Do Power Differently

03/25/2025 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM ET

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Admission

$35.00

Location

Boston, MA

Description

The Power of Women

Tuesday, March 25

EY | 200 Clarendon | Boston

5:30 pm Networking

6:30 pm Conversation and Q&A with the author

Registration will close at Noon on Friday, March 21

At the core of global challenges—poverty, war, migration, climate change, and insecurity—is a crisis of power. For the next generation of leaders who will shape public policy and work toward global sustainability, it is imperative to understand and do power differently. Join us for a "fireside chat" with author Jin In and her friend and TBC Member Bev Brown as Ms. In presents a new model of doing power differently.

Based on the inaugural Cambridge Element on Sustainability Girl Power: Sustainability, Empowerment, and Justice presents powerful data on gender and sustainability, shares inspiring stories of empowerment, and foremost, introduces a unique framework for ‘empowerment muscle’ training—for every one of us to build and practice. First, it awakens audience participants to staggering data on systemic gender disempowerment intersecting environmental degradation, violence, and exclusion, as well as the profound societal impact if girls and women were fully empowered. Second, from climate activist Greta Thunberg to Ukrainian NGO Girls, the all-girl Afghan robotics team emerged from villages ruled by the Taliban, the Chibok girls who were enslaved by terrorists inflaming #BringBackOurGirls, the #NeverAgain movement against gun violence in the United States, and the pro-democracy Hong Kong movement with adolescent girls at the frontline, today’s empowered girls are a transformative force for change leading national and global movements powered by technology. Lastly, they are case studies modeling a distinct skill—an empowerment muscle. Combined with pioneering data concretizing what empowerment is exactly, this lecture presents seven empowerment muscles for every current and future leader to build and strengthen—to do power differently. Jin will talk about the global data trends related to girls' empowerment and disempowerment, how girls and women are stepping up as forces for change on issues such as climate change, gun violence, and more, and the concrete steps we can take to empower ourselves and others.

The evening will include networking, conversation, and refreshments. We hope to see you there!

Featured Speaker & Author

Jin In

Jin In is the author of Girl Power: Sustainability, Empowerment, and Justice Cambridge’s inaugural element on Sustainability. It showcases pioneering data, including the first-ever global data concretizing what empowerment is exactly, and how each of us can build “empowerment muscles” to make the world better. With her unique expertise on Girl Power, Jin has been called to help tackle persistent global challenges like poverty, climate change, and insecurity. She has worked with both Democratic and Republican administrations, White House National Security Council, Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, UN Agencies, NATO, and grassroots organizations in 145 countries. It all began at a crisis moment—the 9/11 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Serving as the inaugural girls’ health fellow in the first federal office dedicated to gender equity and policy, the Office on Women’s Health, Office of the Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services, she created the first federal health program for young people, by young people, quadrupling congressional funding for girls and winning awards from the White House as well as the private sector. She also founded a nonprofit organization For Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL) and until recently, she was the inaugural Assistant Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, Boston University.

Eastern born, western bred, Ms. In’s commitment to empowerment and justice stems from her personal story. Born into one of the wealthiest families but in an underdeveloped country with no rights or protection for females, poverty became her new reality at seven months when her father died, unexpectedly. South Korea, then, entrenched in systemic and systematic inequity and discrimination against girls and women, her mother immigrated them to the United States. There, she met her childhood mentor who trained and taught her—through community service and social justice action—that an eight-year-old immigrant from a poor country, raised by a widow, can change the world. Her childhood training has become a life-long practice and commitment to service and justice.

With a Master’s in Public Health from the University of California Berkeley, Ms. In has also studied medicine, global affairs and theology. For her extraordinary service to communities around the world, she has received many awards from her alma maters. She enjoys baking, salsa dancing, and skydiving in her free time.