Women in Leadership

Women In Leadership, focuses on increasing the leadership capacity of women students and preparing them for success in the workplace. Presenters are alumnae, faculty, staff, and local businesswomen.

Theme: Permission to Pause

Permission to Pause recognizes the many reasons why women need to take a moment, step back, pause, and reflect. Embedded in this is the idea that women often need to give ourselves permission to be or do something. Sessions will empower women to find themselves, explore their ambitions, and set goals for success.   

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Agenda 

TIME EVENT
9:30 to 10 a.m. Interactive Networking 
10 to 10:45 a.m. Opening Session
11 to 11:45 a.m. Morning Breakout Sessions
12 to 1:15 p.m. Lunch and Featured Panel
1:30 to 2:15 p.m. Afternoon Breakout Sessions
2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Closing Session

Morning Sessions 

Session A: 11-11:45am

Finding Stillness within Running Water: Granting Ourselves Permission to Reflect and Challenge

Room: WVC 304

Presenters: Mollie Herman (she/her), Ph.D., Director, Counseling Center              

Description: The characteristics of patriarchal and white supremacist culture and the ways that they discourage women from taking a pause for self-reflection will be reviewed. Participants will discuss how oppressive cultural norms present barriers to their own self-reflection and why self-reflection is important in our personal and professional lives.

Session B: 11-11:45am

Pausa Poderosa: Celebrating Latina Leadership and Self-Permission        

Room: WVC 305

Presenter: Alejandra Balcázar, Coordinator of Latine/x & Undocumented Student Development   

Description: The cultural nuances and personal experiences that shape the Latina leadership journey will be explored.

Session C: 11-11:45am

Don't Try to be Superwoman: You Have the Right to Give Yourself Permission to Pause

Room: WVC 306

Presenters: Tanja Darden, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Management; Kanika Jackson, Lecturer, Communication Studies; Katherine Orlando, Ed.D., Graduate Program Director and Lecturer, Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development

Description: Student leaders will complete a self-inventory to better understand their relation to power dynamics, how to challenge the status quo, and where they need to pause.

Session D: 11-11:45am

Take a Pause: Challenging Imposter Syndrome and Creating Boundaries         

Room: WVC 307

Presenters: Charisse Carter, Licensed Social Worker and Residence Life Coordinator; Princess Lane, Residence Life Coordinator; De'Jah Herndon-Johnson, Residence Life Coordinator; Rebecca Kates, Residence Life Coordinator

Description: Presenters will discuss how women can confront imposter syndrome, set boundaries, and create space for themselves, and other women, to pause.

Featured Panel 

Room: WVC Ballrooms

Moderator: Christina Balanc, Graduate Assistance Center For Student Diversity

Panelists: Alejandra Balcázar, Coordinator for Latine/x and Undocumented Student Development, Towson University; Kara D. Beverly, President, Junior League of Baltimore; Sam McClure, Executive Director of The Center for LGBTQ Health Equity, Chase Brexton; Briana Synder, Chair, University System of Maryland Women's Forum.

Description: The interactive panel of women leaders from the public, private, and higher education sectors will discuss strategies of giving themselves permission to pause in life and work. 

Afternoon Sessions  

Session E: 1:30-2:15pm 

From People Pleasing to Power     

Room: WVC 304

Presenters: Shemiah Dickens, Coordinator of Student Leadership 

Description: Participants will explore the origins and influences of "people pleasing," as it is often a form of conditioning, and collaboratively strategize ways to remedy what it means to serve others from a place of serving yourself first.

Session f: 1:30-2:15pm 

Take Care Before You Don't Care: Strategies to Overcome Compassion Fatigue and Burnout

Room: WVC 305

Presenters: Rebecca Cossaboom, M.A., LGPC, Assistant Director of Military-Affiliated Supports & Services for the TU Military and Veterans Center; Dr. Chris Troung, PSyD, M.S., MHS, Coordinator of Neurodiversity-Affirming Services & Staff Psychologist for the TU Counseling Center

Description: This presentation engages attendees in a dynamic discussion about the negative impacts of compassion fatigue and burnout, while creating an affirming space to attune to ourselves, learn strategies to feel empowered in the ways that we choose to rest, and push against the societal narrative that pressures us to "do it all."

Session G: 1:30-2:15pm 

Permission to Heal

Room: WVC 306

Presenter: Kendra Randall Jolivet, Esq., Attorney and Adjunct Professor

Description: Author Kendra Randall Jolivet will take attendees on a journey to recognize how they may be compartmentalizing pain and how they can begin to heal and free themselves from the past.