#FWNSummit 2018

Learning Journey #2: UK House of Lords Westminster Palace: "Voices of Filipina Women: RISING"

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF SCHEDULE:

6:30 am -
Meet at Hotel front entrance
Board Shuttle for UK Parliament.
Note that access to the the UK Parliament will go through airport-style security. Use the Black Rod's Garden Entrance. Wear your name badge. Bring photo ID and the invitation that you received from FWN.

7:15 am - Shuttle Bus will leave PROMPTLY.

8:00 am -
Airport security-type check-in (allow for 20 minutes), pick up pre-ordered books, Fellowship with VIP guests, Summit 2018 Steering Committee, FWN board members, select book authors and FWN100™ Awardees. Breakfast will be served.

8:30 am -
Welcome Remarks
Breakfast served

9:00 am -
Welcome Remarks: Susie Quesada, President, Filipina Women's Network
Acknowledgments of VIP Guests: Marily Mondejar, Founder and CEO, Filipina Women's Network
Introduce DISRUPT 3.0. Filipina Women: RISING: Maria Beebe, Editor and FWN Board Chair
Keynote: Georgitta Pimentel Puyat, Legacy Donor and Board Member, Filipina Women's Network

9:20 am -
Author Readings: Marily Mondejar, Founder and CEO, Filipina Women's Nework
Author Readings, Book Signing, Continue fellowship

9:50 am - Group Photo Opportunities

10:00 - END


Meet the Authors • Book Signing: DISRUPT 3.0. Filipina Women: RISING
Authors are Global FWN100™ awardees who contributed chapters about the following leadership themes:

• Building Leadership Legacy
• Developing Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Leading for Impact
• Being First and Foremost in their fields of expertise

A select group of authors from 8 countries will read excerpts from their chapters. Book signing will follow. Two (2) minutes each.

1. Ana Bel Mayo (Italy)
2. Annabelle Misa Hefti (Switzerland) 
3. Cynthia Barker (United Kingdom) 
4. Christine Amour-Levar (Singapore) 
5. Dina Dela Paz Stalder (Philippines) 
6. Editha Tijamo Winterhalter, Ed.D. (USA) 
7. Georgitta ‘Beng’ Pimentel Puyat (Philippines) 
8. Janette Nellie Go-Chiu (Philippines)
9. Joanne Michelle F. Ocampo (USA and Norway)
10. Joji Ilagan Bian (Philippines)
11. Juslyn C. Manalo (USA)
12. Leonor S. Vintervoll (Norway) 
13. Maria Africa Beebe, Ph.D. (USA)
14. Maria Rosa ‘Bing’ Nieva Carrion, Ph.D. (Philippines)
15. Hon. Marily Mondejar (USA)
16. Myrna P. Young, MSN, RN, CNOR (USA)
17. Rowena Romulo (United Kingdom)
18. Susie Quesada (USA)
19. Hon. Thelma Boac (USA)
    
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Dress Code: Business. Wear comfortable walking shoes.

• What to bring: Name badge, photo ID (any of the following: passport, State/country ID) and special invitation printed by the House of Lords and will be provided to you at Summit Registration together with your Summit Credentials.
• Bottled water or any liquids will NOT be allowed by security.
• Access to the the UK Parliament will go through airport-style security. Use the Black Rod's Garden Entrance

Why wear your All-Access Name Badge?  

1. Entry to board shuttle
2. Entry to off-site events and Learning Journey
3. Entry to summit educational sessions
4. The badge is your meal ticket except during the Gala. A separate meal ticket will be provided and collected by the waiter.

Contribution:  Included in All-Access Summit Pass registration

FWN's Photographer/Videographer Policy:
FWN will have an official photographer and videographer on-site at all summit events. You are NOT allowed to bring your own photographer/videographer (even as a guest) to any of the events without media credentialing approval from FWN.

FWN Shuttle 
Meet at the St. Pancras Renaissance hotel lobby.  Shuttle leaves hotel at 7:15 am promptly. 
Board shuttle where you were dropped off.

If you missed the shuttle, take Uber: download the app (before the summit) and apply this link to receive your first FREE ride - https://www.uber.com/invite/uberFWN

Access to the the UK Parliament will go through airport-style security. Use the Black Rod's Garden Entrance

**The Shuttle is exclusively for Full-Access Summit Pass Holders only.**

After the DISRUPT 3.0 Book Reveal and Reading, we will walk over to the Voice & Vote Exhibition.

• 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - 80 Tickets available to view the Voice and Vote Exhibition
• 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Suffragette Talks (you may leave the V&V exhibition to join the Talks and return to the V&V after)
• 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Lunch on your own. Try the Jubilee Cafe. Visit the Parliament Shop for souvenirs!

Suffragette Talks when Parliament is sitting During this talk our Visitor Assistants highlight the militant campaign conducted by members of  the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU - motto 'Deeds not words') and the Women's Freedom League (WFL), and how their actions impacted Parliament.

In 1908 the WSPU urged the public to join them in an attempted 'rush' on Parliament. About 60,000 people gathered but the police cordon held fast. In the same year, three WFL members unfurled a banner from the Ladies' Gallery into the Commons Chamber.  

Voice & Vote: Women's Place in Parliament exhibition - 80 tickets!
Westminster exhibition charts 100 years of women's suffrage. Curators spent four years collecting items to trace history of equality fight.

This exhibition is so fitting as FWN celebrates its 15th year of empowering Filipina women worldwide.

Maria Miller, the chair of the women and equalities committee, said: “This exhibition is not just about equality, and the anniversary of some women gaining the right to vote, it’s about women’s right to stand for election, to sit in the House of Lords … It’s about what still needs to be done.”

Fewer women have been elected to parliament than there are MPs in any one parliament (650). And in the thousand years of its history, there were always more male MPs in the House of Commons at any one time than the number of women MPs who had ever been elected, until Caroline Johnson won a by-election on 8 December 2016, 98 years after the first female MP.

At one end of the exhibition in Westminster Hall – one of the central points of the suffragettes’ campaign – are the doors where Alice Hawkins was arrested in 1909 for disorderly conduct and resisting the police. Her bail warrant is also on display.

What’s in the Voice & Vote exhibition?
Throughout the exhibition, rare and previously unseen historic objects, pictures and archives from the Parliamentary collections will be on show. Together with immersive and interactive technologies, the exhibition will tell the story of women in Parliament, the campaigning, the protests and the achievements. It will also examine where we are today and how you can make change happen. Featuring:
Immersive spaces
The Ventilator
The Cage
The Tomb

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Dress Code:
Business and business walking shoes

Why wear your All-Access Name Badge?  - All Access Name Badge has a different color

1. Entry to board shuttle
2. Entry to off-site events and Learning Journey
3. Entry to summit educational sessions

Contribution:  Included in All-Access Summit Pass registration

FWN's Photographer/Videographer Policy:
FWN will have an official photographer and videographer on-site at all summit events. You are NOT allowed to bring your own photographer/videographer (even as a gues) to any of the events without media credentialing approval from FWN.

FWN Members Meeting: Developing your Circle of Influence and MOU Signing with SunStar
Maximizing Your Investment in Attending the Filipina Summit

Summit Weavers: Susie Quesada, Maria Beebe, Marily Mondejar and all FWN Board Members to assist

Get a head start with developing your Circle of Influence and how to maximize your investment in your career portfolio.

Meet the FWN Board, Summit Steering Committee, Summit Staff and fellow Awardees.

1. Buddy up with a fellow a fellow awardee to deepen friendships.  
2. FWN Summit Schedule Updates, if any.
3. We will divide you into Action Teams for the Learning Journeys, Action Discussions and then Report Backs
4. We will review with you the Pinay Power 2020 Vision and start planning for our Pinay Power 2020 Reunion. We invite you to join this prestigious committe.

The Board, FWN Selection Committee and the FWN Summit Steering Committee have spent a lot of time in bringing together the women who create change and disrupt the status quo in communities and organizations all over the world.

At the summit, you will experience a change.  You will meet Filipina women colleagues from 12 countries.  You will be exposed to new information, new approaches to ideas, and to new friends.

Imagine how this will influence your business, your career, and your personal life.  

The summit is led by your peers: community leaders, industry experts, entrepreneurs and practitioners.  The sessions are designed to reflect on our heritage as women of color, improve career and business competencies and capacities for leadership effectiveness—thinking strategically, acting decisively, and influencing others.  We hope that the speakers will be able to help in your life and career journeys, restart your thought processes and expand thinking.  


The summit is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Filipina women leaders selected for the 2018 Global FWN100™ Awards to be together in one place. This configuration, this composition of personalities together in London, United Kingdom, and the places we'll be visiting, the events we'll be celebrating will never happen again.

We all know that networking is important and we invest in ourselves so we can meet those who can belong to our circle of influence. Travelling to London, England is about connecting with each other and supporting each other. To succeed in today's world, it’s not only about what you know, it’s who you know and how you have developed and nurtured relationships with. This is the secret of professional and business success.

By the time you leave the summit, you will be part of a powerful network of Filipina women who through FWN are helping each other succeed.   We hope that you maximize this opportunity to get to know each other.

FINALLY, we would like you to bring one item: An item, a symbol, a totem or any artifact that represents you as an individual, to be shared with others as we begin the summit on Friday morning, 14 September during the Developing Your Circle of Influence Plenary.

LASTLY -
Please Facebook, Instagram and Tweet that you are a Filipina Influential, attending the 15th Filipina Leadership Global Summit in London with fellow Filipina influentials from 12 countries! If you’re a speaker, indicate the session topic so your fellow delegates are aware of your involvement.

Tag FWN at Facebook.com/FilipinaWomensNetwork; on Twitter, hashtag #FWNSummit2018, FWN’s Twitter and Instagram handles: @filipinawomen

Lastly, let’s have fun!  Make this Filipina Summit a memorable experience in London!

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Dress Code: Business Casual

Why wear your All-Access Name Badge? 

1. Entry to board shuttle
2. Entry to off-site events and Learning Journey
3. Entry to summit educational sessions
4. The badge is your meal ticket except during the Gala. 

Contribution:  Included in All-Access Summit Pass registration

FWN's Photographer/Videographer Policy:
FWN will have an official photographer and videographer on-site at all summit events. You are NOT allowed to bring your own photographer/videographer (even as a guest) to any of the events without media credentialing approval from FWN.

Provocative Conversations: SUCCESS. SIGNIFICANCE. RELEVANCE. in Future Thinking. The urgency of using our success collectively for social, economic, and political change
The 2018 Filipina Summit theme speaks to the urgency of using collectively the success achieved by each awardee in their professional lives by collaborating with FWN in developing new paradigms for significant actions that are relevant to today’s society. These are the questions to ponder.

SUCCESS: your leadership story.

SIGNIFICANCE: amplifying your influence; publicly supporting or suggesting an idea, a development, or a way of doing something.

RELEVANCE: being connected; the degree to which something is related or useful to what is happening or being talked about or important to today's issues: the impression made by an idea, cultural movement, social group; meaning roughly 'relevance to social concerns', such as racial equality, gender equality, equal pay, poverty, social justice, world hunger, world economic development.

Fear and shame are barriers to success according to Dominique Moisi, author of The Geopolitics of Emotion - culture of fear
- culture of humiliation
- culture of hope
These cultures are reshaping the world. Power, Money and Culture

The gepolitics of diaspora: issues of diaspora and hybridity, both within geography and in cultural studies tend to celebrate the potential of the hybrid and diasporic to transcend essentialist notions of identity and subjectivity. Sean Carter argues that these approaches often fail to pay sufficient attention to two particular aspects of the diaspora experience: firstly, the geographical specificities of particular diasporas, and secondly, the ways in which essentialist modes of being are often reproduced within diasporic discourse.

How can FWN reposition its advocacy for social, economic and political change? How can FWN  Members maintain its relevance as the world is rapidly turning? How can FWN and its Members become major players in future thinking?


CO-MODERATORS:

Hon. Marily Mondejar, Founder & CEO, Filipina Women's Network, San Francisco, California; Chair and Commissioner, Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure, the Successor Agency of the San Francisco Redevelopment Commission, San Francisco, California UNITED STATES.

Hon. Susan Pineda Mercado MD, MPH, Special Envoy of the President for Global Health Initiatives, Republic of the Philippines; Nominee for WHO Regional Director of the Western Pacific, PHILIPPINES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Healthcare].

SPEAKER PANEL:

• Cristina Manahan Liamzon PhD, Coordinator, Ateneo Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program for Overseas Filipinos and their Families; Core Faculty, Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), PHILIPPINES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Education]

• Elena Francisco Samson, Maths and Science Teacher, Maths Coordinator for Whole School, Featherstone High School, UNITED KINGDOM  [Tertiary Economic Sector: Education]

• Joyce Rivera Javier, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, CA, UNITED STATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Healthcare]

• Mary Cheryl Bravo Gloner MPH, MBA, Executive Director, Project Safety Net UNITED STATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Non-profit/non-governmental]

• Michelle Dela Cruz Marquez, Procurement Associate, ExxonMobil, CZECH REPUBLIC [Secondary Economic Sector: Energy Utilities].

FORMAT:  Co-Moderators will ask each conversationalist to state her thoughts on the theme for 2 minutes.

DISCUSSION FORMAT:  Filipina Women's Network uses a fishbowl discussion format ala "The View" U.S. television program.  Instead of speaking directly to the audience, we encourage speakers to have a "conversation" among themselves with the audience "listening in".  A volunteer will collect audience questions on index cards and will hand these questions to the Moderator so they can be incorporated into the conversation.  We have found the fishbowl to be fun, engaging, and does not disrupt the conversation flow as well as being time efficient especially in managing duplicate questions.

Conversationalists are encouraged to look outside the traditional world of work and business and at the broader issues and external forces (STEEP: social, technological, economic, environmental, political) that influence the workplace and the Filipino worldwide community today and its impact in the next ten years. Looking to the future, outside-in thinking. The Moderator/s will reserve 10 minutes of the allotted time so attendees will be able to synthesize the issues and/or comments raised by the conversationalists and can have a discussion among themselves. We will then ask each group to voluntarily report back with a 1-2 minute Action Statement if there's time.

AUDIENCE ACTION: Group conversations on issues raised by the speakers. Strategies and actions? 2 minutes for each Group Report.

• What’s one key take-away? Why?

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Dress Code: Business Casual

Why wear your All-Access Name Badge?  - All Access Name Badge has a different color

1. Entry to board shuttle
2. Entry to off-site events and Learning Journey
3. Entry to summit educational sessions
4. The badge is your meal ticket except during the Gala. A separate meal ticket will be provided and collected by the waiter.

Contribution:  Included in All-Access Summit Pass registration

FWN's Photographer/Videographer Policy:
FWN will have an official photographer and videographer on-site at all summit events. You are NOT allowed to bring your own photographer/videographer (even as a guest) to any of the events without media credentialing approval from FWN.

Make Me A Filipina Millionaire: The Globalization and Politics of Entrepreneurship: Biggest Trends and Disruptions for Social Impact


MODERATOR:
Christine Amour-Levar 
Co-Founder, Women On A Mission, SINGAPORE [Tertiary Economic Sector: Nonprofit]

SPEAKER PANEL:

• Angela Katrina Adams, Founder, Designer, Question Everything, UNITED KINGDOM  [Secondary Economic Sector: Textiles]
• Emma Marcha Imperial, President and CEO, Imperial Homes Corporation PHILIPPINES [Secondary Economic Sector: Construction, Real Estate]
  
• Josephine Victoria Tanada Yam, JD, LLM, CEO & Co-Founder, B3 Canada, Building Breakthrough Boards (B3) Canada (b3canada.ca), Ontario, CANADA [Tertiary Economic Sector: Service Industry - recruiting talent]
• Joy  Murao, CEO, Practice Aligned Resources LLC, Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Legal]
• Rowena Romulo, Owner, Romulo Restaurant Group UK Limited, London UNITED KINGDOM [Tertiary Economic Sector: Service Industry - Restaurants]
• Sherill Ramos Quintana, Founding  President / Chief Executive Officer, Oryspa Inc., Laguna, PHILIPPINES [Secondary Economic Sector: Manufacturing]

The “Make Me a Filipina Millionaire” is a signature FWN women entrepreneurship thought leadership session focused on the business side of the quintessential Pinay. Filipina Millionaires who have shared their stories in previous sessions include Loida Nicolas Lewis, Angelica Berrie, Maria Banatao, Sherri Burke, Lita Abele, Nimfa Gamez, Cora Alisuag, Dr. Tess Mauricio, and others in finance, real estate, healthcare, personal services and manufacturing.

Are our Filipina women entrepreneurs business disrupters or sustainers? Our millionaires will engage in a bold conversation on becoming millionaires, how they did it, sustain it and own their success without the guilt yet sharing their prosperity with those who need it. Attendees will leave the session feeling proud of our Filipina sisters who took action on their ideas.

• A disruptive innovation helps create a new market and value network which eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology, product or service. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in a new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market. (E.g., the lower priced Ford Model T or the iPhone)

• In contrast, a sustaining innovation does not create new markets or value networks but rather only evolves existing ones with better value allowing firms within a market to compete against each other's sustaining improvements.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: The Conversation will begin with a moderator’s overview of what entrepreneurial legacy means, how Filipina women entrepreneurs create change through their businesses, the roles they play in the workplace, and how they have created a global imprint.

As Asian entrepreneurs extend their international reach, the next chapter is the rise of Asian women businesses and brands. As the benefits of branding grow ever-more clear,Asian companies are investing heavily in strengthening their brand equity. Brand development not only poses difficult challenges for Asian-owned firms, but has a potentially huge impact on consumer choice in the U.S. and worldwide. For many Asian companies looking to expand their reach, brand equity is the new must-have asset.

The selected speakers will provide their perspectives on ANY of the following suggested questions:

• How did you reach your first million (in your currency? How do you sustain it?
• What inspired you to start your business? What’s your business legacy? What’s your  market reach? 
• What’s your business brand? How do you strengthen your brand equity? What’s your global imprint?
• What’s one memorable challenge and how did you solve it?
• What’s one success you’re proud of and how did you make it happen?
• How would you differentiate your path to success from your fellow entrepreneurs?
• Do gender and cultural diversity play a role in your successes and pains? If so, how? If not, why not?
• Identify one most important resource or factor that gave you the most advantage or disadvantage in setting up and sustaining your business or practice.
• Did you have a femtor; a sponsor? What’s one memorable advice you received?
• How do you share your prosperity?
• How will you inspire new Filipina entrepreneurs today? 
• If you had to do it again, what would one thing you would do differently? What’s the future for you?
• How would you like FWN partner with you?

DISCUSSION FORMAT:  Filipina Women's Network uses a fishbowl discussion format ala "The View" U.S. television program.  Instead of speaking directly to the audience, we encourage speakers to have a "conversation" among themselves with the audience "listening in".  A volunteer will collect audience questions on index cards and will hand these questions to the Moderator so they can be incorporated into the conversation.  We have found the fishbowl to be fun, engaging, and does not disrupt the conversation flow as well as being time efficient especially in managing duplicate questions.
Conversationalists are encouraged to look outside the traditional world of work and business and at the broader issues and external forces (STEEP: social, technological, economic, environmental, political) that influence the workplace and the Filipino worldwide community today and its impact in the next ten years. Looking to the future, outside-in thinking. The Moderator/s will reserve 10 minutes of the allotted time so attendees will be able to synthesize the issues and/or comments raised by the conversationalists and can have a discussion among themselves. We will then ask each group to voluntarily report back with a 1-2 minute Action Statement if there's time.

AUDIENCE ACTION: Group conversations on issues raised by the speakers. Strategies and actions? 2 minutes for each Group Report.

• What’s one key take-away? Why?

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Dress Code: Business Casual.

Why wear your All-Access Name Badge?  - All Access Name Badge has a different color

1. Entry to board shuttle
2. Entry to off-site events and Learning Journey
3. Entry to summit educational sessions
4. The badge is your meal ticket except during the Gala. A separate meal ticket will be provided and collected by the waiter.

Contribution:  Included in All-Access Summit Pass registration

FWN's Photographer/Videographer Policy:
FWN will have an official photographer and videographer on-site at all summit events. You are NOT allowed to bring your own photographer/videographer (even as a guest) to any of the events without media credentialing approval from FWN.

Run Filipina Run: The Elusive Seat At The Table

Filipina women in public office is dismal. What can we do? How do we educate and encourage women to run for public office?  How do we build our talent pipeline? Can we make this a global campaign?

Meet the Filipina women who have run for office, as well as those who support or train women to run for office, and get all the information you need to decide whether you want to run.

MODERATOR:
Genevieve Jopanda, Chief of Staff, Office of Fiona Ma- Chair Emeritus- CA State Board of Equalization; State Chair- Filipino American Caucus of the California Democratic Party; Founding member and National Co Chair of KAYA (formerly known as Filipinos for Obama), California UNITED STATES

SPEAKERS:

• Hon. Cynthia Alcantara Barker, Town Councillor, Brookmeadow, Elstree & Borehamwood Town Council; Borough Councillor, Hertsmere Borough Council UNITED KINGDOM
• Hon. Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia, Deputy Speaker, 17th Congress of the Philippines, 17th Philippine Congress, Cebu, PHILIPPINES
• Hon. Juslyn Manalo, Mayor of Daly City, California USA
• Hon. Rachelle Sumagaysay Pastor Arizmendi, Former Mayor and City Council Member, City of Sierra Madre, California; Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment (PACE), Los Angeles, California UNITED STATES
• Hon. Thelma Boac, Trustee, Berryessa Union School, San Jose, California USA
• Hon. Wendy Lee Ho, Board Trustee, San Jose-Evergreen Community College District Board; Senior Policy Director, Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits, San Jose, California UNITED STATES

ACTION: Group conversations on issues raised by the speakers. Strategies and actions? 2 minutes for each Group Report.

• Who should I persuade to run for political office? How do I ask her?
• Should I run for office?
• If I do not wish to run for political office, how can I be civically engaged?

Attire:  Business Casual. Please wear your FWN name badge (at all times); required to board shuttle and entry to educational sessions and off-site special events.

Contribution:  Included in All-Access Summit Pass registration. 

Network with peers, new friends, old friends.
Fellowship Lunch: Please sit with fellow awardees in the Award Category of your CHOICE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: 
Marily Mondejar

DIRECTOR: 
Genevieve Jopanda, Chief of Staff, Office of Fiona Ma- Chair Emeritus, CA State Board of Equalization UNITED STATES

PRODUCTION MANAGER: 
Trish Marie Edar Marco, Marketing Coordinator Mark Thomas Walnut Creek, CA UNITED STATES [Quartenary Economic Sector: interior design, architecture, management].


CAST AND CREW:

Catherine Sy Luib, D.C., Owner/Physician, Luib Health Center, San Diego, California, UNITED STATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Healthcare]

Christen-Leonor Santos Montero, Chief Markeing Officer, Blue, UNITED STATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Technology]

Crystal Dias LLB, Partner, Dias Solicitors, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM  [Tertiary Economic Sector: Legal]

Danabelle Hazel Ramirez Gutierrez, Spoken Word Artist, Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Entertainment]

Editha Tijamo Winterhalter, Ed.D., California State University, Northridge, Associate Vice President for Strategic Business Operations  UNITED STATES

Elizabeth von Atzigen, Primary, Secondary Educator; Cambridge English Exams Prep Trainer, KiTs Bilingual Dayschool, Wil Switzerland, SWITZERLAND [Tertiary Economic Sector: Education]]

Evelyn Tang Uy, Managing Director, Isaias Uy & Sons Development Corporation, Zamboanga Del Norte, PHILIPPINES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Travel and Tourism]

Gizelle Covarrubias Robinson, Senior Managing Director - IT, Digital Accelerator Journey, Technical Owner, Digital Solutions UNITED STATES [Quaternary Economic Sector = knowledge-based and production of information: Media: journalism]

Leonor Vintervoll, Founder, Philippine Women's Organization (PWO) Resource Center. Board Director & Country Representative for Norway, European Network of Filipino Diaspora (ENFiD), Oslo, NORWAY(Global FWN100™ '15)

Maria Beebe, Ph.D., President, Global Networks, Hawaii, UNITED STATES(US FWN100 '11 and Global FWN100™ '13)

Maria Victoria M. Acosta, Senior Vice President – International Marketing, Megaworld Corporation, PHILIPPINES [Secondary Economic Sector: Construction, Real Estate]

Myrna Tang Yao PHILIPPINES, President and CEO, Richprime Global Inc. PHILIPPINES

Pamela Gotangco, Visual Artist, Motivational Speaker, Gotangco Art, Aargau, SWITZERLAND [Tertiary Economic Sector: Communication Services]

Rayla Melchor Santos, President and CEO, Proactive Resources, Inc., Metro Manila, PHILIPPINES[Tertiary Economic Sector: Non-profit/non-governmental]

Hon. Thelma Boac, Trustee, Berryessa Union School District, San Jose, California, UNITED STATES (US FWN100 '07, Global FWN100™ '13).


DESCRIPTION:
Since 2003, Filipina Women's Network has convened the production of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and help STOP violence against Filiina women and girls.

Violence against women takes shape in a multitude of forms including domestic violence, stalking, rape, sexual assault, the trafficking of women and children, date rape, verbal abuse, harassment and hate crimes.
 
Join the chorus of voices around the WORLD, as we say "NO" to violence against Women of Color.  Bring your grandmother, your mother, your wife, your aunt, your sister, your daughter, your niece, your friend.  Empower them.  Free them.  Bring the men in your lives, too.  Let us all help stop the madness.

The Filipina Women's Network advocates for an education campaign to raise awareness about the violence being perpetrated against Women. Consider the following statistics:

• 41 – 61% of Asian women report experiencing physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime. 
  
  Source: A. Raj and J. Silverman, Intimate partner violence against South-Asian women in Greater Boston Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association.
• 56% of Filipinas and 64% of Indian and Pakistani women had experienced sexual violence by an intimate in a study interviewing 143 women. 
  
  Source: Yoshihama M, Bybee D, Dabby C, Blazevski J. Lifecourse Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking among Filipino, Indian and Pakistani Women: Implications for Justice System Responses. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice; 2011.
• 5,200 – 7,800 Asians and Pacific Islanders comprise the largest group of people trafficked into the U.S., out of an estimated total of 14,500-17,500 individuals trafficked in 2004.
  
  Source: U.S. Department of Justice. Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons. 
• 68% of Filipinas and 50% of Indian and Pakistani women reported being stalked by an intimate partner.

Source: Yoshihama M, Bybee D, Dabby C, Blazevski J. Lifecourse Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking among Filipino, Indian and Pakistani Women: Implications for Justice System Responses. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice; 2011.

• Research shows that children who witness domestic violence show more anxiety, low self esteem, depression, anger and temperament problems than their peers. They are at greater risk for abuse and neglect as children and to become abusers themselves as adults. 
  
  Family Violence Prevention Fund. Fact Sheet: The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children. San Francisco, CA: Author; (n.d.).

Statistics from: Asian-Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence

https://filipinawomensnetwork.org/vday-fwn-against-violence/