Women's Equality Day 2024

Join us on Zoom for two viritual showcase events on Monday, August 26 in honor of Women’s Equality Day! Each session features its own presenters, moderated Q&A, and registration link, and registration is required to attend.

Morning Session

Presenters will showcase their projects based in Kenya focused on health and wellness and economic empowerment initiatives for girls and women.

• Tu’Washindi: A multilevel, youth-developed intervention to increase PrEP use and reduce intimate partner violence among adolescent girls and young women in western Kenya. Joyce Boke, BScN
• Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Sanitation: How USAID's WKSP is investing in women-led businesses to improve market-based sanitation and fecal sludge management services in western Kenya. Beatrice Tonui, MBA
• Kuniwezesha Nijiwezeshe [Empowering Me to Empower Myself]. Jackie Ndirangu, MSGH

Register for the morning session

Afternoon Session

Presenters will showcase their projects in South Africa and the USA focused on educating girls and women and ending gender-based violence. 

• Adolescent girls’ embodied experiences with an Empowerment-based Self-Defense intervention for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence prevention. Miriam Hartmann, MPH 
• Addressing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) through Training and Technical Assistance: RTI’s Response FGM/C in the United States. Hannah Feeney, PhD & Stephanie Halpin, MSc 
• Leveraging the Power of Partnerships to Empower Women in STEM. Rebecca Stanley, PhD & Jamie Vought, MSc

Register for the afternoon session