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The 5th annual Urban Gurl/Suburban Swurl's National Day of Women and Girls' In Sports discussion will consider the impact of the fact that 50% of the USA sports participants in the 2024 Summer Olympics were women. What does that tell us? Is there a shift in equity and leadership? Join us as we hear from Pati Rolf, Director, Official's Development at USA Volleyball, and Geoff Thompson, Chair of London Youth Games and International Chair for the WOCPSCN International Sports Opportunities Committee, LA 28.

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The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France achieved gender equality by having an equal number of male and female athletes competing. This was the first time in the history of the Summer Olympics that gender equality was achieved. Did the Summer Olympics create gender balance and leadership? GUEST SPEAKER, PATI ROLF​, Former Volleyball Referee | Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 | Olympic Games Rio 2016. Pati Rolf is a former volleyball referee who spent 18 years at the international level before retiring after the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. She was part of the historic all-female gold medal officiating crew at the Rio 2016 volleyball women’s final and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the FIVB Rules of the Game & Refereeing Commission. Rolf's path to the Commission took her as a served President of our North Country Region of USA Volleyball in the 90s and was a member of the USA Badger Region Board when she move to Wisconsin to coach at Marquette. She was elected to the USA At-Large National Indoor Referees Representative Officials Assembly, then became Chair of the USA Rules of the Game Commission. GUEST SPEAKER, GEOFF THOMPSON, has a 40-year track record in the social and human development of young people and communities through sport. As a five times world karate champion, sports administrator, and politician, he has realized a unique range of skill sets that have seen him advise, develop and deliver social and human project and program initiatives with a specific emphasis on the balance between corporate social responsibility and legacy benefits to young people and communities globally. He is the Founder and Chair of the Youth Charter, (www.youthcharter.co.uk), a UK-based international charity and United Nations Non-Governmental Organisation, which, for 31 years has worked in the sport for development and peace movement in communities of historical deprivation and disadvantage globally. 2022 Find Your Legacy Guest Speaker 2025 JazzyJZ Peggy Gilbert Legendary Achievement Award for the organization that has a generational impact; Guest Speaker for Women & Girls’ National Day In Sports; International Congress Committee Member Sports Opportunities Committee Member; International Chair, International Sports Opportunities Committee-LA 28. ​

Introduction and Moderation Loretta Green-Williams, Founder & Executive Director, Women of Concern Professionals & Strategic Conscious Networking (WOCPSCN) • Sian Young – Founder & CEO, Siel Environmental Service Limited, Trinidad & Tobago • Tamu Petra Brown – Creator of the HER Business Model, St. Kitts & Nevis • Kevin Howell – CEO, Anchor Group Corp, Jamaica & New York

Walking In Silence for the Silenced: DV Solidarity Walk began in 2013 on the campus of UCLA, the US, Austrialia, countries in Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Now in its eleventh year, we are excited that more and more communities see the need to break the silence by Walking In Silence (WIS) @wocpscn. For more info: wocpscn.co