SHE SAILS 2023

Number of States + Washington, D.C. represented by attendees.

7 International Regions represented by attendees, including Seoul and Daejon in South Korea; Shanghai, Xi’an and Hangzhou in China; Milano in Italy; and Zurich in Switzerland.

panelists and moderators

100 toiletry bags assembled for the guests of Rosie’s Place, founded in 1974 as the first women-only shelter in the United States.

54 12 panel topics

3,000+ books collected for the Rosie’s Place lending library.

“I would ask you to put down your mirrors and any other handheld devices, close down the dispiriting dirge of streaming videos and shaming ads — a ‘pas de deux’ between you and your false dance partner, the screen — silence your sabotaging inner dialogue, and instead, with an outward gaze, tackle the implausible or the seemingly impossible, the fascinating and the infuriating, with a personal resolve to believe in yourself and your ability to give good learning a whirl.”

1. Keynote Speaker Margaret Boles Fitzgerald ’73, P04

2. The Dana Hall Rock Band — Puckni Bhengsri ’24, Sophia Cannistraro ’26 and Sura Zhang ’23 — perform “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

3. Kate Ives ’98, a panelist at The Building Blocks of Architecture session

4. Student leader Ayelen Herrera ’24 at Dana Hall’s First Hackathon: Learn, Create, Collaborate

5. Panelist Kate Okun ’18 at the STEM and Stats — From Dana to the Stars session

6. Panelist Oya Bangura ’93 leads the Let’s Get Moving! session.