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Upcoming

Join The Jane Club for a virtual writing retreat where you will expand your creativity into 2023. We will offer dedicated time and space for you to set aside your daily responsibilities to focus on writing through our expansive prompts. It will be a restorative getaway to reflect on your creativity, while also helping you productively engage with your writing.

Facilitated by Carmen Rios and Holly Payberg-Torroija. Stephanie Moberg will lead us through a meditation practice to spark our creativity before we begin our writing prompts.

February 26 2023, 10 am to 1 pm PT. Virtual. RSVP here.

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2023

• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Samara Bay (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with MONEY AND LOVE Authors Myra Strober & Abby Davisson (WATCH)
• New Year New Jane (Producer)
• Fireside Chat with THE APOLOGY Writer & Director Alison Star Locke (WATCH)
• Start More Than You Can Finish: Q&A with Author Becky Blades (WATCH)

2022

• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with ON BELONGING Author Kim Samuel (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Hailey Wierengo and Desta Tedros Reff, Executive Producers of A League of Their Own (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with THERAPY ISN’T JUST FOR WHITE PEOPLE Author Kiara Imani (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Katie Aselton (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Christie Hunter Arscott (WATCH)
• NWHM Panel: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine (WATCH)
• An Economy of Our Own: Digital Possibilities (REPLAY + RESOURCES)
• A Radical Gathering: Economic Solutions that Wage Life, Not War
• See Jane Work: Jane Brag Live Session Leader
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Alyssa Shelasky (WATCH)
• Mining a Moment in Time Writing Retreat: Facilitator
• The Jane Club: Women, the Web, and the Future of Democracy with Marie Tessier (WATCH)
• New Year, New Jane: Producer

2021

• The Meteor: Advancing Indigenous Justice w/ Return to the Heart Foundation (WATCH)
• The Jane Club One-Day Writing Retreat: Facilitator
• The Jane Club: UNPLANNED PARENTHOOD: Fireside Chat with Artist and Activist Michelle Hartney (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Sophie Santos in Conversation with Carmen Rios (WATCH)
• The Meteor: Real Talk About Disability Rights w/ Emily Ladau and Liz Plank (WATCH)
• A Sunday of One’s Own Writing Retreat: Facilitator
• Lift As We Rise Summit: Producer, Moderator of COLLECTIVE CARE session with Sally Kohn (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Author Kimberly Dark (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Amanda Montell, Author of Cultish (WATCH)
• JANE BRAG LIVE! with Carmen Rios (WATCH)
• 21 for ’21: Social Media Lead + Chat Concierge
• The Meteor x re-inc: Changing the Game in Tech w/ Fig O’Reilly and Meghan Kling (WATCH)
• An Economy of Our Own: Envisioning Feminist Economic Futures (WATCH)
• New Year, New Jane Summit: Producer

2020

• Vote Feminist Parade Co-Host (WATCH)
• #Feminism: Gender & the 2020 Election Symposium at Northeastern University (REMARKS)
• Reading + Q&A with Author Susan Rubin
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Sally Kohn (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Bust Co-Founder Marcelle Karp (WATCH)
• #WomenPowerVote Conversation w/ Women’s Action for New Directions and the Women’s Legislators Lobby (CLIPS)
• NWMAF Conference 2020: Social Media Strategy 101 Training
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with “Mrs. America” EP and Director Anna Boden (WATCH)
• Staying in the Game: IG Live with Adrienne Lawrence about Sexual Harassment (WATCH)
• The Art of Equal Pay Conversation Series Host + Emcee
• FORWARD by The Riveter: Fireside Chat with Michele Pred about The Art of Equal Pay (WATCH)
• Wine and Impact Series on “Intersectional Feminism and Your Power”
• Santa Barbara International Film Festival: Post-Screening Q&A with Pandora’s Box team

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had so much fun at the @officialsbiff with the @pandorasbxfilm crew—and really loved that we had the chance to explore the global #menstrualequity movement during our post-screening q&a after the premiere. this film is so powerful and so important. head over to @ms_magazine to watch the doc trailer and read the conversation between me @snowdocs @carinne.chambers.saini and @jenniferweisswolf!

A post shared by carmen rios (#vbadgrl) (@carmenriosss) on Feb 10, 2020 at 12:33pm PST

2019

• National Sexual Assault Conference: Keynote Conversation with “Surviving R. Kelly” Filmmaker dream hampton (WATCH)
• #MsBookClub: Cocktails and Conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn and Carmen Rios (WATCH)
• Diesel Bookstore Author Series: Live Conversation with Tracy Strauss
• Religious Intrusion in Healthcare Discussion Panelist
• “LAS SANDINISTAS!” Filmmaker Q&A with Ms., World Channel, PBS (WATCH)
• Feminism in Academia and the Workplace: UCLA American Association of University Women Conference
• #MsBookClub: Cocktails and Conversation with Cherríe Moraga and Carmen Rios
• Bold Voices Disrupting Rape Culture: Roll Red Roll Opening Week Q&A with Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman
• Period. End of Sentence. FYC Screening: Conversation with Director Reyka Zebtachi
• Merrimack College: Forging Your Feminist Future: A Conversation with Carmen Rios (WATCH)

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did i mention i'm not yet thirty but have received national acclaim for my work in feminist publishing or what

A post shared by carmen rios (#vbadgrl) (@carmenriosss) on Jan 28, 2019 at 11:00am PST

2018

• National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Amplifying Feminist Voices” Moderator
• National Sexual Assault Conference: “Social Media for Social Change” Presenter
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist

2017

• Ms. at 45: Gloria Steinem in Conversation with Ms. Writers and Editors
• National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Writing for the Popular Press” Panelist
• Democracy Wise Series at Vroman’s Bookstore: “Navigating Media” Panelist
• The Second Queer Internet Studies Conference Panelist (WATCH)
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator, Plenary Speaker

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Certain pundits said we’d only last 6 months. 45 years later, we’re still here. @ms_magazine

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2016

• A-Camp 2016: Workshop Leader, Panelist, Moderator
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator, Plenary Speaker

2015

• University of Wisconsin: “Queer and Feminist Media” Panelist
• A-Camp 2015: Workshop Leader, Panelist, Moderator
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator

2014

• FORCE “Consent Klatch!” Panelist
• A-Camp 2014: Workshop Leader, Panelist, Moderator
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator

2013

• National Sexual Assault Conference: Keynote Speaker, Presenter
• A-Camp October: Workshop Leader, Panelist
• A-Camp May: Workshop Leader, Panelist
• The Archival is Political: Preserving Women’s History at the Sallie Bingham Center (Merle Hoffman, Eleanor Smeal, Carmen Rios and Jaclyn Friedman in Conversation)

2012

• A-Camp September: Panelist
• A-Camp April: Moderator, Panelist
• Momentum Conference: Panelist
• Robyn Matthias Student Research Conference: Presenter
• Chesapeake American Studies Association Conference: Panelist

2011

• Slutwalk DC: Speaker, Media Organizer

2010

• SPARK Summit: “Girl Activists Speak Out” Panelist