors: UCSF Student Activity Center, Graduate Students Association (GSA), Nursing Student Council and Center for Gender Equity.

Advancing Your Career in Uncertain Times

The UCSF Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, Center for Gender Equity and Campus Human Resources present a three-part series of workshops to help you manage your career. Attend one workshop or all three! Free and open to all.

Financial Planning Geared Toward Women:
Improve Your Financial I.Q.

Date:                June 11, 2009
Time:                Noon to 1PM
Location**:      Nursing Building, Room 217 (enter 513 Parnassus Ave, see map)
        **Will be simulcast to Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, Room S261 (see map) and UCSF Fresno, 155 N. Fresno Street, Room 116.

Download Financial IQ Handouts

Take stock of your money wisdom and “Get Financially Smart!” This interactive workshop will help you improve yourself financially. Expect to succeed and learn the steps you need to stay on track. The information and handouts in this workshop will lead you through a self assessment process:

How to assess your financial position
How to determine your financial goals
How to ensure a sound retirement
How to handle your money in each stage of your life

Leona Lau, CFP ®, EA will be conducting this session. Leona is a fee-only certified financial planner and enrolled agent in private practice since 1991. She established her practice on the belief that consumers in today’s economic environment require tax and financial planning counsel with demonstrated skill and high level of experience. Her clientele includes small business owners, high net-worth individuals/couples and U.S. citizens associated with large corporations working abroad. In addition, she has provided financial information for articles on the Lifetime TV website.

Interviewing

Date:                May 19, 2009
Time:                Noon to 1PM
Location:          Nursing Building, Rm 225 (enter 513 Parnassus Ave, see map)

A candidate’s goal should be to get her/his core message across to the hiring manager, regardless of that person’s skill as an interviewer. The interview should also be an opportunity for the candidate to ask questions about the company or organization with which they are interviewing. Lee Hecht Harrison’s Interviewing Workshop replaces the traditional interview model, in which an inordinate amount of responsibility is placed on the communication skills of the interviewer, with a Strategic Interviewing model. Strategic Interviewing places more focus on creating a dialogue about organizational needs and the needs of the hiring manager, allowing the candidate to tailor her/his statements to address those needs using appropriate accomplishment stories. Participants will explore and prepare for different types of interviews including screening interviews, telephone interviews, group or panel interviews, first and second interviews, as well as traditional versus behavior based interviews.

Topics covered in this workshop will include:

Communicating background, skills and experience
The importance of non-verbal communication
Asking the right questions
Sensitive Issues

A certified Lee Hecht Harrison career consultant will conduct the session.

Resume Writing

Date:                April 7, 2009
Time:                Noon to 1PM
Location:          HSW Rm 301 (enter 513 Parnassus Ave, see map)

Download the Resume Guide

Your resume, like all communications, makes the case for why you are a good candidate for your stated professional objective. A resume is not a biography. It needs to cover just enough to make you a credible candidate. It must also conform closely enough to the conventions of resume writing so as not to annoy readers or make them suspicious. It is also important to keep your target market in mind and use the language of that target market to address what are likely to be their collective needs and wants.

Topics covered in this workshop will include:

Positioning Statements
Accomplishment Stories
Resume Format

A certified Lee Hecht Harrison career consultant will conduct the session.

Lee Hecht Harrison is a highly respected global firm that specializes in outplacement, career development, executive coaching, retention and workforce management services. Founded in 1974, our reputation has been built on high quality consulting, individually customized services and total responsiveness to our clients’ needs. Our programs are always tailored so emphasis is placed where it should be in each situation. Lee Hecht Harrison serves its clients in over 240 offices in 41 countries, and is the global leader in creating and delivering distinctive human capital solutions and partnering with organizations and individuals to maximize their performance. Our experience includes working with respected educational institutions.

PRAGMATIC ADVICE FOR YOUR CAREER:
What you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!

May 20, 2009
4 – 5 pm
Mission Bay Genentech Auditorium - see map
Simulcast to HSW 301 Parnassus Campus - see map)

Whether you are looking for the right job, steadily progressing, or feeling stuck, you will benefit from the collected insight Judy Heyboer brings. Her commitment to share direct and honest feedback on what it takes to be successful in today's complicated corporate world will inspire you! She has spent the last 30 years in Human Resources, primarily in life science companies. She retired as Senior Vice President at Genentech in 2000, and has devoted the last seven years to executive coaching, interventional HR, and non-profit work. She is passionate about mentoring and creating corporate cultures where people can contribute to their full potential. Don’t miss this inspiring and dynamic conversation!

Presented by The UCSF Center for Gender Equity in collaboration with Student Academic Affairs, Office of Career and Professional Development, Graduate Student Association (GSA), Postdoctoral Scholars Association (PSA) and Women in Life Sciences (WILS)

- POSTPONED -
Female Genital Mutilation: Change Through Understanding

Place: Cole Hall (1st floor, Medical Sciences Building, Parnassus, see map)
Presenter: Riham Shebl

The UCSF Center for Gender Equity, Student Health Services, Student Academic Affairs and the Student Activity Center invite you to:

If You Dream, It Will Happen: Pursuing Career and Personal Goals During Challenging Times

Date:                      Monday March 2, 2009
Time:                      Noon to 1pm
Location:                Parnassus Nursing Building Room 217 (map & directions), with simulcast to Rock Hall Auditorium at Mission Bay (map)

Cost: FREE!

What dreams do you have for your professional and personal development that you haven’t yet realized? What is holding you back? Emotional Intelligence is widely acknowledged as a critical component of interpersonal and professional effectiveness. This lively and engaging session will help you use emotional intelligence to develop an action plan that will help you get where you want to go. Find out more about Emotional Intelligence from the Emotional Intelligence Institute.

Jorge Cherbosque Ph.D. is Co-Director of the UCLA Staff and Faculty Counseling center.

“Jorge Cherbosque is dynamic and knowledgeable. His work on Emotional Intelligence is thoughtful and relevant to our campus’ efforts to recruit and retain a talented and diverse faculty and staff.”

**Joseph I. Castro, Ph.D.
Vice Provost – Student Academic Affairs

“I was thoroughly impressed with Jorge Cherbosque’s presentation at the UC Senior Leadership Institute and heartily recommend it for staff, students and faculty at UCSF.”

**Sally Marshall, Ph.D.
Vice Provost – Academic Affairs

Want to be more politically involved?

Appointments Training geared toward women

California Women Lead (formerly CEWAER), the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for Gender Equity, UCSF Community and Governmental Relations, and the California Commission on the Status of Women invite you to a workshop to learn how to apply for and get appointed to a board or commission.

DATE: Thursday, February 5, 2009

TIME: 5:30 to 7:30 pm

LOCATION: UCSF Health Sciences West 302 (Enter 513 Parnassus Avenue, go up staircase, exit via doors to courtyard, cross to Health Sciences West building, see map and additional directions)We hope you will attend and encourage your friends, staff, co-workers, and others to attend as well!

This FREE workshop will guide you through the appointments process by:

1. Making you aware of the board and commission openings in your area;
2. Helping you assess your strengths through a Personal Inventory worksheet;
3. Guiding you through the application process;
4. Helping you learn about the State appointments process.

SPEAKERS: Fiona Ma, Member of the California State Assembly, 12th District; John Cruz, Appointments Secretary, Office of the Governor; Sophie Maxwell, Supervisor, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 10; Rachel Michelin, Executive Director/CEO California Women Lead & Gubernatorial Appointee

Workshop made possible by the generosity of our sponsors: Kaiser Permanente, Eli Lilly, California Association of Health Underwriters and State Farm Insurance as well as our community partners: San Francisco Women’s Political Committee, EMERGE, National Women’s Political Caucus in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Department of the Status of Women.

California Women Lead is a statewide, nonpartisan, nonprofit association dedicated to leadership and campaign training, policy discussion and networking opportunities for women who hold – or are interested in holding – elected or appointed office. Our membership is open to anyone who is committed to encouraging women in public office. To find out more about a membership with California Women Lead and to learn more about our programs, please visit www.cawomenlead.org, call 916-551-1920 or email admin@cawomenlead.org.

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