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May 2017 Newsletter
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We are very excited to partner with
Tirgan
to host
our very first International Women's Leadership Conference
in Toronto, Canada on July 29th!
Purchase your tickets here to secure your seat!
Stay tuned for more information!
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IAWF Connect Celebrates Mother's Day!
IAWF appreciates our members and friends who joined us on May 10th at Hotel Irvine. Our Nature & Nurture event, hosted by IAWF Connect, offered sincere appreciation to all the mothers in our community!
Special thanks to
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Iranian American Women Foundation hosted the 2nd Women's Leadership Conference in San Francisco, Bay Area, on Sunday, April 16, 2017. Hosted at the Westin SFO, over 400 men and women were in attendance to celebrate the diverse achievements of Iranian women in our community. Poignant panel sessions were hosted by thought leaders who discussed issues relevant in the diaspora community such as taboos, technology, family, career aspirations, legal counsel, and much more. Conference attendees were encouraged to reflect on the theme of the day, "It's Time" by gaining the confidence needed to embrace their Iranian American heritage, and continuing to inspire those around them. Due to a very positive turnout and the feedback received, we look forward to many more conferences and events in San Francisco, Bay Area!
We would like to thank our SF committee members for organizing and supporting yet another successful event. We would also like to give special thanks to Keely Badger
for her hard work and continuous support to IAWF and for publicizing our SF conference.
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Special thanks to Saba Vahdat for hosting a successful and outstanding fundraising event at her residence in New York!
The Women's Leadership Luncheon was hosted by Elham and Saba Vahdat at their residence in New York on May 1st 2017. The event featured special guests: Soheila Adelipour,
Parisa Khosravi
,
Behnaz Ghahramani
, Bahar Malekzadeh,
Mariam Khosravani
, and Noor Pahlavi!
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New York
Behnaz Ghahramani is the Director of Relational Marketing at Gucci America, where she oversees multi-channel marketing, customer insights, CRM, client development experiences and programs. Ms. Ghahramani is responsible for cultivating the relationships consumers have with the brand by leveraging Gucci's unique brand attributes to drive customer engagement. At Gucci, she has supported the launch of Chime for Change, a global campaign founded by Gucci to raise funds and awareness for girls' and women's empowerment. The program focuses on education, health and justice.
Read more about Behnaz Ghahramani here.
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Northern California
Banafsheh Behnam
has
been residing in Sacramento, California with her family since 1996. She has an MS degree in Water Resources Engineering and a BS degree in Irrigation and Drainage Engineering from University of Shiraz, Iran. She has more than twenty years of engineering experience in public and private sector on Water Resources, Dams and Canals, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, and Flood Control projects.
Banafsheh received her California Professional Engineering License in Civil Engineering in 2000. Banafsheh is a Supervising Engineer and works for the California Department of Water Resources in Sacramento.
Read more about Banafsheh Behnam
here.
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Dr. Niaz Kasravi is a national expert and advocate on criminal justice, social justice, and racial justice. She is Founder and Director of the Avalan Institute for Applied Research Solutions, a research, advocacy & training institute. She is the former Director of the Criminal Justice Program for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)- the nation's oldest civil rights organization. At the NAACP, Dr. Kasravi led several successful initiatives including campaigns to: abolish the death penalty in Maryland; enact stronger anti-racial profiling legislation in New York City; and free John McNeil who was wrongfully sentenced to life in Georgia.
Read more about Niaz Kasravi
here.
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Circle of 1,000 Featured Member:
PariSima Hassani
PariSima Hassani is the founder and CEO of Westgroup Designs, an award-winning Architecture, Planning and Interior Design firm headquartered in Irvine, California, with offices in Sacramento; Tianjin, China and Hong Kong and a Los Angeles office location opening soon. Her staff of expert design professionals service corporate, commercial, healthcare, education and civic clients across California, coast-to-coast and abroad. For more than three decades, PariSima's vision has been to enrich the lives of people through design, improving the way they live, learn, work, play and heal. Westgroup Designs has been recently recognized as part of OC's Top 30 Best Places to Work in the OCBJ, having designed a LEED Platinum multi-story Google headquarters in Orange County, and as OC Global Woman of the Year Award. PariSima holds a Certificate of Campus Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University and Bachelor of Art & Science from the University of Houston. Visit her IAWF profile here.
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