The Jewish Federation’s Sylvia Weisz Women’s Philanthropy invites you to join us for our first Pritzker event of 2020 featuring Melissa Berton and a screening of her Academy Award-winning Best Documentary Short Period. End of Sentence.
Seating is limited — RSVP by Wednesday, March 11th.
For further information, please contact Sylvia Crump at SCrump@JewishLA.org or (323) 761-8225.
Dietary laws observed
Our Federation’s number one priority is the health, well-being and safety of our community. We will be postponing this event until further notice.
Thank you for your understanding and we will keep you posted.
Melissa Berton
An Academy Award-winning producer for Best Documentary Short (2019), 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.
REMARKABLE WOMEN.
REMARKABLE GATHERINGS.
Special thanks to Jeanne and Tony Pritzker for underwriting the series as a loving tribute to Tony’s late mother, Susan S. Pritzker. The goal of the Pritzker series is to feature dynamic and educational presentations by top professionals, appealing to women of all stages of life.
This event is open to all women who make a minimum gift of $500
to The Jewish Federation’s 2020 Annual Campaign.
Minimum gift waived for first-time Pritzker attendees.
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