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Capitol Hill Chapter Presents: WHAT GIRLS NEED: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women By Marisa Porges, PhD.

March 1, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Known for her work on leadership, education, and national security, Porges combines lessons she learned throughout her career with the practices she is developing at The Baldwin School, to help today’s girls cultivate the skills they need to become tomorrow’s leading women. The ways we define leadership are changing, and the women now stepping into leadership roles are mapping new paths to inhabiting traits such as grit, resilience, audacity, and self-confidence. The lessons Porges shares in WHAT GIRLS NEED prepares the next generation to confidently hold their own later in life in whatever fields they enter and no matter what challenges they face. WHAT GIRLS NEED demonstrates how to celebrate and own the traits which might have been undervalued in the past but which are more critical than ever today and will make the biggest difference in decades to come – including empathy, collaboration, and adaptability. Given the added pressure now placed on children because of school closures and the unfolding public health crisis, there is no better time to ensure parents know the most effective strategies for nurturing their daughters’ courage and resilience.

As a former student at The Baldwin School outside Philadelphia, Porges was raised in a community designed to produce strong, independent women. After earning a BA in geophysics from Harvard, she fulfilled her childhood dream of flying jets off aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy before serving as a counterterrorism expert in Afghanistan, and as a senior advisor in the Obama White House. In 2016, in an unexpected move for someone whose ambitions had taken her so far from home, Porges returned to head The Baldwin School. In doing so, she began to see with great clarity how small moments in her early education gave her the tools she would eventually sharpen and deploy to excel in areas that were traditionally perceived as “a man’s world.”

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About the Presenters

Dr. Marisa Porges is known for her work on leadership, education, and national security. She is currently the eighth head of The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all-girls school outside of Philadelphia renowned for academic excellence and for preparing girls to be leaders and changemakers. Prior to joining Baldwin in 2016, Dr. Porges served in the Obama White House; was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and at the Council on Foreign Relations, where her research focused on worldwide counterterrorism efforts; and served in the U.S. Navy as one of eight female aviators in an air wing of about two hundred. She graduated from Harvard University, and earned her doctorate from King’s College London, and now lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her family.


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Date:
March 1, 2021
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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