Own it 2023

For our OWN IT 2023, we hosted our first ever OWN IT Weekend, which consisted of both a conference and festival. After a year of growth, attendees were encouraged blaze the trail and Burn Bright.

Keynote Speaker

Maggie Krell

Maggy is the Special Advisor to the California Attorney General. She is an admirable woman who has a significant amount of accomplishments!

To elaborate, Maggy Krell is an attorney who has dedicated her entire career to seeking justice for vulnerable individuals. She took down the largest human trafficking website in the world, fought against immigrant family separation during the Trump administration, and served as Chief Legal Consultant for Planned Parenthood of CA.

Industry Panel Speakers

Our industry panel was full of successful women who give back in business, education, medicine, politics, and sustainability!

Alana Matthews

Environmental Advocate/prosecutor/Sac County District Attorney

Women in Politics

Rufaro Kangai

Director of Individual Major Gifts at Global Fund for Women.

Women in Education

Trupti Kalbag

VP of AES Clean energy

Women in Sustainability

Lynn Aguilera

Executive Director at Stanford Medicine Children's Health

Women in Medicine

Ashlie Bryant

Women in Entrepreneurship

WorkShops

Blaze the Trail: Business

Mercy Helget

Global Leadership consultant

Virginas Williams

CGI Tech Consulting

Celina Steward

Sr. Associate at McKinsey

Mary Serafin

Accenture business design/gender impact

Ignite Your Passion for Tech

Vaishali Jain

Software engineer at pinterest

Taboka Velempini

Tesla Software Product Manager

Evelyn Nguyen

Web developer

Fueling Your Fire: Portfolio Presentation/Self Promotion

Izzy Kellar

Tatoo Artist, davis alum

Zelene Molina

Talent Acquisition and Outreach Coordinator

Anna Hjartoy

interior desginer, davis alum

OWN IT FESTIVAL

The first ever OWN IT Festival was introduced in during 2023 own it weekend under the theme Burn Bright. The Goal of festival is to encourage attendees to connect to their mental health, and create a welcoming environment to help distract from outside stressors. It consisted of live entertainment, food trucks, a marketplace, and workshops

There have been several different workshops, some of which was yoga, meditation, pot painting, and self-defense.
The market was full of student run organizations, along with several local vendors. The vendors sold things from jewelry and nails to clothes and crotchet goods.
The line up for entertainment consisted of solo performances, DJs, dance teams part of UC davis, and a local band.