Join us for Opening Night featuring Fran Hauser, Startup Investor & Bestselling Author of Myth of the Nice Girl and Embrace The Work, Love Your Career!

Join us for an enlightening fireside chat with Fran Hauser and view the inspired She Is Rising art exhibit! (+ don’t miss giveaways!) 

VIP tickets: $50 includes pre-meet & greet @ 6:30-7pm + VIP gift bag (incl. Embrace The Work book -$18 value- +raffle tickets and professional photograph with Fran)

Regular tickets: free with a suggested donation of $15

All funds raised will go toward our free-of-charge leadership development and mentoring programs, including summer camp scholarships.

About Fran Hauser:

Fran Hauser is an author, keynote speaker, and startup investor at the intersection of women’s empowerment, career fulfillment, and collective wellbeing. As a long-time media executive, Fran has always championed the power of content in shaping culture, educating the public, and driving awareness of important issues.

She is the best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate which has been translated into six languages and was named “Best Business Book of the Year, 2018” by Audible. Fran’s new book, Embrace the Work, Love Your Career, is quickly becoming the go-to for women seeking more joy and fulfillment in their career. Fran regularly speaks at conferences and organizations to help women build careers they love while staying true to themselves

Books will be available for sale (and signing) via Elm Street Books.

Learn more: https://www.franhauser.com

About She Is Rising Exhibit: 

Art Exhibit Dates: June 2-16

In our fifth annual arts celebration, this year’s curated exhibit, "She Is Rising", is a celebration of women of various ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities – some captured from life, and others imagined – who represent female power in a myriad of manifestations. 

All art will be for sale. 

We believe conversation is the catalyst for change.

The "Listen, Learn, Act” conversation series has been thoughtfully designed to engage youth and their parents in racial justice advocacy. In order to achieve racial justice, we must learn, unlearn and listen to, then amplify, the voices of color and experience.

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Be sure to RSVP for our other LLA conversations in this 3 pack series Wednesdays @ 7pm Via Zoom
April 14: Crown Act: Legislative Action
May 12: How Women & Girls of Color have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic (& how you can help)
June 9: Are you an inclusive Leader? Discuss BIPOC, LGBTQ and more

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Learn more and check out our previous LLA conversations HERE: https://golivegirl.org/lla

Join us for an evening of family fun, including live music by Melissa Wasserman, a taco truck (@_flacostacos), face painting and carnival games.

In a celebration of female power and the arts, the evening will feature activist artist, TL Duryea completing a live masterpiece and selling merchandise featuring her SHEROES collection. Plus, peruse the curated art exhibit collection, featuring a wide selection of female artists, including TL Duryea, contemporary artist Michele Utley Voigt and New Orleans pop art phenomenon, Ashley Longshore.

*All art for SALE*

Drop in and join us for sisterhood and art with featured exhibit artist, Michele Utley Voigt!

We’ll be making some confidence-boosting art projects and sparking conversation.. parents may peruse the art exhibit while girls participate! (Parents must stay on Waveny Park premises)

We’ll be making some confidence-boosting art projects and sparking conversation.. parents may peruse the art exhibit while girls participate! (Parents must stay on Waveny Park premises)

We believe conversation is the catalyst for change.

The "Listen, Learn, Act” conversation series has been thoughtfully designed to engage youth and their parents in racial justice advocacy. In order to achieve racial justice, we must learn, unlearn and listen to, then amplify, the voices of color and experience.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Alexia Jackson is a partner at the American Futures Institute (a student lead think-tank). In her role, she researches social policy and consults on state legislature. She is currently pursuing a degree in Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. During her most recent project, she researched the effects of Covid-19 on young girls of color.

Connecticut native, Serena R. Gatlin has more than 15 years of professional experience in sports media and television entertainment. Her advocacy for young adults and women of color stem from her early life experiences in the foster care system, becoming a teen mother and the overall challenges women face in the workforce. Serena's desire to help others overcome similar obstacles sparked the manifestation ofHER ZONE, INC., a nonprofit and grassroots initiative dedicated to empowering and improving the mental, physical and economic strength of young women of color, ages 13-24 in under-resourced communities, the judicial system, and transitioning from incarceration into society. In addition, Serena is involved in several local and national organizations that advocate for the youth, young women, and the disadvantaged.

Serena serves on the Executive Board of the Southern New England Association of Black Journalists (SNEABJ), the National Planning Committee of Women In Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN) and is a State of Connecticut Certified Sexual Assault Advocate and volunteer counselor with Sexual Assault Crisis Services (SACS) in partnership with the YWCA. As a mentor and Board member with GOODWorks, Serena is able to help the nonprofit organization in assisting and supporting women during and after their incarceration at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut.

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Be sure to RSVP for our last LLA conversation in this 3 pack series Wednesdays @ 7pm Via Zoom
June 9: Are you an inclusive Leader? Discuss BIPOC, LGBTQ and more

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Learn more and check out our previous LLA conversations HERE: https://golivegirl.org/lla

For high school & college-aged young women.

Join us to reignite a movement to embrace every body type! Featuring Author Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street.

About Yara

Yara Zgheib is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University and a PhD in International Affairs in Diplomacy from Centre D'études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques in Paris. She is fluent in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Yara is a writer for several US and European magazines, including The Huffington Post, The Four Seasons Magazine, A Woman’s Paris, The Idea List, and Holiday Magazine. She writes on culture, art, travel, and philosophy on her blog, "Aristotle at Afternoon Tea".