APRIL 09, 2019
5:30PM – 8:00PM
SF War Memorial | San Francisco, CA
Join Girls Leadership for our 10th Anniversary Celebration. Co-Founder & CEO Simone Marean will celebrate the impact of honorees Shanti Brien, Dr. Shakti Butler, Misha Olivas, and Peggy Orenstein. These honorees will thank the people who showed them how to step into their voice, and their power. Join us to raise a glass to power a generation.
Peggy Orenstein is the author, most recently, of Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life. Her other books include The New York Times best-sellers Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap.
A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Elle, Time, Mother Jones, Slate, O: The Oprah Magazine, New York and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered and the PBS News Hour. Her articles have been anthologized multiple times, including in The Best American Science Writing. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous colleges and conferences and has been featured on, among other programs, Nightline, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition. Her TED Talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure,” has been viewed over 2.8 million times.
The Columbia Journalism Review named Peggy one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years.” She has been recognized for her “Outstanding Coverage of Family Diversity,” by the Council on Contemporary Families and received Books For A Better Life Awards for both Girls & Sex and Waiting for Daisy. Her work has also been honored by the Commonwealth Club of California, the National Women’s Political Caucus of California and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Additionally, she has been awarded fellowships from the United States-Japan Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council and been a grateful resident at Mesa Refuge and the UCross Foundation.
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