Your Story Matters!
Share your story at the 3rd Global Conference on Women’s Studies
Give hope, Empower Women & Change lives
Everyone has an inspiring story to share. What’s Your Story? WOMENSCONF 2022 wants to provide you with a unique opportunity to share your story and your wonderful life journey in your own words with a global audience of women, girls, academia, activists, scholars and journalists. We invite you to submit your powerful original story and leave your impact by connecting with people and sharing stories of your life experiences.
The themes of stories may include but are not limited to:
- Breakthroughs and successes in your life
- Gender Discrimination
- Challenging Male Dominance
- Consciousness-raising on women’s issues
- Gender and communication
- Gender and Sexual Diversity
- Childhood, youth and Adolescence Challenges
- Adventures of your Life
- Gender Equality and Educational Systems
- Career, Employment and work-life balance
- Violence, Bullying, Gender Violence
- Women Empowerment and Social Change
- Family, Childbirth, Motherhood stories
- Hope, Anxiety, trauma, Confidence, psychological tensions
- Social justice
- Women’s vulnerabilities
Which genres are accepted?
- Short Story
- Narration
- Short Video files/ clips
- Music, Poetry, Short Drama
Ms. Lisa Molomot
Documentary Filmmaker and Educator, USA
Lisa Molomot has produced and directed documentaries about the American Southwest in recent years including The Cleaners, Missing in Brooks County and Soledad. She has also focused on stories about education. Her hugely popular film School’s Out has been an integral part of the movement for providing outdoor education for young children, and her recent short film Teaching in Arizona is an inside look at the teaching crisis in that state. Lisa teaches documentary filmmaking in the Human Rights Practice Program and the Undergraduate Law Major at the University of Arizona.
SOLEDAD Documentary Screening
Followed by a Q&A with Director, Lisa Molomot
SOLEDAD tells the story of a woman from Central America who fled gang violence and torture to seek asylum in the U.S., only to find herself imprisoned at the Eloy Detention Center. Soledad and a team of women join forces to win her asylum case.
Dr. Michelle Kuei
Founder, Elevate LifeCoaching, United States
Michelle Kuei is a motivational speaker, certified visibility confidence coach and author who empowers women in building the skill-sets of resiliency to overcome tragedy, bounce back, and find purpose in every challenge. Michelle is the former secretary of the United Nations Association of the USA at the Pasadena Chapter, Clinical Pharmacist at Keck Medical Center at University of Southern California, and Former Associate at the Associated Patient Advocates. She is also the founder of Elevate LifeCoaching, the author of the memoir “Perfectly Normal-an immigrant’s story of making it in America”; an inspirational journey of overcoming adversity after an automobile accident that changed her life trajectory. Michelle was born in Taiwan and grew up in New York, but today she lives in Los Angeles with her short-hair orange tabby cat named ‘Toby’ who is working his way to take over the social media publicity.
Speech Title: “Build It or Lose it” Cultivating Courage as Your Everyday Habit.
Ms. Grace Chenxin Liu
Award-winning writer, speaker, researcher, Founder of Sharing to Empower and Co-founder of ABC Media, USA
Grace Chenxin Liu is an American national award-winning junior journalist, multiple-time winner of the International Chinese Essay Contest for Youth, the 1st place winner of the American National Chinese Speech and Writing Contest, Long Island Young Scholar for Mathematics, Founder of Sharing to Empower, and Co-founder of ABC Media. Being a Davidson Young Scholar, she has also been selected as one of the youngest to join 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures and The Junior Academy, two very prestigious and competitive global programs offered by the New York Academy of Sciences.
She has 21 articles in English and Chinese published. She has presented her research papers at multiple international and national conferences. Her work has been profiled and quoted in Newsday, Newsbreak, World Journal, China Press, Global Chinese Media, Washington Chinese Daily, Sina.Com, Patch, Syosset Advance, Syosset Jericho News Journal, GNS News, DWNews, and more. Her current research interests include gender, history, artificial intelligence, and sustainability issues. Currently, she is a middle-school student in the USA.
Speech Title: “Believing in Myself; Breakthroughs and Successes in Your Life”
Her first fencing tournament
Photographer Ying Qiu
Have a story to share from your life experience? We invite you to join us to share and discuss at GCWS 2022.
Ways to submit your Story:
- Online Submission form (MS Word, PDF files)
- Email your story or video to info[at]womensconf.org
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Fill out the below form and upload your file (Video/Media)