WHAT GIRLS NEED: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women
In her new book, WHAT GIRLS NEED: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women, Dr. Marisa Porges shares the leadership lessons she learned along her career path with the practices she and her colleagues are developing at The Baldwin School to help today’s girls cultivate the skills and traits they need to become tomorrow’s leading women.
Join us for an exploration of changing leadership and the women now stepping into leadership roles are mapping new paths to inhabiting traits such as grit, resilience, audacity, and self-confidence.
Event host: The Penn Club
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Dr. Marisa Porges
Dr. Marisa Porges is known for her work on leadership, education, and national security. She is currently the eighth head of The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all-girls school outside of Philadelphia renowned for academic excellence and for preparing girls to be leaders and changemakers. Prior to joining Baldwin in 2016, Dr. Porges served in the Obama White House; was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and at the Council on Foreign Relations, where her research focused on worldwide counterterrorism efforts; and served in the US Navy as one of eight female aviators in an air wing of about two hundred. She graduated from Harvard University in 2000 and earned her doctorate from King’s College London in 2014, and now lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her family.