Come join us at this year's New England Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (NE GWiSE) Retreat - a day of collaborating and connecting graduate women from different universities to make NE GWiSE an organization that can effectively address the issues we face and create change within our community.

The theme for this year's summer retreat is Navigating Power Dynamics and Building Confident Mentalities. Workshops will include:

• Navigating explicit and implicit biases
  
• Adopting strategies for conflict management
• Handling sensitive conversations
• Building productive mentor-mentee relationships
• Practicing professionalism and effective communication
• Positive mentalities

We are thrilled to announce our Keynote Speaker: Professor Sara Seager, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at MIT. Professor Seager's work is focused on finding another Earth and she was named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential in Space in 2012. For more on Professor Seager, visit her website: www.saraseager.com

Program Schedule:

• 8:30-9:30am Registration - Room 3-270

• 9:30-10:30am Welcome & Keynote

• 10:30-11:30am NE GWiSE & School Updates
  

• 11:30-12:15pm Workshop Session 1

• 12:15-1:30pm Networking Lunch

• 1:30-2:15pm Workshop Session 2
  

• 2:15-3pm Workshop Session 3

• 3-3:15pm Regroup

• 3:15-4:30pm Social - Trivia
  

• After party - Asgard (350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge)

For the program brochure, maps, speaker bios, and workshops, check out this google drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KqP7bdESSB9iEFjLEgN8tUU1wsQi7Lx4?usp=sharing

Notes:

Light breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided throughout the event. Also, please bring a reusable water bottle to reduce the amount of waste.

Empowerment is our goal; dress in what makes you feel confident.

**We encourage attendees to use public transport, walk, or bike to the location! Parking is only available on the street and as such, is very limited.

For more information about NE GWiSE, check out our website: negwise.wordpress.com