Anne Quintos (Global FWN100™ '16) On Owning Your Own Story As a Filipina Leader at the #FWNSummit2016
Global FWN100™ 2016 Emerging Leader Awardee Anne Quintos shares her 3 takeaways from the #FWNSummit2016 via Rappler: 1) Filipina Women - it's our time 2) FEMtoring is a really big thing 3) Lead like a girl and be proud. News story from The Rappler
#FWNSummit2016 Recap: FWN Scholar Leira Mae Digma on FEMtorship and Empowerment
#FWNSummit2016 scholar Leira Mae Digma shares her favorite memorable moments and highlights from the recent four-day long #FWNSummit2016 in Cebu. Leira Mae Digma is Chula Vista's Inaugural Youth Ambassador to Cebu, Philippines and a current student at University of California San Diego (UCSD) where she studies economics and management science.
V-Day FWN 2016: Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues Goes Out with a Bang!
On May 13th, V-Day FWN and the Women of Color United Against Violence cast stood up to raise awareness about violence against women at San Francisco's historical Herbst Theatre to an audience of over 500 people. The production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues raised funds for FWN's Anti-Violence Against Women Campaign and the Comfort Women Justice Coalition, a human rights organization building a Comfort Women Memorial in San Francisco as a place for healing and remembrance.
A special Comfort Women Extro was presented by Fiona Ma, Chairwoman of the California State Board of Equalization calling for Japan's full responsibility for the largest volume of sex trafficking in modern history.