The Women’s Symposium, a conference-style event on the STA campus, was held on March 7th. Various speakers presented on different topics, sharing their experiences and insights on that topic. This year’s symposium theme was “One World, Many Voices: Women Shaping a Global Future.”

Students got to choose between 29 panels to attend, ranging on topics from “Don’t Hack Your Neighbor – Women in Cybersecurity” to “Humanitarian Leadership in Action.”

The event featured more than 30 presenters, with nine of them being alumnae. The keynote speaker was Kim Warren, who, according to the St. Teresa’s Academy’s website, “graduated from St. Teresa’s Academy in 1990, and graduated from Yale University four years later. After some time in the Slovak Republic as an English teacher in the United States Peace Corps and as an AmeriCorps supervisor in the Greater Kansas City area, she pursued master’s and doctorate degrees in history from Stanford University.”

Warren is an author and editor of several books and articles, ranging on many different topics.

One panel all grades were required to attend was the Young Alumnae panel, where graduates from STA discussed their experience as working professionals. At the end of the day, students were asked to complete a form, reflecting on what they had learned from the sessions they attended.

The Women’s Symposium was coordinated by Kelly Finn, director of innovation and advanced interdisciplinary education; student representatives on this year’s committee included Piper Brandmeyer Gabriella Campbell, Carly Cooper, Myra Hicks and Claudia Wilson. Sophomores Hicks and Wilson had their own panel, which discussed the morality of Artificial Intelligence and if it should tell you right from wrong.