The Drucker School Student Association Blog

At Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) 2009, we’ll gather together everyone who has a stake in achieving gender justice in media, in order to share facts and ideas, develop skills, build collaborations, bridge differences and create action plans. We’re bringing together more than 600 participants to exchange observations, ideas, experiences, opinions, and tools for change-and plan together for action. And we want you to submit a session proposal.

WAM! is one of those rare spaces where you are encouraged to bring your professional and activist selves together. Personally you will develop important relationships at WAM! and have opportunities to upgrade your technology, storytelling, business and/or organizing skills. You will also have time to reflect on the impact of our collective efforts as women in the media and discuss how we can continue making progress. As WAM! moves forward, our efforts to integrate media and movements will evolve alongside it.
-Irene Villasenor, American Documentary, Inc. | P.O.V.

What questions, issues, and concerns do you want to hear debated? What thinking, strategizing, planning or skill-sharing work should happen at WAM! as a step forward in building the movement? What should we know, what should we be doing, and what should we be preparing for?

WAM! has become for me an indispensable opportunity to meet talented writers and editors and trade strategies about how to challenge sexism in what remains a male-dominated field. Most importantly, because of WAM!’s frank feminist orientation and open commitment to advancing social justice, its panels and conversations provoke me to rethink the kinds of stories I assign.
-Esther Kaplan, Investigative Editor, The Nation Institute

We urge you to submit a proposal for a workshop, panel, strategy meeting, digital multimedia presentation, or other conference session. We want to hear your ideas whether you’re a media producer or a PR strategist, a journalist, an activist, an academic, a community organizer, a feminist, a funder or philanthropist, a “citizen” media watchdog, a media policy advocate, an alternative-network-builder, a blogger, writer, teacher, artist, technology trainer, cartoonist, deejay, or anything else!

I have gotten a great deal of contacts at WAM! for both professional and personal purposes. I’ve met wonderful women journalists that I wouldn’t normally have access to. CNW attracts women from all different backgrounds, no matter what race, color, sexual orientation, disability or class. It’s great to be around such terrific, smart women.
-Talia Whyte, freelance journalist

Please send us your session proposals by Friday, and spread the word to others who may be interested. We encourage you to be creative not only with your proposed topic and content, but in your means of presentation-we’re seeking interactive, provocative, dialogue-rich sessions that might as easily involve multimedia, collaborative projects, skills training or live performance as a panel or standard speaker.

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P.S. – Don’t miss the great changes in this year’s CFP, including a great Conference theme, session tracks, ways to propose performances, films, and day-long sessions, and more!