• January 22: Womensphere Emerging Leaders Global Summit 2011: The Next Generation of Women Leaders Transforming the World, Panel: Environment, Health, and Sustainable Development, Urban Zen Foundation Center, New York, NY

The one-day conference brought together women leaders from the top companies in corporate America, as well as women from top undergraduate and graduate programs across the world.

• February 17: Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania: The Changing the World for Women and Girls: A Faithful Response to the Millennium Development Goals, St. Thomas’ Church, Whitemarsh, PA

Women empowerment is the underlying goal of the conference “by and for women”. Through this conference, each woman had a chance to learn about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger, Reduce Child Mortality and Improve Maternal Health, and Achieve Universal Primary Education.

• February 22: The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, A Committee of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations, Women, Climate Change and the New Green Economy, Church Center of the UN, New York, NY

The conference showcased women’s increasing involvement in the Green Economy, and included examples of new entrepreneurial ventures and micro-financing programs.

• June 21: Cracking the Nut Conference: Overcoming Obstacles to Rural and Agriculture Finance, Financing Climate Smart Agriculture, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC

The conference's aim was to accelerate the impact of the world’s leading rural and agricultural development and finance leaders by uniting them in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage and large scale change.