Friday - July 2, 2010

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

NOW 101

7:30 AM-8:00 PM

Registration & Credentialing

8:30 AM-7:15 PM

Child Care

Pre-registration required

9:00 AM-7:00 PM

Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-9:30 AM

Plenary I
Welcome, Report from Registration/Credentials Committee, Adoption of Conference Rules

Ballroom

9:45 AM-11:00 AM

Breakout Session I
Workshops and Issue Hearings

11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch on your own

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Plenary II
"Leading the Way in Women's Health: Honoring Vision, Action and Education"
Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Governor
Loretta Ross, Woman of Vision Award, co-founder and the national coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Silvia Henriquez, Woman of Action Award, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Victoria J. Mastrobuono Women's Health Award, creators of Our Bodies, Ourselves

Ballroom

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Networking Break

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Plenary III
"State of the Women's Movement: Feminism Today and Tomorrow"
Kim Bottomly, president of Wellesley College
Susan Douglas, author of Enlightened Sexism and The Mommy Myth
Amy Goodman, journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy Now!
Carol Moseley Braun, former United States ambassador and senator

Ballroom

4:45 PM-6:00 PM

Breakout Session II
Workshops and Issue Hearings

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Regional Caucuses

Room Assignments

7:00 PM

Special Program: Wedding and Reception

Georgian

8:00 PM

Dinner on your own

Saturday - July 3, 2010

7:00 AM

Yoga with Grace Welch

7:30 AM-6:00 PM

NOW 101

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

Registration & Credentialing

8:30 AM-9:00 PM

Child Care

Pre-registration required

9:00 AM-7:00 PM

Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-10:15 AM

Breakout Session III
Workshops and Issue Hearings

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Plenary IV
"Lifting Every Voice: Women of Color and Empowerment"
Andrea Cabral, sheriff of Suffolk County, Mass., and the first Black American female sheriff in Massachusetts history
Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, the women's legal defense and education fund
Dr. Paula A. Johnson, executive director of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology and chief of the Division of Women's Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School
Kilolo Kijakazi, program officer in the Financial Assets Unit of the Economic Opportunity and Assets Program at The Ford Foundation
Opening music by Sandy Rapp

Ballroom

12:00 PM-1:45 PM

Lunch On Your Own

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

Political Roundtable
"Run, Vote, Win: Advancing Women's Rights through Electoral Politics" Adrienne Kimmell, moderator
Lois Herr, congressional candidate running against Rep. Joe Pitts (R) in PA-16
Priti Rao, executive director of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus (MWPC)
Sonia Chang-Díaz, first Latina woman elected to the Massachusetts State Senate
Judy Neufeld, executive director of Emerge Massachusetts

Ballroom

2:00 PM-3:15 PM

Breakout Session IV
Workshops and Issue Hearings

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Plenary V
"Expand Abortion Access: Envisioning Reproductive Justice for All"
Stephanie Poggi, executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds
Kierra Johnson, executive director of Choice USA
Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women
Opening music by Sandy Rapp

Ballroom

5:15 PM-6:30 PM

Breakout Session V
Workshops and Issue Hearings

7:30 PM-9:00 PM

Dinner on your own

9:00 PM- 12:00 AM

SONiA of Disappear Fear

Statler

Sunday - July 4, 2010

7:00 AM

Yoga with Grace Welch

8:30 AM-4:15 PM

Child Care

Pre-registration required

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Plenary VI
Proposed NOW Bylaws Amendments; Consideration of Resolutions

Ballroom

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Lunch On Your Own

1:30 PM-3:45 PM

Plenary VII
Consideration of Resolutions

Ballroom

3:45 PM-4:00 PM

Closing

Ballroom