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Mission

To provide a forum for Asian American female professionals and graduate students to accomplish the following:

• Develop relevant skills for career leadership and development
• Build meaningful relationships with other AA women
• Explore personal and professional issues in the context of AA women in the workforce

Membership

The ASPIRE Professionals Series will be offered to dues-paying adult members and non-members.

The annual membership fee for ASPIRE adults will be $35. Members will receive discounted prices to Professionals events. The contribution will go toward all Professional Series related expenses and help fund other ASPIRE programs for high school and college audience. Membership is valid for a year starting the month of your registration.

Program Details

The Professional Series focuses on the Professional Development (PD) and Personal Enrichment (PE) of Asian American professional women.

Professional Development Programs (PD) aim to provide a forum for AA women to discuss and develop their careers through workshops, lectures, and guest speaker events.

PD Topics

• Maintain work/life balance
• Create a successful career cycle
• How do women CEOs do it?
• Being an Asian American and a woman in the work place
• How to get over your leadership hump

Personal Enrichment Programs (PE) are designed to enrich personal (non-career related) lives of members and non-members. Programming provides enjoyable mediums for professionals to build relationships with each other through social networking events and shared experiences.

PE Events

• Luncheon at award winning Elephant Walk with presentations by Cambodian mother/daughter proprietors, Longteine and Nadsa de Monteiro
• Private tour of the MFA
• Food sampling and chit-chatting with Ming Tsai at Blue Ginger
• Meet Joanne Chang – owner of Flour Bakery in the South End
• Mingle at a fashion boutique on Newbury

Upcoming Events

• Our Personal Enrichment event in January featuring Diane Danielson from the Downtown Women's Club! Diane will share tips on how to continuously reinvent ourselves to achiever higher goals.
• In Feburary, Deb Rosenblum will kick-off our first Professional Development event in '06 by talking about how to use our cultural backgrounds as assets in a Western work environment. We'll also discuss ways to battle negative stereotypes of Asian American women.
• In March, we'll have a tasting at Cambodian mother and daughter owned Elephant Walk in Boston! Meet the Asian American pair who started this hip and award-winning restaurant and taste their talent!
• Later in the spring, Joanne Chang, Flour Bakery owner and ASPIRE panelist, will open up her bakery for an outdoors tasting. This is sure to be a delicious event!

We look forward to seeing you at our events. Please contact Chair Ju Rhyu at professionals@girlsaspire.org with any questions.