Global Week

Each January, Castilleja School hosts Global Week to provide students with a unique opportunity to examine a globally relevant topic through workshops, projects, and in-depth engagement with speakers.

Global Week 2021 — Global Health: Investing in our Collective Future

In the midst of a pandemic, Global Health: Investing in our Collective Future highlights the power of global partnership and cooperation in health as we navigate the realities of the novel coronavirus. Our shared global responsibilities must be underpinned by trust and common purpose. And our collective futures rely on robust research and data transparency for timely decision-making.

Global Health: How do we measure health? How does an epidemic become a pandemic? How is foundational research shared and for whom is it produced? What does successful preparedness and response look like?
Collective Responsibilities: What are the responsibilities of institutions, governments and individuals to Global Health? Whose voices are at the table? What are the implications of our decisions? How does international cooperation create access?
Data Transparency: How do we use data to promote greater equity? What are the social and political contexts from which we construct and interpret data? What are the standards for research and data? How does data inform timely decision-making?
Health Inequities: What are the racial disparities of healthcare access? How do we dismantle and reconstruct the systems that disproportionality impact communities of color? What are the consequences of neglect and lack of access on marginalized communities?

Global Week 2021 will be a 4-day online experience from Monday, January 4—Thursday, January 7, 2021.

GLOBAL WEEK 2021 SCHEDULE

Global Week 2021 is hosted virtually on Zoom. All events are 60 minutes in length.

MON, JAN 4	TUES, JAN 5	WEDS, JAN 6	THURS, JAN 7
9:30AM PST — COVID-19 and Health Security: A Dynamic Response to the Global Pandemic Caitlin Rivers, PhD, MPH, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security 2:15PM PST — Health Disparities in the Context of COVID-19 Megan Mahoney, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Primary are and Population Health at Stanford University, and Chief of Staff at Stanford Health Care Priya Singh, Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Associate Dean at Stanford Medicine	9:30AM PST — COVID-19 and National Security: What are the National Security Implications of the Pandemic? Suzanne Spaulding, Senior Adviser at Center for Strategic and International Studies 2:15PM PST — UN Sustainable Development Goals: Global Health and the Sustainable Development Goals Dustin Liu, 9th UN Youth Observer to the United Nations Amie Shao, Principal at MASS Design Group Wynn Walent, Executive Director at Colorado Haiti Project 7:00PM PST — Community Evening: Lessons from the Pandemic and California's Response Traducción al español disponible para este evento / Spanish Translation offered for this event Sara Cody, MD, Health Officer and Director at the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department Bob Kocher, MD, Partner at Venrock and Adjunct Professor at Stanford Medicine	9:30AM PST – Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society Ruha Benjamin, PhD, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University 2:15PM PST — Alumnae Panel — Priorities and Principles of Women’s Health: A Global Perspective Naima D Bridges, MD '02, Obstetrician & Gynecologist and Assistant Chief at Kaiser Permanente Joanna Busza '90, Associate Professor, Sexual & Reproductive Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Jane McConnell, PhD ’81, Biology/Biotech/Climate Change Teacher at Castilleja School	9:30AM PST — Why Did the U.S. Pandemic Response Fail, and What Is the Solution? Charity Dean MD, MPH&TM, CEO and Co-Founder at The Public Health Company Group, Inc. Scott Rosenstein, Coronavirus Special Advisor at Eurasia Group 1:00PM PST — Striving for Equity in Global Health and Pandemic Response Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, Medical Director, Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories

MON, JAN 4

TUES, JAN 5

WEDS, JAN 6

THURS, JAN 7

9:30AM PST —
COVID-19 and Health Security: A Dynamic Response to the Global Pandemic
Caitlin Rivers, PhD, MPH, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

2:15PM PST —
Health Disparities in the Context of COVID-19
Megan Mahoney, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Primary are and Population Health at Stanford University, and Chief of Staff at Stanford Health Care
Priya Singh, Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Associate Dean at Stanford Medicine

9:30AM PST —
COVID-19 and National Security: What are the National Security Implications of the Pandemic?
Suzanne Spaulding,
Senior Adviser at Center for Strategic and International Studies

2:15PM PST —
UN Sustainable Development Goals: Global Health and the Sustainable Development Goals
Dustin Liu, 9th UN Youth Observer to the United Nations
Amie Shao, Principal at MASS Design Group
Wynn Walent, Executive Director at Colorado Haiti Project

7:00PM PST —
Community Evening: Lessons from the Pandemic and California's Response
Traducción al español disponible para este evento / Spanish Translation offered for this event
Sara Cody, MD, Health Officer and Director at the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department
Bob Kocher, MD, Partner at Venrock and Adjunct Professor at Stanford Medicine

9:30AM PST –
Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
Ruha Benjamin, PhD, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University

2:15PM PST —
Alumnae Panel — Priorities and Principles of Women’s Health: A Global Perspective
Naima D Bridges, MD '02, Obstetrician & Gynecologist and Assistant Chief at Kaiser Permanente
Joanna Busza '90, Associate Professor, Sexual & Reproductive Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jane McConnell, PhD ’81, Biology/Biotech/Climate Change Teacher at Castilleja School

9:30AM PST —
Why Did the U.S. Pandemic Response Fail, and What Is the Solution?
Charity Dean MD, MPH&TM, CEO and Co-Founder at The Public Health Company Group, Inc.
Scott Rosenstein, Coronavirus Special Advisor at Eurasia Group

1:00PM PST —
Striving for Equity in Global Health and Pandemic Response
Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, Medical Director, Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories

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Past Global Weeks

2020: Seats at the Table: Women, Peace & Security

GLOBAL WEEK 2020

Seats at the Table: Women, Peace and Security recognizes the power of women as storytellers, activists, and strategists and honors the continued commitments to this work on the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council's landmark resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

We believe that understanding others’ perspectives is at the heart of meaningful engagement with conflict resolution and a key competency to global leadership. Understanding that the personal is political, Global Week 2020 will explore women's experiences, voices, and activism in the context of peace and security:

Women as storytellers. Balancing Narratives — Who has the power and access to construct narratives, particularly in armed conflicts? How have women been part of or pushed back from building these narratives? How have new communication tools changed how we understand and engage with conflict?

Women as activists. Building Belonging — How can we change the way we relate to conflict? How do we talk to people with differing perspectives and experiences? How do we create communities that hold space for competing narratives and perspectives?

Women as strategists. Gendered Experiences — What are the consequences of our deeply gendered experiences of the world? How does an intersectional lens change the way we experience conflict and peacemaking?

“Almost 20 years since the adoption of resolution 1325, we don’t just need to be at the peace table. It’s time to redesign the table.” ~Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, Chair of the Board of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

Global Week 2020 will be a 4-day experience from Monday, January 6—Thursday, January 9, 2020.

During the week our all-school activities will take the shape of listening to keynote speakers and panels and participating in dynamic group workshops on the following topics:

MONDAY:
Womxn, Peace and Security: Defining Our Collective Narratives
Dr. Melissa I. M. Torres, Vice President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Gendering Conflict: Towards a Feminist Understanding of Peace & Conflict
Carly Fox, History Teacher, Castilleja School

TUESDAY:
Women with Voice: Critical Perspectives on Security from the Local to the Global
Lauren Bean Buitta, Founder and Executive Director, Girl Security
S. Leslie Ireland, Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis
Feker Kebere, Promotion and Resource Mobilization
Moderated by Dr. Danielle Zach, Postdoctoral Fellow, City College of New York, CUNY

New Global Security and the Need for Understanding, Innovation, and Leadership
The Honorable Susan M. Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence

COMMUNITY EVENING EVENT:
Engaging Security Challenges in the Twenty-first Century: The Role of Diversity, Representation, and Women's Empowerment

Liesl Gerntholtz, Deputy Executive Director for Programme, Human Rights Watch
The Honorable Susan M. Gordon, Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Moderated by Dr. Danielle Zach, Postdoctoral Fellow, City College of New York, CUNY

WEDNESDAY:
Show Me the Women: The Impact of Conflict on Women and their Role in Peace Making
Liesl Gerntholtz, Deputy Executive Director for Programme, Human Rights Watch

Alumnae Panel: Developing Peace through Gender Equality
Elizabeth Zumwalt Harmon ’08, Policy Analyst, Countering Transnational Organized Crime Policy, Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Headquarters
Bronte Kass ’14, Program Manager, Stanford University
Neelam Noorani ’91, Senior Human Rights Legal Consultant

THURSDAY:
Empowering Girls in National Security
Lauren Bean Buitta, Founder and Executive Director, Girl Security
Gina Bennett, Board Director, Girl Security
Erin Connolly, Associate Program Director, Girl Security

The Role of the U.S. in Global Security
Gina Bennett, Board Director, Girl Security

Please note that only some of these events are open to guests, please RSVP for selected events here.

Use the button below to download the Global Week 2020 Program which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

Download the Booklet

Recap of Global Week 2020: Seats at the Table: Women, Peace and Security

2019: The Promises and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence

The GW 2019 Agenda

Monday, January 7 — Thursday, January 10

During the week our all-school activities will take the shape of listening to keynote speakers and panels and participating in dynamic group workshops on the following topics:

MONDAY:

Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems

Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow and SVP at Google Research and Machine Intelligence

A Design Challenge with Machine Learning

Carissa Carter, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Stanford d.school

TUESDAY:

Ethics and Inclusion in AI

Tess Posner, CEO at AI4ALL

AI Ethics and Accountability: Exploring the Responsibility of Governments, Companies and the Public

Matt Cagle, Technology & Civil Liberties Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California

Margot Gerritsen, Professor at Stanford University

Purin Phanichphant, Artist at Minnesota Street Project

Natasha Singer, Reporter at The New York Times

Anastasia Victor, Resident at Gray Area / Mozilla XR Studio

COMMUNITY EVENING EVENT:

AI, News, Ethics and the Future of Work

Vaughan Smith, Executive at Facebook

WEDNESDAY:

The Coded Gaze: Unmasking Algorithmic Bias

Joy Buolamwini, Founder of Algorithmic Justice League

Coming Back to Talk About the Future: An Alumn(AI) Panel

Ayesha Bajwa ’14, Victoria Dean ’13, Kathleen Kenealy ’15, and Shivani Nishar ’16

THURSDAY:

What makes a Technology Radical and Revolutionary

DJ Patil, Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist

Rap Guide to Consciousness (Human and Machine)

Baba Brinkman, Rapper and Science Communicator

The Art in Artificial Intelligence

In conjunction with Global Week 2019, The Art in Artificial Intelligence featuring interactive art pieces by Yotam Mann, Purin Phanichphant, and Anastasia Victor will be on exhibition. While remaining neutral on the debate between optimists and pessimists, the exhibit aims to examine other tangible forms of AI as perceived by artists and creatives working with technology. Part educational and part thought-provoking, the show aims to attract and spark dialogue among thought-leaders in the field, as well as aspiring next-generation technologists.

Opening Reception with Artists: Tues Jan 8, 5:00-7:00pm

Exhibition on view: Anita Seipp Gallery, Mon Jan 7, 2019 - Fri Jan 18, 2019

Download the booklet

Includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

Global Week 2019

This year’s Global Week The Promises and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence investigated how might we push the boundaries and understand the limits of artificial intelligence today and in the future.

AI in our Daily Lives — how does AI support us in tasks and challenges in our daily lives?
Big Data — how might AI help us solve intractable problems and identify solutions more effectively?
Algorithmic Accountability – how might AI manage risk?
Equity and Bias – how might AI respond to and shape social and cultural bias?
Inspired Creativity — how might AI help us understand the power of collaboration and inspire us to be more creative?
Personal Responsibility — how should we engage with and shape algorithmically-driven processes and decisions?

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2018: Equity in Education

Everything we do in life, from tying your shoes to performing brain surgery, is learned. So education is as key to survival as food. Just as there should be equity and fairness in everybody having enough food to survive, there should be equity and fairness in education.

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

What will we think about both during the year and during Global Week?

Community Learning Opportunities and Conversations
Equity is a complicated topic because it includes questions of access and resource distribution that are driven by both social and cultural norms and economic factors. These norms and factors look different around the globe, and there are many competing points of view about rights and best practices in the field of education. Our theme is designed to help us understand what questions to ask when we are trying to understand what makes an educational experience equitable in a specific context.

Grade-Level Learning Opportunities and Conversations
Depending upon each classes’ grade-level theme and classroom projects and discussions, students will have different opportunities to learn more about both the terminology (i.e. access, resource distribution, social factors, cultural factors, economic factors) and the concepts we’ll be talking about during Global Week.

What will the keynote topics be during Global Week?
During the week our all-school activities will take the shape of listening to keynote speakers and panels and participating in dynamic group workshops on the following topics:

Tuesday

Is Education a Human Right?

Jonathan Jansen, author of Leading for Change: Race, Intimacy and Leadership on Divided University Campuses, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State in South Africa, and recipient of the inaugural Alumni Excellence in Education Award, Stanford University.

The Challenges and Power of EdTech: Equity and Access to Skills and Competency Acquisition

Explore tools and hear stories from leading voices in the EdTech space. These innovators are striving to re-imagine how technology can enhance learning without undermining our capacity to think critically, develop a depth of knowledge on a subject, and engage face-to-face with one another.

Wednesday

Equity in Education: The Global Learning Landscape** Panel: Hear from activists and educators who are shaping the learning landscape in communities across the globe. Special guests include activist and community leader Thulani Madondo, Executive Director of Kliptown Youth Program in South Africa, 2012 CNN Hero, 2013 200 Young South Africans Making A Difference awardee

Equity in Education for Girls: “Righting History”** Rosie Rios, 43rd Treasurer of the United States of America

Thursday

C-Education: Student Voice and Choice to Hear from Local Educators and Equity Leaders

Equity in Education: Closing the Opportunity Gap in the United States** Prudence Carter, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at U.C. Berkeley and author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. & South African Schools (2012) and Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance (2013), co-edited with Dr. Kevin Welner

EVENING EVENT: Education Transforming Lives, Daily Challenges in a Broader Context. Joel Samoff, Jonathan Jansen, and Thulani Madondo

Friday

Equity in Education: Local Challenges and Local Solutions Panel Discussion

2017: Migration - Living in a World on the Move

Our guiding questions exemplify the complexity of the topic and the nuanced arguments for and against specific international, national, and personal positions.

Human Migration Patterns Across Time

Why do people migrate?
How do we trace the migrations of humans over time?

Nations, Borders, and the Construction of Citizenship

How do people organize themselves?
How do core beliefs turn into governing structures and laws?
How does maintaining a national border affect the quality of life within a region?
How do people protect themselves and their interests?
Is citizenship exclusionary? What does "inclusive citizenship look like?
Why are there laws around migration?

Migration Beyond the Law

Why do people migrate off the grid? Why do people migrate beyond traditional structures of borders, nationality, or citizenship? What risks do they face?
What types of status do off the grid migrants have in their new communities?
How does the extent to which migrant groups assimilate (culturally, socially, and politically) play a role in their status?

Imagining the Future

What are the essential human rights that should be afforded all people?
What are the tensions between concepts of nationalism and citizenship and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
How are the current social, political, intellectual, cultural, and economic forces affecting the traditional concepts of citizenship?

This year the week concludes by honoring migration stories of our nation’s past and imagining a more inclusive future for all of us with a concert by At the Table with Dr. King. The celebration will highlight the events of the Civil Rights Movement and hopefully inspire our students to assume responsibility for their own role as strong leaders in the world beyond our circle.

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

2016: Climate Change

2015: The City - Fortification to Imagination

GW 2015 explores the history and future of cities. How do historians, anthropologists, urban planners, futurists, and bureaucrats think about cities? Begin your thinking about cities with our guiding questions and key concepts, and join us for a keynote arc moving from past to future.

Guiding questions: What has the role of the city been throughout history? How are decisions made in a city? How is community built and maintained in a city? What is the future of “the city”?

Key Concepts Cities Must Have:
Water
Justice
Diversity
Sense of Identity tied to Place

Keynote Arc:
What is Urban?
What is a City?
The History of Cities
The Future of Cities
The Megacity: Challenges and Opportunities

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

2014: Artists with a Cause

Thank you to everyone who engaged in Global Week 2014: Artists with a Cause. We were so pleased so share the week engaging with students, employees, and community members. All ages were seen getting down with New Style Motherlode, exploring the role of plastic in the world with One Beach Plastic, learning the beauty of graffiti art with Mural, Music and Arts Project, and much, much more. Here is a brief recap of some of the amazing projects the students were working on during the entirety of the week.

Middle School
The 6th Grade worked with Daniel Barash, creating shadow puppet movies around a global issue of the students' choice. 7th Graders were inspired by speakers, movies and workshops focused on food justice, as well as a visit to the San Francisco Ferry Building. The 8th Grade interviewed elders from the Stevenson House and then wrote up their stories. The week culminated in an art project given to the elders to represent their life story.

Upper School
The 9th Grade worked with presentation guru Michael Moon on their year-long interdisciplinary project. The 10th Grade students worked with entrepreneur Jess Munro to create and develop their own innovative solution to a global issue. We missed the 11th Grade on campus; however, they were off engaging with the global community on their Investigator trip in either China, India, Guatemala or France. The 12th Grade worked on three separate projects: a photographic essay, led by Amanda Jones, documentary films with MTV World's Raeshem Nijhon, and a school graffiti mural.

Elective Workshops
All students had the opportunity to connect with local and global artists, as well as do hands-on work during their elective selections. Some beautified our campus in a student-led "graffiti moss" elective, others learned the art of plating with local social entrepreneur Kathleen Hughes of Ada's Café, while others learned about the art of merchandising when they designed a teen pendant for the American market to support the organization Made by Survivors.

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

2013: Standing Up and Speaking Out

Youth Speaks officially kicked off Global Week 2013, "Social Change: Standing Up and Speaking Out". Youth Speaks is a non-profit, which empowers the next generation of leaders, self-defined artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacies. They challenge youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change.

During the week, students engaged in a variety of experiences. Week-long workshops focused on Grassroots Movements, Social Media and the Protestor, the Political Process, and Partnership in Action.

Download the booklet which includes workshop descriptions, speaker bios, and schedules for each grade level.

Global Week

Each January, Castilleja School hosts Global Week to provide students with a unique opportunity to examine a globally relevant topic through workshops, projects, and in-depth engagement with speakers.

Global Week 2021 — Global Health: Investing in our Collective Future

GLOBAL WEEK 2021 SCHEDULE

Past Global Weeks

2020: Seats at the Table: Women, Peace & Security

2019: The Promises and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence

The GW 2019 Agenda

Global Week 2019

2018: Equity in Education

2017: Migration - Living in a World on the Move

2016: Climate Change

2015: The City - Fortification to Imagination

2014: Artists with a Cause

2013: Standing Up and Speaking Out

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Meet the Team

Stacey Kertsman

Emily Clark

Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman

Andrew Stober

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