[GWAMIT] Announcements - Week 10/6/14

[GWAMIT]

Dear GW at MIT Members,

I hope that your week end went well! 

Two important events on GW at MIT calendar are approaching: the fall General Board Meeting on October 21st and the Fall Leadership conference on October 27-31. Both these events are open to all MIT community interested in getting more involved with us, so don't miss these opportunities! 

Find all the information about other upcoming events below!

If you have any events or announcements to share with the GW at MIT membership, please email us at gwamit-sec at mit.edu.

The GWAMIT Board

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GW at MIT:
1. GWAMIT Fall General Board Meeting (October 21st 2014 at 6PM)
2. GWAMIT Fall Leadership conference: save the date! (October 27-31)
3. Career Engineering 101 - How to find the career you really want... and have the guts to go get it! (October 16, 5:30PM)

MIT:
4. (N-BC-BC) Feminism: An Antiquated Ideology or a Crucial Framework? (October, 7th, 6pm)
5. Cleantech Entrepreneurs Panel  (Oct. 8, 7-8pm)
6. Reproductive Justice and the Abortion Wars - Lecture by Loretta Ross (October 8, 7 pm)

Outside MIT:
7. Boston Women in Public Finance: Careers Opportunities in Public Finance (October 7, 5:30-8pm)

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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. GWAMIT Fall General Board Meeting 

When: Tuesday, October 21st 2014 at 6PM
Where: 32-124 (first floor of Stata bldg.)
RSVP: RSVP


The GWAMIT Fall General Board Meeting will take place October 21st, 2014 in 32-124. This is a chance to connect with other GW at MIT members & leaders about upcoming opportunities and discuss the topics that are relevant to the graduate women community. 

Dinner will be served at 5:45pm. We hope to see you there!

2. GWAMIT Fall Leadership conference: save the date!
When: October 27-31

The GWAMIT Fall Leadership conference will take place October 27-31, 2014. We hope to see you there! If you are interested in helping to plan the conference, please contact Emily Mackevicius (elm at mit.edu) or Mallory Sheth (mmbounds at mit.edu). 

Thanks for checking in!

3. Career Engineering 101 - How to find the career you really want... and have the guts to go get it!
When: Thursday, October 16, 2014 | 5:30PM
Where: Venture Café, 5th floor, Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142

Register and Info: www.massawis.org/Oct2014event/CareerEngineering
- Do you wish you could find a career that you are truly passionate about? 
- Do you doubt you are "good enough" to make your dream career happen?
- Are you tired of the self-doubt, self-consciousness, anxiety, lack of confidence, and self-sabotage? 

This interactive seminar dares you to step outside of your current mindset to see yourself and your passions from a new and exciting perspective. You will learn the tools to cultivate a mindset that works for you, not against you. Using principles of neuroscience, positive psychology, and life coaching, this seminar challenges you to find a "you" that you can believe in whole-heartedly, and shows you how to confidently pursue the career that is right for you. 

Featured speaker

Dr. Samantha Sutton of Samantha Sutton Ph.D. Life Solutions is a life coach who holds a Ph.D. in science and engineering from MIT. With her unique combination of science and coaching, she has created a 'life engineering' methodology to teach you how to achieve a career you love, build great relationships, master your time, and overcome negative emotions like anxiety and anger that have you paralyzed. Samantha has coached thousands of individuals at top-tier academic institutions, and she has been featured on USA Today, the Huffington Post and many others. Please visit her website to learn more http://www.samanthasuttonphd.com/

To register and find more information visit: www.massawis.org/Oct2014event/CareerEngineering

Visitors must comply with Venture Cafe attendance policies (see http://bit.ly/vc-credo for more details.)

The event is free and open to all! 

Join AWIS to support our work!

The event is cosponsored by GW at MIT, GECD, Brain and Cognitive Science, the Venture Cafe.

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4. Second Meeting of the MIT Graduate Women's Non-Book Club Book Club (N-BC-BC)!
Feminism: An Antiquated Ideology or a Crucial Framework?
When: October, 7th, 6pm
Where: Cheney Room 
Link: here

Do you enjoy book clubs, but find that you are too busy to commit to reading a whole book every month? Interested in discussing and sharing experiences on a variety of issues in a comfortable environment limited to your fellow female graduate students? The MIT Graduate Community Fellows for Women's Programs are starting a brand new non-book club book club (N-BC-BC). Like a book club, N-BC-BCs will feature an evening of discussion, but instead of reading an entire book, our discussions will be motivated by two short articles posted the week before. Our second meeting will be 10/7 at 6 pm in the Cheney Room and will feature a discussion about ''Feminism: an antiquated ideology or crucial framework?", mediated by Kelley Adams from VPR. The events in our series are completely independent of one another, so don't feel like you've missed anything if you didn't attend the first one! Dinner will be provided! To RSVP and get a link to the articles: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1204rPLA4BNHSuyN_KiSS0NxLMMCuzRB3f4SB0v81iJg/viewform

5. Cleantech Entrepreneurs Panel
When: Wed, Oct. 8, 7-8pm
Where: MIT E40-160
RSVP: http://bit.ly/1lowAcH

Four entrepreneurs with varying backgrounds will discuss their paths to entrepreneurship, their experiences starting companies, and their advice for those thinking about pursuing entrepreneurship. Panelists include:
- Melinda Sims founded Loci Controls and has a PhD and SM from MIT in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Entrepreneurship.
- Sarah Haig founded Silverside Detectors and has an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Comparative Area Studies from Duke University.
- Eliza Becton founded Refresh Water and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
- Emily Reichert is the CEO of Greentown Labs and has a PhD in Physical Chemistry and an MBA from MIT.
Dinner will be served. RSVP at: http://bit.ly/1lowAcH

Best,

Alex
858-232-1302

6. Reproductive Justice and the Abortion Wars - Lecture by Loretta Ross
When: Wednesday, October 8, 7 pm
Where: MIT Campus, Building 6 Room 120
Info: lanacook at mit.edu

The Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies (GCWS) at MIT welcomes you to a public lecture by Loretta Ross hosted in conjunction with our Fall 2014 course Gender, Health, and Marginalization taught by the GCWS faculty team Norma Meras Swenson, Chris Bobel, and Silvia Domínguez. 

The event is free to the public.
 
About Loretta Ross

Loretta J. Ross was a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012, a network founded in 1997 of women of color and allied organizations that organize women of color in the reproductive justice movement. Ms. Ross is an expert on women’s issues, hate groups, racism and intolerance, human rights, and violence against women. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this affects social change and service delivery in all movements.  For more on Loretta Ross, visit www.LorettaRoss.com. 

Co-sponsored by Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, and the Boston Doula Project.

For more on the GCWS Gender, Health, and Marginalization series, visit our website.  Questions? Please contact lanacook at mit.edu.


**********Outside MIT**********

7. Boston Women in Public Finance: Careers Opportunities in Public Finance

When: Tuesday, October 7, 5:30-8pm

Where: Simmons School of Management, 300 The Fenway, Boston

RSVP: www.bostonwpf.com/calendar.html



This event is targeted towards graduate students, and will provide them with an opportunity to understand the various facets of the public finance sector and possible career opportunities.  The panel discussion will consist of a cross-section of female professionals working in this area who will speak out their career paths and their current positions, and the networking reception to follow will provide an opportunity to meet the rest of our membership.


Those interested in attending are asked to RSVP at our website at www.bostonwpf.com/calendar.html.  

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