The joint AAUW celebration features a welcome and opening remarks by Eleni Kounalakis, California's Lieutenant Governor.

She is the first woman elected to this office and has served in this position since 2019.

The public is invited and may join the Zoom program by registering with EventBrite: https://aauw-womensdaycelebration.eventbrite.com

The program will feature comments by four additional speakers:

• Elizabeth Patterson, MURP, is a former mayor of the City of Benicia. She will describe her journey for a sustainable world from a young girl to a career in land use planning and management and elected office.
• Claudia Martinez-Schwarz, MPH, is a food policy expert who is administering a federal grant to educate rural high schoolers in Armenia and leading a USAID grant submission for STEM students in Colombia.
• Asha Bajaj, PT/DPT, has managed her own practice in physical therapy for 20 years, in which she focused on women’s health. She served as assistant professor of physical therapy at the University of California at San Francisco.
• Teresa Cheung is a licensed professional chemical engineer, MBAand a past Chair of the Northern California section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).She was the first women winner of the Institute’s most prestigious Professional Progress Award.

A question and answer session will be included, as well as a short video salute to international women leaders.