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A CALL TO ACTION: Active Voice Campaign

  THE CALL TO ACTION Active Voice aims to create a more supportive climate for young women to use their voices to address substantive issues, and in doing so, to develop leadership skills translatable across all professional and civic fields. Active Voice is a positive, pro-voice campaign, emphasizing examples in which young women have valiantly [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:16:59-04:00January 5th, 2016|Free Press, General, Journalism, News, Student, Uncategorized|Comments Off on A CALL TO ACTION: Active Voice Campaign
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Hearst Distinguished Lecture Series with Geneva Overholser – October 7, 2015

Leading From the Outside: Rethinking Journalism Leadership When Change is the new Normal Media shape our perception of the world, tell us what our communities are like -- even, to a large degree, who we are.  Often, they have been wrong, making us believe our neighborhoods are more unsafe than they are, for example, or [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00September 29th, 2015|General, Seminars|Comments Off on Hearst Distinguished Lecture Series with Geneva Overholser – October 7, 2015
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Strategies That Women Should Consider For Advancement In Careers

According to Katherine Hansen, the general impression is that women are now becoming incrementally more successful in the workforce. Women are represented in the workforce in greater numbers than ever and holding a higher percentage of managerial and executive jobs than in the past. Women-owned businesses have doubled in the last dozen or so years. [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00July 20th, 2015|General|Comments Off on Strategies That Women Should Consider For Advancement In Careers
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Do it for the vine

Vine is a popular video-sharing social media platform that allows users to post and watch six-second videos. The most popular ones are creative and humorous. “Viners” with the most followers and views use imaginative techniques and outrageous antics. So what does this mean for communicators? Here are some best practices to start your own Vine [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00June 20th, 2015|General|Comments Off on Do it for the vine
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Dr. Kopenhaver and Anne Vasquez to Appear on TV’s Focus on South Florida

Watch Dr. Kopenhaver this Sunday, May 24, 2015 on My TV 33's Focus on South Florida with Irika Sargent at 10 a.m., as she promotes the center's own Leadership Fellows Program to the greater public. Our executive director will be joined on air by Anne Vasquez, the managing editor of the Sun Sentinel, to discuss the [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00May 21st, 2015|General, Leadership Fellows Program, News|Comments Off on Dr. Kopenhaver and Anne Vasquez to Appear on TV’s Focus on South Florida
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How Women Can Empower Each Other

“From the time we’re little girls, we’re taught to compete,” said Nelson during a recent conversation at CNN. “I need to be prettier, taller, smarter, my hair needs to be straighter, curlier, whatever it is. I need to get the better-looking guy. I need to always be better than because we’re taught to come from [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00May 20th, 2015|General|Comments Off on How Women Can Empower Each Other
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Henry Luce Foundation Awards Special Grant to FIU’s Kopenhaver Center for New Mentorship Initiative

Leadership Fellows Program to ignite the careers of female Hispanic/Latina media professionals NORTH MIAMI, FL – The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University (FIU) today announced it has received a $30,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to fund its Leadership Fellows Program to advance Hispanic women [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00March 26th, 2015|General, News|Comments Off on Henry Luce Foundation Awards Special Grant to FIU’s Kopenhaver Center for New Mentorship Initiative
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Communications Week at FIU!

As part of Communications Week at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus, the Kopenhaver Center, in conjunction with the School of Journalism & Mass Communication (SJMC), will be hosting the Leadership Webinar, "Moving Women Forward: A Call for Leadership Training in Communication Education." Kathy R. Fitzpatrick of FIU's SJMC and Carolyn Bronstein of DePaul University's [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00March 23rd, 2015|General, News, Webinars|Comments Off on Communications Week at FIU!
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Women Who Lead Conference at BBC on March 25, 2015

This Wednesday, March 25, 2015 the Women's Center at Florida International University will be holding its annual Women Who Lead Conference at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus. Please be sure to check it out! For a full itinerary of the daylong conference, visit: http://women.fiu.edu/women-who-lead-conference To register, visit: http://wwlbbc.eventbrite.com

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00March 23rd, 2015|General|Comments Off on Women Who Lead Conference at BBC on March 25, 2015
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Professor Segev named associate director

Congratulations to professor Sigal Segev, who was recently named associate director for programming and research at the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Biscayne Bay campus. The main goal at the center is to empower both women professionals and academics in all the fields of communication. “We, at the [...]

By |2017-01-12T19:17:00-04:00March 9th, 2015|General, News|Comments Off on Professor Segev named associate director
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