INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2009

When:

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Where:

Dag Hammarskjold Building

240 East 47^th Street

43^rd Floor

Manhattan

Time:

2-5 PM

Speakers:

Ozden Toker Inonu: President of Inonu Foundation and The daughter of the late Ismet Inonu, the first Prime Minister and second President of Turkey.

Dr. Linda Stillman : is the creator of special world conference Sophia 2010 Women and Wisdom, Sofia Bulgaria May 25-29, 2010. She serves as Chair of the Sophia 2010 International Executive Board, and Chair of the International Headquarters Council in New York City.

Dr. Sema Gurun: Sema Gurun has been practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for twenty years in New York and the international community within it. Until 2008 she served as a staff member in the United Nations Department for Political Affairs in the area of conflict resolution and peace building, while also serving as an ad hoc mental health advisor to UN staff. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan.

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2009

SPEAKERS

MS. OZDEN TOKER INONU
Born in 1930 in Ankara, she is the daughter of the second President of the Turkish Republic. After finishing her primary and secondary education in Ankara, she attended Edinburgh University to study English literature. In 1955 she married journalist and Senator Metin Toker. Together they raised three children and now have seven grandchildren.

In 1983, in order to maintain and develop the ideals established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and her father, Ismet Inonu, she began to serve as the vice president of the Ismet Inonu Foundation. In 1992 she assumed the presidency of the Inonu Foundation and continues to research and lecture about the formation of the Turkish republic.

DR. LINDA STILLMAN
Dr. Linda Stillman is the creator of the special world conference Sophia 2010 Women and Wisdom, Sofia, Bulgaria May 25-29, 2010. She serves as Chair of the Sophia 2010 International Executive Board and Chair of the International Headquarters Council in New York City. She first fell in love with the Bulgarian people, with their intellectual and passionate personalities, and their precious culture, 25 years ago and knew she would return one day to a free and flourishing country. In 2008, her world vision to create and motivate positive directions for global social development has become a powerful reality. Today, the thousands are becoming millions of women, men and young people from all continents, culture, and sectors of society, who embrace her collaborative and egalitarian social development approach towards a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world in the 21st Century.

A graduate of Cornell University with a doctorate of distinction from the University of Bonn, Germany, Dr. Stillman is an international specialist of world culture and communication, collaborative negotiation, and human relationships. She is a United Nations representative for Soroptimist International, the world’s largest professional women’s service organization – 90,000 members, and a UN expert on women, culture and the dynamics of social development. For 25 years Linda has served as a professor/consultant of intercultural/interpersonal relations, global social development, and much more in several European countries and New York City. Currently, she is a professor/mentor of world cultural communication, human relationships and global civic engagement with the UN, at Pace University.

Dr. Stillman has participated extensively in diplomatic endeavors: she participated in the organization of the Reykjavik Summit 1986 and assisted Eastern European refugees during the reunification of Germany 1989-1993. She has founded/chaired diplomatic and multicultural organizations in Morocco, former Yugoslavia, Iceland, Germany and the USA/NYC. She manifests and motivates intercontinental and intercultural connections and partnerships through diverse and far-reaching initiatives to advance world social development and to promote international goodwill and understanding.

Dr. Stillman has helped organize numerous UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) NGO sessions as a UN representative. She has conducted multiple intercultural events at and for the UN. Her global civic engagement also includes: Chair of the UN CSW NGO Committees for the Integration off Men and Boys towards Gender Equality, Women and the Media, Advancement of Young People, and, currently, Women and Men Sharing Responsibilities, the theme of the 2009 UN CSW. She also serves on the boards of the UNIFEM USA NY Association; UN Millennium Development Goals Global Watch, and the American Association of University Women. She is also a published writer and editor and considers herself a global citizen residing in midtown Manhattan.

MS. SEMA GURUN
Sema Gurun is an International psychotherapist who specializes in difficulties of cultural adaptation, and the treatment of anxiety and depression. She works with the clientele who are plaintiffs of issues around love and work, helping them to become more comfortable within their lives by developing better strategies for coping and adapting to life’s cycles within their cultural setting.

She has been practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for twenty years in New York City and the International community within it. Until 2008 she serves as a staff member in the United Nations Department for Political Affairs in the area of conflict resolution and peace building, while also serving as an ad hoc mental health advisor to UN Staff.

Ms. Gurun earned her Masters Degree in Social Work from New York University and trained as a psychoanalyst. She is also a painter and has had a lifelong interest in literature and the arts. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan