Sylvia Weisz Women’s Philanthropy invites you to join us via Zoom for our fall Pritzker event on Wednesday, October 14th, at 6:00 PM featuring Melissa Berton, Academy Award-winning producer of the 2019 Best Documentary Short Period. End of Sentence. Melissa — teacher, writer, and Founder & CEO of The Pad Project — will discuss her powerful film about Indian women and their fight against the stigma of menstruation. She will field inquiries from our Pritzker community during what is sure to be a lively Q&A session moderated by our very own Pritzker Co-Chair Eydie Desser. Please submit your questions ahead of time to Dylan Dorenfeld at DDorenfeld@JewishLA.org.
Couvert: $18 donation per person, which will go toward feminine hygiene products to Federation partner SOVA.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting and a link to Period. End of Sentence. so you have a chance to watch it prior to the event.
Please note that those who registered for this previously scheduled event in March have received their reimbursements.
About our speaker:
An Academy Award-winning producer, Melissa Berton is a Los Angeles-based teacher and writer. For the past decade, she has taught English at Oakwood Secondary School, where she inspired her students to make the film Period. End of Sentence. to raise awareness about the importance of menstrual health and education worldwide. She is the CEO and founder of The Pad Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the idea that “a period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education.” Berton has been a lifelong advocate for girls and women, serving as the faculty sponsor for Girls Learn International, a program of The Feminist Majority Foundation that promotes equal access to education for all genders. She has thrice participated as a delegate to the Annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, where she oversaw the largest delegation of students to the U.N. from any one high school in the country. A published poet, she was assistant editor at The Antioch Review for many years. Her screenplay Do Not Go Gentle, about the poet Dylan Thomas, had a live reading at the Geffen Theater in 2016, with Jack Black playing the role of Dylan Thomas. Berton earned her BA from UCLA and her MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. She is the recipient of the 2019 Eleanor Roosevelt Global Women’s Rights Award.
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We are so grateful for all of your support and hope you will join us on October 14th to experience firsthand through this event how we are working to connect with our community during this time.
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