Sam Chaltain, National Director, Forum for Education and Democracy discusses U.S. public education policy and school reform and introduces forum panelists. Topics include: closing the achievement gap, facilitating teachers’ success, and ESEA reauthorization.

Sam Chaltain, National Director, Forum for Education and Democracy discusses U.S. public education policy and school reform.  Topics include: closing the achievement gap, facilitating teachers’ success, and ESEA reauthorization

Question and answers session at the Economic Security for Women Conference. Topics include economic development, women of color and long-term wealth development.

Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever discusses the wealth of women as a crucial issue in U.S. economic recovery at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Representative Yvette Clarke (D-NY) discusses the importance of women-owned businesses as an asset building strategy at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

Maya Rockeymore and Dr. Heidi Hartman discuss how Obama’s Social Security reform policy may affect women and children receiving Social Security benefits and why now is not a good time to change public policy in regards to women of color and those struggling in poverty.

Meishu Lui of the Insight Center for Community Development discusses the importance of improving women of color's wealth and strategies for asset building and management at the Economic Security for Women Conference.

C. Nicole Mason, Ph.D., Executive Director at the Women of Color Policy Research Network at NYU, discusses how women of color, including immigrants, are often cheated when it comes to wealth management and asset building.

Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) discusses how women, particularly women of color, were especially hard hit by the great recession and the need for economic development and asset building for women at the Economic Security for Women Conference.