Join us for a provocative and inspiring fireside chat with Tina Tchen, Chief of Staff to former First Lady Michelle Obama, on the power of women in politics and beyond. We'll discuss her unique experiences in the White House and hear her perspective on how women everywhere can impact their own spheres of influence, their workplaces, and the world.
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Following the fireside chat, all guests are welcome to remain for a cocktail reception for drinks and hors d'oeuvres, featuring demo tables from a number of women's advocacy groups.
Schedule
5:30pm: Doors Open
6:00pm: Welcoming Remarks
6:20pm: Fireside Chat with Tina Tchen
7:15pm: Q&A
7:30pm: Cocktail Reception
8:30pm: End
More About Tina
During her eight years at the White House, Tina also served as special assistant to President Barack Obama, and the executive director of the Council on Women and Girls, leading the first-ever White House Summit on Working Families and the first-ever United State of Women Summit.
A high-powered lawyer, Tina’s career accomplishments have established her as a powerful advocate for gender equality. Tina is actively involved with the Time's Up initiative, where 300 prominent women in the entertainment world have banded together to create a legal defense fund which aims to support women dealing with sexual harassment across all industries. Ms. Tchen is spearheading the $13.7 million (with a goal to raise $15 million) Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, which is administered by the National Women’s Law Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity, and will connect female victims of sexual harassment with lawyers.
A passionate champion for women’s and children’s issues, including women in positions of leadership, Tina shares her unique perspective and insights on workforce diversity and inclusion, breaking through male-dominated industries, and ending campus assault. Energetic, authentic and engaging on stage, she empowers the next generation to raise their voices and take action now to secure a better tomorrow for women and minorities across the country and world.
About Natalie Moore (moderator)
Natalie Moore is WBEZ's South Side Reporter where she covers segregation and inequality. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Natalie’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Natalie is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.
Thank you to our event sponsor Charles Schwab.
