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This session will highlight the guiding principles behind supporting women's leadership in any field. Join Glenn to learn: * Essential principles that people and institutions should value and practice to affirm women leaders, particularly women of color * How we can create and implement policies that protect and promote women leaders * What is the "Woman Tax" and what men should do to check their bias and privilege * Tips and resources to share with colleagues of any gender.

Glenn Harris is the president of the new Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines. The new Race Forward is the union of two leading racial justice non-profit organizations: Race Forward and Center for Social Inclusion (CSI), where Glenn has served as president since 2014. The new Race Forward will build on the work of both organizations to advance racial justice. Glenn was previously the manager of the Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative, whose mission is to end institutionalized racism in city government and promote multiculturalism and full participation by all residents. Glenn has supported the start of similar initiatives in jurisdictions across the country and helped found the Government Alliance on Race and Equity. Glenn came to city government after serving five years as development director at Western States Center, an intermediary that provides technical assistance, training, research, and policy analysis in an eight-state region to grassroots organizations working to achieve social change. Glenn also served as the interim director at the MRG Foundation in Portland, Oregon. Glenn is currently a board member of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, the Willamette Valley Law Project, and the City Parks Alliance.

Although women are playing an increasingly important economic role in their families, communities and society and often carry the burden of economic and reproductive labor, they are less likely than men to take time off, and their health and well-being is suffering as a consequence. This workshop will provide: * Information regarding time off for the average woman worker in the United States * Recommended ways to maximize time off for self-care * Shared personal experience and learnings from my own process of taking a 3-month sabbatical

Jessica González-Rojas is the Executive Director at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH). She has been a leader in progressive movements for two decades, successfully forging connections between reproductive health, gender, immigration, LGBTQ liberation, labor, and Latino civil rights. She is a frequent contributor to El Diario/La Prensa, MSNBC, and HuffPost on pressing reproductive health issues in the Latina community, as well as a regular media voice in local and national outlets. Jessica sits on the board of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda and serves in an advisory role with the Anna Julia Cooper Center’s Intersectional Research Agenda, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and Emily’s List. She was also a member of the steering committee for the New York City Council’s Young Women’s Initiative. Jessica and NLIRH have been honored for their work by the National Women’s Law Center, Emily’s List, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Latina magazine, Cosmo for Latinas, the National Council of Jewish Women, Latism, and El Diario/La Prensa. Jessica is an adjunct professor of public service at the New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and of Latino and Latin American studies at the City University of New York. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a certificate from the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

A Q&A on gender equity with Emerald Publishing CEO Vicky Williams, led by Summit co-host and Vice President, International Sales & Business Development, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Johanna Vondeling.

Vicky Williams has over eighteen years’ experience in scholarly publishing, working across editorial, business development, product development, and marketing functions. Before taking over as CEO of Emerald Publishing, she was group director of People for the Emerald Group and CEO of Emerald’s creative agency business, Research Media. Vicky—a Cambridge graduate with a master’s in international business from Leeds Beckett in the UK—is also a keen advocate for gender diversity in academic publishing, launching Emerald’s workplace diversity program, Stride, and appearing as a panelist on the issue at international academic conferences and events.