EXPERIENCES
Women Rising has led several high-profile events, including the first TEDxAustinWomen in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, and the 2017 Women’s March on Austin rally, which became the largest gathering of women in Texas History.
We have also served as Executive Producer of March for Our Lives NYC, as Director and Executive Producer for the United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles, Prevention Magazine’s National R3 Summit, and the Official Women in Football Party at Super Bowl LIII.
UNITED STATE OF WOMEN SUMMIT
Women Rising directed and produced all filming at the 2018 United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles, headlined by Former First Lady Michelle Obama. Our team filmed and streamed the 8-hour summit as well as brought Hollywood together for the first time to stream and sponsor the programming for women across the country. Women Rising was very proud to unite YouTube and Facebook as co-streaming partners, with Dreamworks TV, Sony Pictures, and Paramount Pictures as co-sponsors of the summit.
CELEBRATING THE WOMEN OF FOOTBALL
Women Rising produced and captured all filming for the official Celebrating Women of Football party at the 2019 Super Bowl in Atlanta. Paramount Pictures film What Men Want, starring Taraji P. Henson, producer Will Packer joined us with a live conversation with the leading female NFL sports agent Kelli Masters on stage followed by an exclusive look at the film.
FEMALE STORYTELLERS CONTEST
In partnership with Lionsgate, Imagine Entertainment, and the director of The Spy Who Dumped Me, Women Rising created an opportunity for female storytellers to share meaningful, heartfelt, and hilarious stories with the world. Inspired by The Spy Who Dumped Me, a hilarious buddy comedy starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon and directed by Susanna Fogel, we invited female filmmakers to share their stories about enduring friendships - with lots of laughs! The winner received $15,000 to create their next short film, a trip to Los Angeles for an influencer screening of The Spy Who Dumped Me, and a meet and greet with the filmmakers.
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES, NYC
March for Our Lives was created, inspired, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of school shootings that has become all too familiar. In the tragic wake of the seventeen lives brutally cut short, dozens injured and thousands impacted in Parkland, Florida, Women Rising came on board as Executive Producers for the March for Our Lives NYC to help amplify the voices of survivors.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY WITH MARIA SHRIVER
To celebrate International Women's Day 2018, Women Rising hosted a sold-out, private book signing and conversation in Austin featuring Maria Shriver and her New York Times bestseller, I've Been Thinking... Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life.
PROJECT MAVERICK
Project Maverick brings girls, their grown-ups, and allies (organizations, companies, and innovation partners) together to create opportunities to practice new habits of power: competition, origination, disruption, and risk-taking. Women Rising is proud to be an Advisory Member and producer of the Maverick Mentorship Platform; empowering girls to develop their vision and hone their ambition, becoming independent thinkers and doers whose dreams, vision, and energy will change the world.
Benefitted Project Maverick
WOMEN'S MARCH ON AUSTIN
With only three weeks advance notice, Women Rising volunteered to direct and co-produce the Women’s March on Austin rally. From development, ideation, pre-production, creative direction, scripting, logistics, talent programming, and physical and post-production, our team whole-heartedly contributed to making the January 21st, 2017, event both the largest march as well as the largest gathering of women in Texas History.
CIRCULAR SUMMIT
Women Rising® produced, directed, programmed, and publicized Circular Summit, an invitation-only event for high-growth women entrepreneurs. A select group of esteemed female founders, mentors, media, investors, and experts came together during a two-day summit held in April in Houston, Texas.
Benefitted Andi Leadership Institute for Young Women
TEDxAUSTINWOMEN
In 2013, Women Rising produced the inaugural TEDxAustinWomen, in association with the United Nations Foundation, marking the first occasion the UN Foundation had joined as an official partner for any TEDx event. Women Rising handled all brand development, sponsorship sales, event planning, programming, pre-event, live, and post-production.
Benefitted the United Nations Foundation: Women, Girls & Population