2024-2025 Events
Family Care Resources at Penn
Thursday, September 5 at 11am [virtual event]
Speakers: Karen Kille and Susan Sproat
Penn is committed to helping faculty and staff maintain a balance between work, personal goals, and family responsibilities. You can take advantage of a wealth of family-friendly programs to meet your everyday needs. This session will cover Penn’s family care resources and benefits that support caregivers from growing your family to caring for adults.
Reproductive Justice Beyond Abortion
Thursday, September 12 at 12pm [virtual event]
Cosponsored with FOCUS and OIDE
Speakers: Kimberly Mutcherson (Rutgers Law)
Kimberly Mutcherson, Professor of Law and past Co-Dean of Law at Rutgers Law, will use a framework of reproductive justice to discuss how abortion politics and policies impact the legal regulation of pregnancy and parenting in the US, especially in marginalized communities.
Elevating Reproductive Health Care & Justice at Penn: Clinical Care, Science, Advocacy, and Community Engagement
Monday, September 23 at 12pm [virtual event]
Cosponsored with FOCUS and OIDE
Speakers: Cori Schreiber, Emma Gilmore, Chioma Ndubisi, Andrea Roe, Sarita Sonalkar (PSOM)
A Remedy for the Electoral College: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Tuesday, October 22 at 12pm [virtual event]
Cosponsored with FOCUS and OIDE
Speaker: Jack Nagel, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Penn
Mentoring Mixer
Monday, November 18 from 12-1:30pm [in person event]
Location: Golkin Room, Houston Hall
Led by PFWFGE Chairs, Fusun Ozer (Dental), Jessa Lingel (Annenberg), Janine Remillard (GSE)
This IN-PERSON ONLY session will feature a combination of structured and open discussions in small groups on topics such as tenure, promotion, and career planning; work-life balance; taking on leadership roles; time management and delegating; and other topics you bring to the table! The session will last 1.5 hours and lunch will be included.
Spring 2025
Check back for confirmed dates soon.
Career Mapping Workshop (for non-health school faculty)
February TBD [virtual event]
Speaker: Katharine Stewart (NC State)
Architecting an Authentic Career—and Life (for health school faculty)
March TBD [in person event with networking reception]
Leading event: Cindy Morgan of PSOM
Updated Title IX Regulations
March TBD [in person event with networking reception]
Listen to Penn’s Title IX Officer and Associate Vice Provost for Equity, Michele Rovinsky-Mayer, present an overview of the work of Penn’s Title IX Office, the support and resources they provide, as well as explain the recently launched updates to Title IX.
Joint Phoebe Leboy Lecture and Klein Lecture (Department of Economics)
April TBD [in person event]
Speaker: Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)
2023 Nobel prize winner in Economics for advancing understanding of women’s labor market outcomes.
Spring Self-Care Soiree
May TBD [in person event]