Barbara Stone Hollander '60 Lecture in Women's Leadership

"50+ Years of Title IX: The Fight for Gender Equity," featuring Deborah Slaner Larkin, Title IX Expert. Public reception at 6PM, followed by lecture and Q&A. Now retired as CEO at the Women’s Sports Foundation (where she served two stints from 1986-1992 and 2014-2017), Deborah Slaner Larkin has over forty years of executive experience in corporate, government and non-profit leadership. An expert in Title IX, Slaner Larkin has focused her career on promoting civil rights, women’s leadership, education for under-served youth, and gender equity on the local, regional, state, and national levels. Ms. Larkin also previously served as the Executive Director of the US Tennis Association’s Foundation.
Founded by Billie Jean King, the Women’s Sports Foundation serves as the collective voice for women’s sports, dedicated to creating leaders through sports participation. Under Slaner Larkin’s tenure, the Foundation launched Sports 4 Life, a national grassroots sports program providing access and opportunity for African-American and Hispanic girls aged 11-18; launched the Athlete Leadership Connection and Candid Conversations, leadership development programs for champion and student-athletes transitioning to their next careers; issued the ground-breaking research report “Beyond X’s and O’s,” uncovering gender bias in coaching in collegiate women’s sports; and established the Sports Advocacy Network, to address the growing decline of women in coaching.
Slaner Larkin served as one of 18 national members of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports from 1994 to 2002. She is also a board member of the National Women’s Law Center, where she was involved in their landmark Supreme Court victories: Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, which holds schools accountable for student-to-student sexual harassment; Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, which prohibits retaliation by schools against those who protest discrimination; and a major pay equity victory when President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act into law. Among her many awards, Slaner Larkin received the Billie Jean King Contribution Award and the Distinguished Woman of New York. Slaner Larkin holds a BA at the U. of Oregon and MBA in Marketing at the U of Maryland. In addition to the National Women’s Law Center, she serves on the boards of the Aspen Institute, Project Play, My Sisters’ Place, SUNY Purchase, RE:Gender (formally the National Council on Research for Women), and NYJTL.

Location

Mellon Board Room

Contact Information

Women's Institute
412-365-1446
WomensInstitute@snsxedu.net