Cultivate the knowledge and skills that will allow you to be an expert in your field. This expertise can be one vital source of confidence. People trust you when you are competent and are more likely to continue seeking your expertise.
- Janet Mendoza Stickmon, Professor of Humanities at Napa Valley College, Global FWN100™ '13
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Take the time to reflect every day. It is important to ground ourselves in values and priorities that are aligned with our actions. We must also look at what we have done to make a difference in other people's lives.
- Julieta Gabiola, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Educator for CARE Faculty at Stanford
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Work for something bigger than yourself. We all believe in something. The hard part is standing up for those beliefs and working to create real change. True leadership calls for us to be fighters; to heal and to transform. Life events such as abuse, oppression, exploitation, and other injustices can put us down and make us submissive. And, while, it is important for us to heal ourselves and become stronger, it is not enough. One out of three women are abused during their lifetimes. Every 90 seconds a woman is sexually assaulted. It's not enough to survive, we have to change the world so that women and girls cease to be commodities and targets of violence. Put your own experiences within global contexts. Understand the root causes of what has been done to you. Then take this knowledge to work for change.
- Annalisa Vicente Enrile, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor, University of Southern California (USC), School of Social Work
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The Filipina Women’s Network (FWN), represented by Dolly Pangan-Specht (US FWN100™'09 ) and Maria Beebe (US FWN100™'11 and Global FWN100™ '13, board member, and book co-editor) organized a book reading in collaboration with Portland State University’s Office of Global Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Anthropology, and Center for Women and Leadership. The Asian Pacific American network of Oregon (APANO) and the Council of Filipino American Associations (CFAA) also participated. Global Networks, Janet Labar, and Cynthia Reidy donated books as gifts to the readers. Tambayan and Columbia Distributing provided food and drinks.
Marily Mondejar, FWN founder and CEO, joined the participants via video conferencing to share the three events that shaped the direction of the Filipina Women’s Network.
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Leadership is the ability to get results. Leaders emerge when people need other people to get results and leaders take action with no guarantee of success. Leaders can get off-track when they try to be everything to everyone. They should focus on their areas of strength and identify their weaknesses. They should bring people who will complement their strengths and fill in the gaps. The power of good leadership forms not only a well-rounded individual but an accomplished team. True leadership comes not from position but from participation and effectiveness.
-Mary Jane Alvero Al-Mahdi
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Calling Filipinas in the Pacific Northwest!
Oregon-based Global FWN100 and U.S. FWN100™ awardees Claire Oliveros (US FWN100™ '07), Dolly Pangan Sprecht (US FWN100™ '09) and Maria Africa Beebe (US FWN100™ '11, Global FWN100™ '13) will be doing a book reading of their chapters in Disrupt: Filipina Women: Proud. Loud. Leading Without a Doubt, FWN's first publication on Filipina leadership at Portland State University.
Join FWN members and FWN100™ awardees for a meet and greet, book signing and light refreshments at Portland State University Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238 at 6 pm on Monday, October 5th.
Be perceptive. Perceive and take advantage of opportunities to move forward, but also perceive impending problems so that they can be solved before they become gigantic.
- Delia B. Rodriguez-Amaya
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Delia B. Rodriguez-Amaya (Global FWN100™ '14) recently published her book Food Carotenoids: Chemistry, Biology and Technology which gathers all the important information about these major compounds that impact both food quality and human health. The book will serve as solid information for professionals in Food Science, Food Technology, Nutrition, Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry and Medical Sciences. Rodriguez-Amaya is the President of the International Academy of Food Science & Technology and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry from the University of California, Davis, USA and is the author of more than 240 scientific publications.
