Fempire is the Women in Management club’s flagship conference. This student-led initiative celebrates and empowers female-identifying leaders in business and society, bringing together students, alumni, professionals, and community members. Co-leading this year’s event with my classmate Amanda Quenard y Fuentecilla has been a highlight of my SOM experience.

I learned the importance of female empowerment at a young age. My hardworking single mother, and the strong women who surrounded her, made sure I understood that families, companies, and societies thrive when women succeed. As a young professional, I encountered the feminist author Caroline Criado Perez, who writes about the “gender data gap”—basically, the idea that our society makes important economic, healthcare, educational, and policy decisions with data that fails to consider gender. Data too often reflects men’s, rather than women’s, experiences, and that has been a crucial root cause of inequality. Her work inspired me to pursue a business degree.

Read more at: https://som.yale.edu/story/2024/living-my-values-through-yale-soms-womens-empowerment-conference