The Monterey Bay Chapter of the UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION invites you and your friends to its International Women’s Day Celebration & Potluck Dinner
Friday, March 7, 2014, 6:00 to 9:00 pm,
at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 490 Aguajito Rd., between Carmel and Monterey,
Bring an international or favorite dish or a beverage, enough to serve 8 people, by 6:00pm. Everyone is encouraged to wear some international or ethnic clothing. Admission is FREE!
The Program includes 2 presentations:
-¡PODER! a short documentary about the Power of Girls for Change in Guatemala.
-Changing the World – by Investing in Girls Globally! –
Speaker: Dr. Denise Dunning , Executive Director of LET GIRLS LEAD, a UN Foundation-funded initiative to Improve Girls’ Education, Health, and Livelihoods Globally. The main countries of Let Girls Lead’s activities are Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia and Malawi. Let Girls Lead has contributed to improving the lives of more than 3 million girls through laws, programs, and funding that protect girls from violence, ensure they can go to school and see a doctor when they need one, and learn skills to escape poverty.
Let Girls Lead presents ¡PODER!, a documentary film that tells this powerful story of girl-led change in Guatemala. Produced by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Lisa Russell and filmed in an innovative narrative, participatory style, the film features Elba and Emelin (13 and 16) as actors portraying themselves. ¡PODER! premieres worldwide in March 2014 for International Women’s Day.
For more information contact Gabriele Simbriger-Williams, Program Committee Chair, United Nations Association Monterey Bay at 831-594-6696 or mail to: gsimbriwilli@aol.com
MCySec and the Cyber Security Student Working group hosted David Aucsmith, Senior Director of Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments on 28 January 2014. In addition to holding 33 patents, Mr. Aucsmith has been heavily involved in computer security and cybercrime issues for more than 30 years. He has been an industry representative to numerous international, government and academic organizations including the National Academy advisory board on Survivability and Lethality Analysis and the Directorate Advisory Council for the National Security Directorate of Pacific Northwest National Labs. He is co-chairman of the FBI’s Information Technology Study Group, a member of the Secret Service Task Force on Computer Aided Counterfeiting, a member of the President’s Task Force on National Defense and Computer Technology and a member of the Department of Defense’s Global Information Grid Senior Industry Review Group. Aucsmith was also U.S. industry representative to the G8 Committee on Organized, Transnational and Technological Crime where he participated directly in the G8 summits in Paris, Berlin and Tokyo. At MIIS last week, Mr. Aucsmith presented on “Cyber Security and Beyond” which detailed the evolution of the internet, technological devices and cyber threats. He focused on the complicated relationship between the government and private sector in identifying and managing the cyber threats from state and non-state actors that exist today. Mr. Aucsmith concluded by demonstrating the multitude of ways the private sector is able to assist government entities in managing this phenomenon.
Day #5 results (Friday) are in!
Join MIIS Alumnus Nat Skinner for a casual conversation about careers in the field of Energy Planning and Analysis. Monday, December 9, 2013, 12:10 – 1:40pm, Morse B206. 
The MIIS Student Council would like to invite you to the MIIS Graduate Party this Friday, December 13th from 5-7pm in the Samson Center. Come and celebrate the accomplishments of the fall graduating class.