The fourth annual Women’s Conference of Florida took place on November 1st, 2019 in Tampa. More than 1,300 attendees from across the state gathered to explore topics of interest to professional women.
UF attendees included Elana Pastore, a student completing her Masters in International Business in the Warrington College of Business, Chelsea Gifford, Masters in Women’s Studies student, Anna Kayer, Women’s Studies BA student, and Rachel Borman, finishing her Masters in Management in the Warrington College of Business.
The students, who heard from keynote speakers spanning a wide range of professional spectrums, were led by Women’s Studies Associate Professor Dr. Anita Ananatharam, who teaches the course Women, Leadership, and Diversity in a Global Environment in the Center.
The conference theme, Provoke. Promote. Progress., was geared toward inspiring attendees to work to create solutions to major issue impacting women, while celebrating past, current, and future accomplishments. Anna Kayser remarked, “The Women’s Conference was honestly one of the most impactful experiences that I have gone through. To be immersed in an environment that was full of women who are empowered, determined, and unapologetic in everything that they do was incredible. It left me feeling renewed in my goals, and extremely empowered.”