Wednesday, July 29, from 10:30 am - 12 noon PST - conference call and webinar with some of the country’s leading experts on the economy, hosted by the Women's Foundation of California and the Global Fund for Women.

Women and girls make up the majority of the world's poor and are being disproportionately impacted by the current economic crisis. You will hear analysis and debate about how to inform policymaking to create lasting social change for women and girls, and be provided with a big-picture overview of the global economy and its impact on women from our panel of experts:

Yassine Fall is a Senior Economic Advisor to UNIFEM. Born in Senegal, she is an economist and a founding member and Special Advisor of the International Gender and Trade Network. She was instrumental in setting up gender and economic reforms in Africa. Ms. Fall also worked as UNIFEM Regional Programme Director for Francophone Africa and Lusophone West Africa. A French speaker, she is the author of several publications on gender, macroeconomics, poverty and globalization.

Caren Grown is Economist-In-Residence at American University, where she teaches in the fields of economic development and gender analysis in economics. Formerly, she was Senior Scholar and Co-Director of the Gender Equality and Economy Program at The Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, and Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance team at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Dr. Grown is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, a member of the External Gender Forum of the Asian Development Bank, and a founding member of the International Working Group on Gender and Macroeconomics (GEM-IWG).

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore is President and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a Washington, DC-based policy firm that works to create and advance social change strategies for the world. Working with non-profit organizations, governmental entities, and socially-responsible corporations, GPS manages programs and initiatives funded in excess of $13 million. Dr. Rockeymoore is also an Adjunct Professor in the Women in Politics Institute at American University.

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