Learn more about empowering girls through education and help build a school to provide education access for Kenyan girls.

February 27 | 5-6:30 p.m.

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions

Screening: Girl Rising

Panel Discussion

• Sandra Turner, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the Institute for Women and Girls
• Abigail Harris, Ph.D., associate professor of school psychology
• Reilly Corbett, development officer for Girl Rising

Screening: Every Girl is Important

Every Girl is Important is an initiative led by Diane Rodriguez, Ph.D., associate professor of Curriculum and Teaching. In response to worldwide inequality in education access for girls, she and her team created the project to build a boarding high school for girls in Western Kenya. This event will discuss that initiative as well as cover topics such as

• empowering girls through education,
• education as a way to break cycles of poverty, and
• the importance of educational equality for nation-building and economic development.

The event, hosted by Fordham GSE, will be accepting donations to support Every Girl is Important program development.