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Women's Power Breakfast!
Breakfast Keynote Speaker: Sheryl WuDunn
"How Women Can Hold up Half the Sky"
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Drawing on her impressive reporting experience over several decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning Sheryl WuDunn will discuss the oppression faced by women around the world and efforts by a growing corps of social entrepreneurs whose work has helped transform societies. She will share highlights from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which was co-written by her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof.
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Date: Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Location: A.J. Maxwell's, 57 W. 48th Street (Between 5th/6th Avenues)
Time: 7:15-9:00 a.m.
Registration: 7:15-7:45am
Breakfast, Networking, and Keynote: 7:45-9:00am
Members: $45 (HBS Club of CT members get the same pricing as 85Broads members)
Guests and Non-Subscribers: $65
About Sheryl WuDunn
Sheryl WuDunn is co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a book about women in the developing world, published by Knopf in 2009. With her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, she has co- authored two best-selling books about Asia: Thunder from the East and China Wakes. Ms. WuDunn, the first Asian- American to win a Pulitzer Prize, has worked at The New York Times, Goldman Sachs and Bankers Trust. She recently has been leading a multi-media endeavor for Half the Sky, including a web-based game, a documentary series and a TV special. She will soon return to the world of investing and philanthropy.
The photo of Sheryl WuDunn that is included in this invite was taken by Michael Lionstar.
About 85 Broads (www.85broads.com)
85 Broads is an exclusive global women's network with members who live, work, and study in 82 countries around the world. The women in 85 Broads are business professionals, lawyers, educators, philanthropists, politicians, athletes, scientists, doctors, engineers, artists, and entrepreneurs. 85 Broads was originally founded in 1997 as a social network for women who worked for Goldman Sachs at 85 Broad Street, the investment bank's NYC headquarters. In 2000, the network was expanded to include a more diverse group of women from a variety of fields and backgrounds, including the non-profit sector. Today, over 20,000 women who are students and alumnae from the world's leading colleges, universities, graduate business schools, law schools, medical schools, and other graduate programs belong to 85 Broads. Learn more about our exclusive network or request an application for membership.
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