Empowering Women to Succeed
THE UMBRELLA GROUP UMB Roundtable on Empowerment in Leadership and Leveraging Aspirations
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE CELEBRATES
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2019 UMBrella Symposium and Workshops: Be a Catalyst for Change in Your Life and Your Career WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 SMC Campus Center | 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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WELCOME
I’m thrilled to welcome you to the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s 2019 Women’s History Month celebration. UMB has long taken part in this annual celebration that commemorates the pioneering, courageous women of our past and honors the equally heroic women of today. But this year marks a special new chapter as we expand our typical 90-minute celebration to a daylong symposium, jam-packed with workshops designed to give women tools and strategies to be catalysts for change in their lives and careers. Do you need to enhance your negotiating or storytelling skills? Learn how to be more authentic? Recognize gender-based violence or implicit bias? We have a workshop for you, led by female experts in their fields. Two guest speakers, Mei Xu, MA, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Bay Candle, and Duilia de Mello, PhD, MS, vice provost at Catholic University of America, will expand your knowledge as well. And then, after the breakout sessions, the whole group of attendees will reunite for an experiential workshop to integrate what you have learned into simple mind-body practices. I am confident it will be a meaningful experience for all of you, as the women of today propel this University, our state, nation, and world toward true equality, inclusion, and opportunity. On behalf of The UMBrella Group, which was formed in 2015 to support the success of women at UMB and whose members organized today’s event, we thank you for your participation in this celebration and for the contributions you will make to society in the years ahead. Sincerely, Jennifer B. Litchman, MA Senior Vice President for External Relations Special Assistant to the President Founder & Chair, UMBrella University of Maryland, Baltimore
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8 A.M. REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST 8:30 A.M. A CONVERSATION WITH MEI XU HOSTED BY PRESIDENT PERMAN SMC Campus Center Elm Ballrooms
Mei Xu, MA, founder and CEO, Chesapeake Bay Candle, and Jay A. Perman, MD, UMB president
9:30 A.M.
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9:45 A.M.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
1. “How to Negotiate” SMC Campus Center, Room 349 Stacy Smith, JD, director, special projects, Center for Dispute Resolution at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
2. “How to be Authentic” School of Nursing, Room 140 F. Emelia Sam, DDS, associate professor, Howard University College of Dentistry
3. “How to Craft Your Narrative” SMC Campus Center, Room 351 Laura Wexler, co-founder, The Stoop Storytelling Series
4. “How to Recognize Implicit Bias” School of Nursing, Room 150 Kristin Reavis, MD ’09, MBS, assistant professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
5. “How to Recognize and Respond to Gender-Based Violence” SMC Campus Center, Room 203 Leigh Goodmark, JD, professor, Carey School of Law
10:55 A.M.
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1. “How to Negotiate” SMC Campus Center, Room 349 Stacy Smith, JD, director, special projects, Center for Dispute Resolution at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
2. “How to be Authentic” School of Nursing, Room 140 F. Emelia Sam, DDS, associate professor, Howard University College of Dentistry
3. “How to Craft Your Narrative” SMC Campus Center, Room 351 Laura Wexler, co-founder, The Stoop Storytelling Series
4. “How to Recognize Implicit Bias” School of Nursing, Room 150 Kristin Reavis, MD ’09, MBS, assistant professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
5. “How to Recognize and Respond to Gender-Based Violence” SMC Campus Center, Room 203 Leigh Goodmark, JD, professor, Carey School of La
12:15 P.M.
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12:30 P.M.
LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE
“Is the Sky the Limit?” SMC Campus Center Elm Ballrooms
Duilia de Mello, PhD, MS, vice provost, dean of assessment, and professor of physics, Catholic University of America; research associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1:30 P.M.
WORKSHOP
“Taking Care of YOU: Self-Care Strategies for Mind-Body & Heart” SMC Campus Center Elm Ballrooms Kathy Flaminio, LGSW, MSW, founder and president, 1000 Petals
3 P.M.
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MORNING SPEAKER MEI XU, MA Mei Xu is the founder and CEO of Pacific Trade International and its subsidiary, Chesapeake Bay Candle, a wellness-driven, multimillion-dollar home fragrance brand and home decor company, available through America’s biggest retailers. Born in Hangzhou, China, Xu was selected at age 12 to attend one of the first foreign language immersion schools to be trained as a future diplomat. After graduation, she attended Beijing Foreign Studies University, graduating in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies. After moving to the United States, she earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1994, Xu and thenhusband David Wang founded Chesapeake Bay Candle in the basement of their home in Annapolis, Md. The business continued to grow, and in 2015, Xu created a wellness lifestyle brand under the Chesapeake Bay Candle umbrella. The Chesapeake Bay Mind and Body collection was designed to help people achieve a more balanced lifestyle with home fragrances infused with all-natural essential oils. Chesapeake Bay Mind and Body was an overnight success that continues to grow in the United States and globally. In 2017, New Jersey company Newell Brands acquired Chesapeake Bay Candle for $75 million. As an active member of her community, Xu serves on the boards of many organizations and is a contributing affiliate of the Committee of 200, World Affairs Council, Aspen Institute, US China Business Council, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, and the Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. She also is a founding international ambassador of WEConnect International, a global network that connects womenowned businesses to qualified buyers.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER DUILIA DE MELLO, PHD, MS Duilia de Mello is an astronomer and the founder of Mulher das Estrelas (Women of the Stars), an association that works to popularize science and encourage young female students to follow careers in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. She is vice provost and dean of assessment at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she is a professor of physics and teaches a popular astronomy course. A native of Brazil, she came to the United States as a postdoctoral fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 1997. De Mello went to Sweden in a gender balance program to encourage students in engineering and science at Chalmers University of Technology. She returned to work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and was recruited by Catholic University’s Department of Physics. Her PhD is from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), her MS degrees are from the Brazilian Institute of Space Research and the University of Alabama, and her BS degree in astronomy is from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her first postdoctoral position was at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. De Mello’s area of research is extragalactic astrophysics. Among her discoveries are: (1) the supernova 1997D in a galaxy 58 million light years away, (2) stellar nurseries outside colliding galaxies, known as blue blobs, and (3) the largest spiral galaxy in the universe. She also was on the team that assembled the deepest ultraviolet image of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope. She has published more than 100 articles, has more than 10,000 citations, and has written two books to motivate students to study science, Living with the Stars and The Adventures of Pedro, A Space Rock. De Mello travels often as a keynote speaker and is a frequent guest on television and radio news. She gave a talk in Brazil recently that was attended by more than 6,000 high school students, and an astronomy club in the city of Campo Grande has named itself after her. WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2019
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS BREAKOUT SESSION 1 | “How to Negotiate” This interactive workshop will introduce key negotiation concepts applicable across various settings. The program will focus on obstacles often faced — or feared — by women and offer tips on bargaining with greater confidence.
Presenter
Stacy Smith, JD Stacy Smith is the director of special projects for the Center for Dispute Resolution (C-DRUM) at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and provides support to Carey Law’s Mediation Clinic. Smith regularly provides professional training on dispute resolution practices, strategic negotiation, and effective communication. She works in court, state agency, and education and community mediation settings, and she is licensed as a trainer for the International Institute of Restorative Practices in restorative practices and circle processes. Smith is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association and its Alternative Dispute Resolution Section as well as the Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence. Before joining C-DRUM in 2007, she practiced for several years in the areas of corporate, health care, and higher education law.
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BREAKOUT SESSION 2 | “How to be Authentic” In this session, participants will explore the meaning of authenticity and how it enhances their life experience. They will be introduced to a threepart approach on cultivating an authentic life through identity, vision, and purpose. By exploring these elements, participants will learn to engage their own power to fuel their personal and professional lives in new and dynamic ways.
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F. Emilia Sam, DDS F. Emelia Sam is an associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Howard University College of Dentistry in Washington, D.C. She also is a blogger and an author who has written several personal development articles for platforms including mindbodygreen.com and the Huffington Post. Combining her personal interests with her professional experience, she is forging a unique path by bringing more compassion to the realm of health care. She is deeply committed to encouraging others to recognize their own gifts and live fully authentic lives.
BREAKOUT SESSION 3 | “How to Craft Your Narrative” The motto of The Stoop Storytelling Series is “Everyone Has a Story.” This workshop is the practical embodiment of that motto. Participants will discover the evidence-based power of stories as a universal tool of communication, learn the fundamental principles of personal storytelling, and share stories. Come ready to step outside your comfort zone a little ... or a lot!
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Laura Wexler Laura Wexler is the co-founder and co-producer of The Stoop Storytelling Series, a popular cultural event and podcast in which “ordinary” people share extraordinary true tales about their lives. Since 2006, Wexler has presented workshops in true, personal storytelling for organizations, businesses, and individuals. Her
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storytelling curriculum is based on nearly two decades as a faculty member teaching memoir writing at the collegiate and graduate level, and her experience coaching nearly 2,000 people to tell the true, personal tales of their lives. In addition to her work with The Stoop, Wexler is the author of the 2003 narrative nonfiction book, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America, as well as nonfiction published in The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She has developed a TV pilot for Amazon Studios and written a virtual reality film that premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2018. Learn more at laurawexler.com and stoopstorytelling.com.
BREAKOUT SESSION 4 | “How to Recognize Implicit Bias” This workshop will help participants in all health care fields explore how their assumptions impact behavior and choices around communication, innovation, hiring, and organizational culture. Participants will obtain basic knowledge of unconscious bias as it relates to our individual and group identities, thinking styles, and leadership behaviors and will begin to understand how to mitigate the impacts of their biases.
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Kristin Reavis, MD ’09, MBS Kristin Reavis is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). She serves as the associate residency program director and the director of maternal-child health for the residency program. Reavis completed her undergraduate education at Morgan State University before earning her master’s in biological sciences at Drexel University. She earned her medical degree from UMSOM in 2009, then completed her residency and fellowship training in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. She joined the faculty at UMSOM in 2013 and practices the full scope of family medicine.
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BREAKOUT SESSION 5 | “How to Recognize and Respond to Gender-Based Violence”
This session will inform participants on how to identify various forms of gender-based violence. There will be a candid discussion on the legal and non-legal options available to victims of violence.
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Leigh Goodmark, JD Leigh Goodmark is a professor of law at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law. Goodmark teaches family law, gender and the law, and gender violence and the law, and directs the Gender Violence Clinic, which provides direct representation in matters involving intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, trafficking, and other cases involving gender violence. Goodmark’s scholarship focuses on intimate partner violence. She is the author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence (2018) and A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (2012), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title that year. She also was the co-editor of Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide (2015). Goodmark’s work on intimate partner violence also has appeared in numerous journals, law reviews, and publications. From 2003 to 2014, Goodmark was on the faculty at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she served as director of clinical education and co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism. From 2000 to 2003, she was the director of the Children and Domestic Violence Project at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. Before that, Goodmark represented battered women and children in Washington, D.C., in custody, visitation, child support, restraining order, and other civil matters. She is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.
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“Taking Care of YOU: Self-Care Strategies for Mind-Body & Heart” This is an experiential workshop in which participants will integrate being a “Catalyst for Change” into simple mind-body practices. This 90-minute session will enable participants to deepen their understanding of the impact of stress on their minds, bodies, and hearts, and allow them to experience the Five S’s of self-care. Through hands-on learning, reflection, and dialogue, participants will explore and experience breathing exercises, regulating movement and relaxation techniques for stress management to incorporate into their personal and professional lives.
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Kathy Flaminio, LGSW, MSW Kathy Flaminio is the founder of 1000 Petals LLC, a training and consulting company on the science and practice of mindfulness, movement, and social/emotional learning. She is the creator of Move Mindfully yoga-based sequencing for self-regulation, focus, and overall well-being. Flaminio holds a master’s degree in social work and is a registered yoga teacher with more than 30 years of experience in guiding people to higher levels of holistic health and wellness. She is committed to developing products and services that provide transformative experiences for adults and children. Flaminio offers graduate-level accredited courses, training more than 30,000 professionals to use mindfulness and movement tools in classrooms, hospitals, home care, detention centers, and therapeutic settings. Over the past eight years, Flaminio has partnered with the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital to provide trauma-responsive yoga for the child/adolescent mental health and dual-diagnosis units. She co-authored the Teen Resiliency Program with Henry Emmons, MD, as well as other physicians and psychologists. This program is an integrative, skill-based model used to support teens with anxiety, depression, and other stress-related conditions.
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SYMPOSIUM PLANNING COMMITTEE
Jennifer Litchman, MA Senior Vice President for External Relations and Special Assistant to the President
Isabel Rambob, DDS Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Dentistry
M.J. Tooey, MLS, AHIP, FMLA Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs, and Executive Director, Health Sciences and Human Services Library
Cherita Adams, MBA, MS Career Development Manager, Human Resources
Paulette Harris-Gross, MS Program Management Specialist, Office of the President
The UMBrella Group — UMB Roundtable on Empowerment in Leadership and Leveraging Aspirations — works to support the success of women at UMB, advancing them into leadership roles and championing women at all levels of the organization.
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