Tuesday, February 7, 2012

SPEAKER LINE UP!

We are so excited to announce our speaker line-up for March 3! Get excited about these amazing, inspiring women!

Dr. Dianne Kraft: Discover...
Dianne Kraft is currently a diversity education and curriculum specialist with this department, and is very happy and proud to be back at Texas A&M.  She received her bachelor’s degree in history from the U. of Texas at Austin, but saw the error of her ways and received her Master’s degree in counseling psychology and her Ph.D. in adult education from Texas A&M.
For the previous five years she was teaching at the U. of Houston-Downtown, and before that she taught at Houston Community College, as well as the U. of Houston, with an emphasis in social psychology and human sexuality.  She has also taught at A&M in adult education and women’s studies. Dr. Kraft will be talking to us about self discovery and how to discover our strengths as leaders as well as our strengths as a woman.




Kirsten Dickerson: Create...
After a 15 year stint in California, Kirsten recently returned to her native state and planted roots in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two kids. Through her marriage to her best friend, filmmaker Brandon Dickerson, she developed a love for design creating the sets and wardrobe look for many of his projects. She and her family have traveled the world for film, humanitarian outreach, cross-cultural studies, and the adoption of their Chinese daughter. Motivated by a belief that each person is valuable and uniquely created, Kirsten is dedicated to empowering women to discover their full potential. The creative endeavors of Raven + Lily have given Kirsten a platform to connect her talented friends in the states with the amazing women she has met through her journeys around the world. This has become one of her greatest joys in life. Kirsten will be giving us her insight into her everyday life and how she helps women literally create themselves everyday.

Jacquie Hood Martin: Radiate...
Jacqiue Hood Martin is a full-time servant leader and a woman “with a yielded Spirit.” Hood Martin has been inspiring women and leadership executives across the world with her matter-of-fact teaching and leadership style for over twenty years. Whether abroad in Ghana, speaking, writing columns or in her books, Fulfilled! The Art and Joy of Balanced Living, or Wedded Bliss! A 52-week Devotional to Balanced Living, Hood Martin’s focus is to bring the best out of each and every person. Highly skilled and educated, she coaches women and men from all walks of life, collegiate to corporate, helping them to set their priorities and to make smart, sound decisions. She has served as an executive coach and trainer for a few of BE’s top 100 companies. She will be talking about radiating your leader within, empowering other women, and sharing her views on personal leadership and development.

This is an amazing opportunity to grow as a woman and a leader...what are you waiting for? REGISTER!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

RAVEN + LILY

Raven + Lily!

Hello Everybody! We are excited to present one of our keynotes...Raven + Lily!

Raven + Lily is a socially responsible brand dedicated to empowering women through design partnerships and sustainable economic opportunites. Founded by Kirsten Dickerson and Sophia Lin who share a close friendship and passion for fashion and ethical design, Raven + Lily was created as a platform to utilize those passions to alleviate poverty among women.In addition to creating sustainable economic opportunities for marginalized women, Raven + Lily is dedicated to returning proceeds to our partner communities to fund education, healthcare, and micro-loans. By purchasing R+L products, consumers are part of breaking the cycle of poverty and transforming the lives of women and families.

We are so excited to have them come to A&M and inspire the delegates at our conference! Keep checking back for more updates :)

Monday, November 28, 2011

Hurry Up March!

Howdy Everybody! My name is Laney and I am the Chair for MSC LEAF this year! I am SO excited for this years conference and cannot wait to meet all of you. If you are looking to develop yourself as a leader, create relationships with fellow Aggie women, and network with amazing women leaders, you have come to the right place! Our theme this year is focused on the cycle of personal development and how we are always discovering things about ourselves and creating ourselves into the women we want to become. The ultimate goal of this cycle is to radiate as a joyful woman who loves herself and is ready to take on the world and encourage others to do so as well. With the help of inspiring key note speakers, a panel full of rockstar women, and focus groups for further development we hope that you will leave our conference with a better understanding of yourself as a leader and as a woman.

Please contact me if you have any questions at all about MSC LEAF and our conference! I would be so excited to talk with you. You can reach me at laneyjune@tamu.edu. See you March 3rd!

Love, Laney