BREAKING BARRIERS: PROMINENT WOMEN LEADERS FROM THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD AT BERKELEY COLLEGE DURING WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK
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Women leaders from the community share their stories during Day 1 of “Women in Leadership: Breaking Barriers,” an event hosted by Berkeley College at its campus in Midtown Manhattan, NY, on October 17, 2018, in honor of Women’s Entrepreneurship Week. Elizabeth de León Bhargava, Esq., Deputy Secretary, Labor and Workforce, State of New York (4th from left), delivered the keynote address. “Women in Leadership: Breaking Barriers” is part of a global initiative that focuses on strategies for empowering women economically and politically, incubating the future of women entrepreneurs, and other important issues.
More than 450 participants gathered or followed the live-stream broadcast at Berkeley College in New York City and Woodbridge, NJ, on October 17 and 18, 2018, to honor the voices of women during “Women in Leadership: Breaking Barriers.” This is the fourth consecutive year that Berkeley College has hosted this globally recognized celebration in recognition of Women’s Entrepreneurship Week.
“We must be sure to have a seat at the table,” said Elizabeth de León Bhargava, Esq., Deputy Secretary, Labor and Workforce, State of New York, keynote speaker at the event held in Midtown Manhattan. “But more important, it is what you do while sitting at the table … We must be equally sure to support each other. Coming together and supporting each other’s voices is the only way we will achieve the equality we deserve for women, the marginalized, for everyone.”
IWEC’s Nancy Ploeger participated on one of the panels.