Hathaway Brown is pleased to announce that our school will be part of a "town hall" live Skype conversation with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton at 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 17. HB is one of only four schools around the country to have been selected for this opportunity.
Taking place at the Lower Eastside Girls Club in New York City, the conversation will join girls from the Girls Club, the Girl Scouts of the USA, Girls Inc., Girl Up, the Young Women’s Leadership Network and four schools from across the country through Skype: The Seattle Girls School in Seattle, Washington; the Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio; The York County School District in York, Virginia; and the KIPP Delta High School in Helena, Arkansas.
The conversation, powered by Microsoft, will be broadcast around the world in real time by way of a live stream. All are invited to watch at www.clintonfoundation.org/conversation. The program also may be viewed at HB in The Ahuja Auditorium.
This special Skype conversation is an initiative of The Clinton Foundation's No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, which was launched to assess the progress that women and girls around the world have made in the last 20 years in the wake of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, at which Secretary Clinton notably remarked that women’s rights are human rights. The event, Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation, is the first in a series of No Ceilings Conversation events designed to provide a forum to hear from girls and women around the world. Moderated by actress and advocate America Ferrera, Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation will bring together girls to talk about their lives, experiences, and hopes for the future.
No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project is an initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation to help advance the full participation of women and girls around the world. Women’s and girls’ voices and stories are an essential part of understanding how far women and girls have come and what the most important challenges are moving forward. When we understand the gains and the gaps that have been made, we can all then work together to address them and help women and girls reach full participation in the future. More information about No Ceilings is available here.
At Hathaway Brown, the April 17 event will take place in the Worldwide Communications Center, and HB students will have a chance to ask questions and share stories on camera. Approximately 40 HB Upper School girls (grades 9-12) have been invited to take part in the Skype call, and others will be submitting questions online and through Twitter, using the hashtag #NoCeilings.
This first No Ceilings conversation will be focused on listening and learning. By hearing directly from women and girls around the world about the progress they are seeing in their own lives and also challenges and barriers they still face, The Clinton Foundation believes that we can best understand where we need to focus our efforts to truly make progress.
Special thanks to HB alumna Kate Klein '80, whose recommendation helped HB secure this opportunity.