As the Conference organizer, I’m a little biased, but I gotta say it anyhow: the Women, Action & the Media Conference kicks ass. And we’ve just (like, as in, five minutes ago) released our 2008 Call for Proposals, and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to share it with you.
I’ll quote myself:
At Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) 2008, we’ll share facts and ideas, develop skills, build collaborations, and create action plans to amplify progressive women’s public voices in society. We’re bringing together more than 400 participants to exchange observations, ideas, experiences, opinions, and tools for change—and plan together for action.
What questions, issues, and concerns do you want to hear debated? What thinking, strategizing, planning or skill-sharing work should happen at WAM! as a step forward in building the movement? What should we know, what should we be doing, and what should we be preparing for?
We invite you to submit a proposal for a workshop, panel, strategy meeting, digital multimedia presentation, or other conference session. We want to hear your ideas whether you’re a media producer or a PR strategist, a journalist, an activist, an academic, a community organizer, a funder or philanthropist, a “citizen” media watchdog, a media policy advocate, an alternative-network-builder, a blogger, writer, teacher, artist, technology trainer, cartoonist, deejay, (etc!) — we especially encourage proposals from women of color, women under 25 and over 65, low-income women, professionals/producers working in broadcast and online media, and students.
In other words: if you have something to say about women & media, and want to help us make change for the better (and, well, to get into the Conference for free), we need your proposal. Questions? Ask ’em in the comments or shoot me an email and I’ll be happy to answer ’em. The more excellent proposals we receive, the better the Conference can be.
Get creative and get proposing, kids!
UPDATE: We’re having some web troubles at the CNW site today. If you want to get your hands on the CFP as a pdf, just email me at jaclyn at centerfornewwords dot org, and I’ll send it on.