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Find your people and your flow in one of our four communities of practice: the Athena Fellows Program, Athena Entrepreneurs, the Athena Advocacy Institute, and the Williams Program for Women in Politics.
Want to know what collaborative changemaking looks like? For a decade+, we've worked to redress the gender imbalance in Hollywood in front of and behind the camera, with our fantastic partner, Women and Hollywood, through the Athena Film Festival.
Field Notes
Barnard is thrilled to partner with the Kode with Klossy team on a summer commuter program for high-school girls: Kode with Klossy Powered by Barnard will be offered from Sunday, July 18 to Friday, August 6, 2021. The three-week experience will teach web development and design, alongside a design-thinking approach, and students will walk away having collaborated on a final project that will demonstrate all they’ve learned. Applications are live, so apply in the link above today! The new deadline to apply is June 15.
It's the Athena Film Festival's favorite season - submission season! Do you have a short film, feature script, or TV pilot about amazing women leaders? Submissions are now open for the 2022 Athena Film Festival, the 2022 Athena List and the 2021 Athena Virtual Writer's Lab. Not sure which program is right for you? Click above for more information and to submit your work.
We're so excited for the Barnard Startup Summit this summer, taking place from June 17th to the 19th. Sponsored by the Athena Center and BEnet (Barnard Entrepreneurs network), the Barnard Startup Summit is a free virtual opportunity for students and recent alums to work with a successful group of Barnard alumnae entrepreneurs to develop their for-profit business ideas. From Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon, participants will learn the basics of business models, trademarking, investing, pitching, and more.
A big congrats to Eva for launching her book 'The Good Your Money Can Do: Becoming a Conscious Investor'! This book introduces her concept of impact investing and shares the story of her own mindset shift toward investing with awareness. Her book can be found here. Follow her Instagram @consciousinvestor for more investing insights.
"ThirdSpace@ gave me the opportunity to start doing work in the CS/STEM education space that I only could have dreamed of doing by my senior year. It has been a privilege to connect with peers, faculty, and the lovely Athena Center community to help construct a vision for the future of CS@Barnard. I'm excited to continue growing my project, Building Up Barnard CS (#BUBCS), throughout my time at Barnard and beyond." -- Izzy Lapidus '24, Computer Science
“I have developed numerous coding, communication, and organizational skills, and most importantly, grown my confidence in my abilities since joining ADDA. I believe possessing that confidence is imperative for women, especially women of color, to succeed in the workforce today.” -- Elise St Amant '23, Neuroscience and Behavior
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