Free Film Screening of "The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extrordinary Things" at Stony Brook University Wang Center on Thursday, March 26, 2015 5:30 PM.

The Empowerment Project Film @ Stony Brook University

Thursday March 26, 2015

Wang Center Theater

5:30 PM -8:30 PM

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we will be featuring the documentary, “The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things,” followed by a panel discussion. We have gathered partners from the School of Medicine, Program in Public Health, Division of Undergraduate Education, American Medical Women’s Association, Women in Science and Engineering to help champion this project. After the film, there will be a panel discussion facilitated by Drs. Nancy Franklin and Anne Moyer from the Department of Psychology.

Panelists include:

• Dr. Allison McLarty, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Dr. Evonne Kaplan-Liss, Department of Pediatrics, Program in Public Health and School of Journalism
• Dr. Laurie Krug, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and recent Stony Brook Discovery Prize Fellow
• Anna Lubitz, Graduate student in the Program in Public Health, MBA program student and former Undergraduate Student Government President
• organ DiCarlo, Undergraduate civil engineering student and member of Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
• Dana Cook and Sarah Moshman, Emmy-award winning documentary filmmakers and producers
  

More on the film: “What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?” Emmy-award winning documentary filmmakers and producers, Dana Cook and her friend and business partner Sarah Moshman asked themselves that question in late 2012 and the answer was simple...to make a feature documentary about inspirational women all over the US made by an all-female film crew. Five female film makers journey across America to encourage, empower and inspire the next generation of strong women to go after their career ambitions. The film is not about encouraging girls to try to ‘have it all’ but to be leaders of their lives and go after their dreams without fear, and in a realistic way. It’s also a story of friendship and transformation, as they turned the cameras on themselves capturing the journey to re-define empowerment as they drove over 7,000 miles within one month from LA to NYC.

Here is a short video that shows the impact this film is having all over the US from the initial fall 2014 tour: http://youtu.be/GZTzvK_CDrA

Online registration is free but required for the event: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-empowerment-project-tickets-15699904838

More information here:

http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/happenings/facultystaff/what-would-you-do-if...