wib@l cURRENT eVENTS
APRIL: GIRLS RISING UP EVENT
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All are invited:
Come and hear from three students who are leading initiatives outside of Lawrenceville!!
Emmy Apfel ’22: Founder of Beyond the Book
https://www.beyond-thebook.com
Quincy Leung ’22: Founder of Lynker
Sofiyah Belovich ’22: Founder of Whizphys
You don’t want to miss this!!
Zoom link: https://lawrenceville-org.zoom.us/j/85758722586
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Article by Ms. Gillard on the event: https://www.lawrenceville.org/news-detail?pk=1173341&fromId=229325
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APRIL: 2021-2022 Lawrenceville Alumni-Student Mentorship Program are Open!
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Hi guys!
Per my Smeeting announcement, applications for the 2021-2022 Lawrenceville Student Alumni Program are open!
The Lawrenceville Student Alumni Program connects current students to experienced Lawrenceville alumni leaders. Via one-on-one coaching and experience sharing, mentors support their mentees’ personal and leadership development. Through this program, current students can benefit from mentorship from the real world, and alumni can give back in a meaningful way. The program matches interested students with mentors based on motivation and commitment, academic and career interests, and alumni resource availability.
Although facilitated by Women in Business @ Lawrenceville, this is an all-school offering and we encourage all interested students to apply. This program will be open to next year's sophomores, juniors, and seniors (in the 2021-22 school year).
Timeline
May 1 Application Deadline
May 1-7 Interviews
Mid-May Mentee Notification
The application is due on Saturday, May 1st, at 7PM EST.
If you have additional questions, feel free to email me directly
We look forward to reading your applications!
The Women in Business at Lawrenceville (WIB@L) Team
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*Here are some of our phenomenal mentors from last year's
program featured on our @lvillewib Instagram.*
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Article by Malin Phelan '23 on the program:
https://www.lawrenceville.org/news-detail?pk=1173170&fromId=209402
APRIL: WIB@L x Northwestern University Women in Business
Women in Business at Lawrenceville (WIB@L) is joining with the Women in Business at Northwestern University and is hosting a meeting with 7 guest speakers to talk about their time in their business-related fields. The meeting will be hosted on April 12, at 8:00 PM EST and everyone is invited (all genders and ages). This would be a great meeting to attend if you're interested in going into any of these fields!
Below is the list of all the speakers who are coming and their majors/interests in college:
Maya Shabtai (Finance/Banking)
Lex Verb (Entrepreneurship/Consulting)
Joanna Kim (Marketing)
Anastacia Chineme (Entrepreneurship/Marketing/Business law)
Lauren Risenhoover (Finance/Pre-Med)
Alexandra Gold (Tech/Coding)
Sammi Schnuer (Consulting - human capital)
During this meeting, we will be asking questions about their time at High School, their preparations for college, and how they got into her field of work (including benefits and negatives). Additionally, there will be an opportunity for a Q&A at the end.
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APRIL: WIB@L Alumni Guest Speaker - Annie Guo '15
Women in Business at Lawrenceville (WIB@L) is hosting a meeting with a Guest Speaker and Lawrenceville Alumni, Annie Guo '15 on Wednesday, April 7, at 8:00 PM EST and everyone is invited (all genders and ages).
During this meeting, we will be discussing Annie's transition from school at Lawrenceville to being an Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs. Annie as well went to the University of Chicago and when she was at Lawrenceville graduated Cum Laude in 2015.
We will be asking questions about her time at Lawrenceville, her preparations for college, and how she got into her field of work (including benefits and negatives). Additionally, there will be an opportunity for a Q&A at the end.
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MARCH: WIB@L Jeopardy
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Hi WIB@L,
Mercedes Zobel de Ayala '22 and I are hosting Jeopardy this Sunday (March 28th) from 3:30-4:00 pm ET!
For those of you who aren't sure about the rules of the game, here's the version we'll be playing: we'll have a board filled with questions of varying difficulties. The harder questions will be worth more "money," ranging from $100-$400. For every question you and your team answer correctly, your team will earn the corresponding amount of money. At the end of play, the team with the most money wins.
Our clues are related to Women in Science, Women in Sports, Women in Business, and Women in Art.
This is a fun activity while most of us are in quarantine, and a great way to get to know female accomplishments across many fields. We're excited to see you there.
Use this link to join!!
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Best,
Emmy and Mercedes
MARCH: Lawrenceville Women in Business Zoom Lecture with entrepreneur Nicole Staple '02
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The Women in Business at Lawrenceville (WIB@L) is hosting a meeting with a Guest Speaker and Lawrenceville Alumni, Nicole Staple '02 on Monday, March 15, at 8:00 PM EST and everyone is invited (all genders and ages).
Nicole Staple is an entrepreneur and consultant for consumer and social impact businesses. In 2012 she co-founded Brideside, a direct-to-consumer retailer in the bridal industry, leading the company as CEO and growing from concept to national e-commerce platform with six retail stores and 120 employees. During her tenure, Brideside became one of the largest women-owned venture businesses headquartered in Chicago, building a reputation for re-imagining digital retail and service in the wedding industry. Previously, Nicole held positions as a venture capital investor in Silicon Valley and investment banker. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for cancer support nonprofit, Gilda's Club NYC. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, where she is also a guest lecturer.
We will be asking questions about her time at Lawrenceville, her preparations for her entrepreneurship, and how she got into her field of work (including benefits and negatives). Additionally, there will be an opportunity for a Q&A at the end. If you would like to submit any questions please submit them here: Nicole Staple Questions
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FEBRUARY: Gamestop Discussion
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The Women in Business at Lawrenceville (WIB@L) is hosting a discussion room on Friday, February 19, at 12:45 PM EST and everyone is invited (all genders and ages).
During this discussion, we will be talking about the current events regarding the effect of Reddit on GameStop and the stock market app, Robinhood.
There is no need to have any background information as we will be describing the situation on a short slide presentation in the beginning of the session. However, if you would like to know more, please reference some of the links down below.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/podcasts/the-daily/gamestop-stock-robinhood-reddit.html
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Podcast by The New York Times that describes both the situation and some of its connotations (highly recommend!!); if you can’t access it through the New York Times website, you should be able to find it on anywhere else where you get your podcasts (Spotify, Apple, etc.)
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JANUARY: Update on the Mentorship Program
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With the approval of the Lawrenceville Alumni Office, the WIB@L Mentorship program will expand in the 2021-2022 school year as an all-school offering, open for all students, male and female. It will be renamed accordingly to include everyone, but it will still be affiliated with WIB@L since the WIB@L Leadership Team will be sending out and evaluating applications.
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The program will include 10 mentees, 5 males and 5 females, and 10 alumni mentors in applicable fields.
This program will be open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors (in the 2021-22 school year).
JANUARY: Virtual Screening of Dream, Girl
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Along with the Bunn Library, we will be hosting a virtual screening of Dream, Girl, this Monday, 1/25, at 7 PM EST.
Dream, Girl is a documentary that showcases the stories of inspiring and ambitious female entrepreneurs. It premiered in May 2016 at Obama's White House and was also produced by an all-female crew.
We don't have classes the next day, so this is a great way to relax while also getting a glimpse of the day to day life of motivating female entrepreneurs!
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The documentary is free on YouTube and linked to the flyer.
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You can learn more about the making of the film here: https://www.dreamgirlfilm.com/
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DECEMBER: Topic Discussion Meeting on Impostor Syndrome, Female Representation in Media and Entertainment, and Female Country Leaders and their Pandemic Response
We will have a discussion on three female leadership-related topics. Yee Xin Cher '22 and Malin Phelan '23, our communication directors, will be leading the discussions.
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We highly encouraged members to read the recommended readings so they came prepared to talk about these topics.
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1) Impostor Syndrome
2) Female Representation in Media and Entertainment
3) Female Country Leaders and their Pandemic Response
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Here is Yee Xin Cher's blog post, which was a recap of the discussion we had on Impostor Syndrome.
NOVEMBER: WIB@L Yearbook Picture
We're definitely all cheesin' under those masks :)
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NOVEMBER: First Meeting!
We will be having our first virtual meeting, where we will briefly introduce the leadership team as well as our plans as a club for this year. Here is the short presentation we made for it.
OCTOBER: WIB@L Leadership Mentoring Program Launched!
After six months of collaborative hard work with the Alumni Office, WIB@L successfully launched the 2020 edition of its mentorship program. Our executive-level alumni mentors are from the fields of finance, marketing, law, entrepreneurship, medical/healthcare, science, and information technology.
Here is the short presentation on mentee training prior to the program launch. Please stay tuned for an official coverage from the alumni office soon!
Book of the month
AUGUST: During this unprecedented time, leaders at all levels in all organizations, big and small, public and private, are being tested and show their true colors. Here I present to you, "Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders", a timely read featuring powerful stories and lessons from five great leaders in turbulent times, among them Abraham Lincoln and Rachel Carson.
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The author: "Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robinson chair of Business Administration. She has coached leaders from many organizations and speaks frequently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the World Business Forum. She spent ten years writing Forged in Crisis, her first book aimed at a popular audience. Her research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact."
JULY: In this autobiography, Sotomayor describes the story of her precarious childhood, her recognition of a need for self-dependency, and her journey to becoming the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
I've heard many great things about this one also, so I hope you join me in reading this amazing autobiography this month and continue to engage in important conversations on social and racial inequality.
JUNE: In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, it's extremely important for us to pursue a deeper understanding of the mass incarceration that is in our criminal justice system. This novel depicts a Harvard trained young lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative. The novel depicts one of his first cases, Walter McMillian, who was given a death sentence for a crime he did not commit. He is one of the thousands of cases that are unfairly incarcerated simply for the color of their skin.
I hope with this month's pick, we can be part of the conversation to demand equality and in the reform of our broken criminal justice system.
MAY: Hope you and your family are doing well and staying safe. I'm here to announce WIB@L's four-part Book of the Month series! For each month, starting from May till August, WIB@L will be announcing one book for the month to read so we as a club can read and discuss via Zoom. Hopefully, by the time we do go back to school, we would be finishing four great books on business, leadership, and general female empowerment! Reading is a great way to pass time, and learn something new in the process as well.
So without further ado, the book of the month for May is...
wib@l PAST eVENTS
2020 Women in business guest speech series
WIB@L hosted the first of its 2020 guest speech series on Jan. 8th. The speech's theme was "Networking, Mentorship and Personal Brand".
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Follow the link "Women in Business at Lawrenceville Welcome Kate Hammond P’23' for detailed coverage.
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