Our Events
The Spectacular 2nd Annual Saris to Suits Run/Walk for Ma!
Location: 4780 Webb Bridge Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30005
Georgia Walk: Sunday, May 19, 2024
Time: 8:30AM
Register to Run: $25
Read and watch the heartwarming 2024 Sari Run/Walk for Ma for Mother’s Day.
3rd Annual Fashioning Sustainability Catwalk and Trunk Show: TBA
3rd Annual Fashioning Sustainability Catwalk and Trunk Show
2000 Ray Moss Connector Johns Creek, GA 30022
When: TBA
Jyothsna Hegde: jyothsna.hegde@gmail.com
Women First:
East to West to South
Keynote Speakers: Ambassadors Richard Verma and Warton Business Dean- Erika H James
Global Women’s Empowerment Conference
Expected speakers and attendees: Corporate women, legal activists, feminists, trailblazers, academics, thought leaders, government officials and heads of diversity of organizations.
Topics to include age-old patriarchal roadblocks and needs of the hour, plus:
- Gender and pay equality
- Lessons of COVID on gender, such as entrepreneurship, jobless numbers, female migrant workers dilemma & domestic violence.
- Sex and labor trafficking of girls
- Int’l laws to preserve dignity and justice following sham/fraudulent marriages
- Dowry and the economics of social curse
- Women in technology providing mentorship for girls in technology
- Legal reforms for diversity and inclusion
Empower. Inspire. Educate. Serve
Following the conference, registrants are invited to spend up to two weeks in India for service work and to meet with mission-aligned NGOs working at grassroots levels in three cities.
The Inaugural Asia-Pacific Empowerment India Conference Tentatively Scheduled for 2023
CANCELLED
Our previously planned women’s empowerment conference is continued. US State Department travel advisory forced Saris to Suits ® to cancel the unprecedented, inaugural symposium in New Delhi at the eleventh hour because of escalating rhetoric between Pakistan and India. Then the pandemic derailed all plans globally. Those who had planned to travel to India to speak or to serve on various thought-provoking panels in 2019 are trailblazers from four continents. Other notable women were added from technology, scientific and NGO worlds.
Garments such as “saris” or “suits” do not make a person more or less empowered. Rather, our trademark and registered brand implies these savvy and worldly women travel fluidly between continents, chasms, and communities AND serve as real-life role models for young girls and women. It has multiple meanings – East to West, woman to man, and the assimilation process reflected in attire occurs when women enter the workforce.
Saris to Suits ® is incorporated as a non-profit public charity, and exempt from federal tax under 501(C)3 Revenue Code, which means contributions are deductible under section 170 of the code.