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CPS Lecture #167: SHE-CAN — Supporting Her Education Changes A Nation with Annelise Bauer
Thursday, January 15 at 6:30 PM - Invite Coming Soon!
Haight Ashbury District, San Francisco
Our mission is in our name: SHE-CAN — Supporting Her Education Changes A Nation. We are a Bay Area–based global nonprofit focused on building a pipeline of powerful female leaders from post-conflict countries, including Liberia, Cambodia, and Guatemala. We do this by securing full U.S. college scholarships for high-potential, low-opportunity young women and pairing that with an intensive five-year mentorship and leadership development program. The results speak for themselves: SHE-CAN scholars have a 99% graduation rate! Our scholars leave college not only academically prepared, but also equipped to lead meaningful change in their home countries and beyond. We all benefit when more women have seats at the world’s decision-making tables!
To give you a sense of our overall approach (SHE-CAN Program Overview), one of the distinguishing features of SHE-CAN is our rigorous selection process. It’s a key reason we’ve been able to build a network of Coalition Colleges and other universities that to date have provided over $41 million in scholarships and room & board for our scholars. Out of all the talented young women who apply, only about 3% are selected as SHE-CAN scholars. Each finalist completes a Take the Lead project - a hands-on community initiative they design and implement in just 1–2 months to create real impact where they live. These projects have ranged from organizing a health-care workshop for 55 orphaned adolescent girls in Liberia, to launching a multi-faceted STEM and social-media campaign in Cambodia with more than 2 million views, to building a community garden within an indigenous neighborhood in Guatemala. These projects are incredible proof of the high potential of our scholars who are already changemakers before they ever set foot on a college campus.
CPS Lecture #168: maturity work & maturity at work: the double-edged nature of psychological maturity in organizations
Saturday, January 31 at 6:30 PM - Sign Up Here!
Haight Ashbury District, San Francisco
In today’s workplaces, employees and leaders are often praised for being “mature,” but what does that actually mean, and what happens when people feel pressure to appear mature at work?
In this CPS Lecture, Emily Ye will share her research on psychological maturity in organizations and introduce the concept of maturity work: the deliberate effort people make to appear more mature to others. Drawing on theory from management and social psychology research, she will discuss how maturity can signal both positive traits (such as competence, trustworthiness, and leadership potential), it can also signal negative ones as well (such as rigidity or overconformity) - sometimes simultaneously.
Moreover, her research demonstrates dual intrapersonal consequences of maturity work: on the one hand, trying to come off as more mature to others can increase self-confidence, but on the other hand, it can feel inauthentic.
She will discuss what drives maturity work (from being treated as “too young” or “not yet ready” to aspiring for leadership) and share insights for practical implications for how leaders and employees alike should think about the role of maturity in their workplaces.
Emily Ye is a Ph.D. Candidate in Organizational Behavior at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Her research interests broadly surround understanding how different social identities and stereotypes, particularly related to age and gender, influence attitudes and behavior toward individuals in organizations and the broader society. She has published work with her faculty collaborators, Professors Lisa Leslie and Michael North, in Current Opinion in Psychology and the third edition of the Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination.
Prior to graduate school, Emily graduated from Amherst College and worked as an Analyst for dQ&A, the diabetes market research company.
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CPS Lectures is a free discussion series that takes place every few months in San Francisco. It is a program of the nonprofit The diaTribe Foundation. The series honors the memory of Cyril Patrick Shaughnessy, Jr., Kelly's father, who died in late 2002 and loved discussions and learning.
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