April 22, 2008 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Saint Mary’s College

Schedule

1:00-1:10WELCOME Saint Mary’s CollegePresident Carol Ann Mooney

1:10-1:30KEYNOTE Melissa Martin, Chair, Indiana Commission for Women

1:30 to 1:45BREAK

1:45-3:15BREAKOUT SESSIONS (SEE BACK FOR DETAILS)

  1. Best Practices: How Businesses Can Help Women Bridge The Gap
  2. Women in Poverty: What Our Communities Must Do
  3. Opening the Doors: Education as a Pathway to Non-Traditional And Higher Paying Jobs
  4. Listening to Our Future: A Dialogue with Younger Women
  5. A Closer Look at Pay Inequity: Why Diversity Matters

3:15-3:30BREAK

3:30-4:45HOW WE BEGIN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

  • Hearing Backfrom Breakout Sessions:

Proposed Recommendations and Action Steps

  • Panel Discussionwith Policy and Decision Makers

Moderated by Dr. Virginia Calvin, Chancellor, Ivy Tech Community College

  • Patrick Bauer, Indiana State Representative and Speaker of the House
  • Phil Damico, Director, Business Growth St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce
  • Sue Errington, Indiana Senator D-Muncie
  • Jeff Gibney,Executive Director, South BendDepartment of Community & Economic Development

  • Questions & Answers

4:45 to 5CLOSING REMARKS Nancy Chen, Director Chicago Regional Office, Department of Labor Women’s Bureau

BREAKOUT SESSSIONS: PRESENTERS AND ROOM LOCATIONS

Breakout Session #1: STAY IN CARROLL AUDITORIUM

Best Practices: How Businesses Can Help Women Bridge The Gap

  • Judy Jankowski, AT&T Director of External Affairs
  • Ujvala Rajadhyaksha, Associate Professor, Business Administration and Economics Department, Saint Mary’s College
  • Michelle Merritt, National Director of Recruitment, AgentHR
  • Ann Jacoby, ICW Commissioner

Breakout Session #2: Room 348

Women in Poverty: What Our Communities Must Do

  • Maria Kaczmarek, Executive Director, Dismas House
  • Donna Laurence, St. Margaret’s House guest and single working mother
  • Bonnie Stryker, Executive Director, Youth Services Bureau
  • Jessie Whitaker, Director, South Bend Heritage Foundation’s LEND Homeownership Center

Breakout Session #3: Room 243

Opening the Doors:Education as a Pathway to Non-Traditional And Higher Paying Jobs

  • Nancy Guyott, Counsel, Indiana State AFLCIO, Former Commissioner of Labor for the State of Indiana
  • Marnia Kennon, Vice Provost Academic Affairs, Ivy Tech Community College
  • Charlotte D. Pfeifer, Director, Office of Campus Diversity and Judicial Affairs, Indiana University South Bend
  • Kathy Sokolowski, United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeships and Training

Breakout Session #4: Room 231 WEST

Listening to Our Future: A Dialogue with Younger Women

  • Christine Dits, Freshman Social Work Major, Saint Mary’s College
  • Adriana Lopez, Senior Social Work Major, Saint Mary’s College
  • Cindy Felston, ICW Commissioner
  • Sarita Fritzler, Senior Political Science Major, Saint Mary’s College (Moderator)
  • Angeline Johnson, Corporate Trainee, First Source Bank and Saint Mary’s College alumna ‘07

Breakout Session #5: Room 231 EAST

Closer Look at Pay Inequity: Why Diversity Matters

  • Kimberlie Warren, CWIL Research Consultant
  • Bettina Spencer, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Saint Mary’s College
  • Cathleen Cassady, Student Disabilities Services,Ivy Tech Community College
  • Carla D. Hartman, AARP Indiana’s Grassroots Director