Women Inspiring Women NYC Conference Launches Today

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The WIE Symposium (Women: Inspiration & Enterprise) is a dynamic new annual conference for women hosted by the White Ribbon Alliance, and taking place today, Sept. 20, 2010, in New York City, timed to coincide with the Clinton Global Initiative and the UN General Assembly. 

Sarah Brown, Arianna Huffington and Donna Karan will host the first annual conference for New York’s most powerful women in politics, philanthropy, media, fashion and the arts, collaborating under the topical umbrella “Women Inspiring Women.”

Members of the White Ribbon Alliance will be issuing a general call to action on the subject of maternal global health, one of the eight UN Millenium goals for 2015 that may not be met.

WIE is focused on the next generation of young, global women leaders and has sponsored a competition supporting global maternal health with seven finalists: Hadhya Yahya Mohammed Al-Zawm (WRA Yemen), Gloria Iribagiza (WRA Rwanda), Deepa Jha (WRA India), Jayshree Satpute (WRA India), Alberta Steven (WRA Tanzania), Christine Tumuhairwe (WRA Uganda), and Tracy Walakria (WRA Uganda). Read their biographies. 

The list of Symposium speakers at WIE includes (see complete list, now including Melinda Gates):

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Christy Turlington | Smart Sensuality New Model Woman

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Christy TurlingtonStyle blog Fashionologie reports on the pervasive trend of Supermodels doing editorial gigs at top magazines. The group featured are all models from the Nineties: Christy Turlington at Marie Claire, Naomi Campbell at British GQ, Stephanie Seymour at Interview and Cindy Crawford at Vanity Fair.

In this latest announcement about Turlington, Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles says: “she believes readers will take to Ms. Turlington’s prose because she has lived a relatively regular life off the runway. Ms. Turlington, who is married to actor Ed Burns, is a mother of two young children who recently enrolled in a master’s course on public health at New York’s Columbia University. Ms. Turlington also is an ambassador for the humanitarian group CARE, which lobbies for legislation that would improve maternal health care for mothers across the globe.” (via WSJ)

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