Women in sports: Dousing the flame of inequality [fr]
France will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a few months and, for the first time in history, there will be as many women as men among athletes. This major breakthrough brings hope, and invites us to reflect on the place of women in sports. How has it evolved until 2024? What challenges still need to be addressed in order to completely douse the flame of inequality? Join us for an inspiring conversation at the Consulate General of France in New York on February 29, 2024, at 6:30 p.m.!
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About the speakers
Kely Nascimento
Kely Nascimento works in the sports and social impact sectors in collaboration with non-profits, brands, teams and athletes to help maximize their efforts in the advancement of human rights and equity. Ms. Nascimento has recently founded The Impact Game which aims to help organizations amplify their social impact strategies, amplify brand through storytelling, and create partnership opportunities. Daughter of soccer legend Pelé, Kely founded the Nascimento Foundation to uphold her father’s legacy using the beautiful game to promote and insure basic human rights for all. As an activist Kely travels the world and speaks on the advancement of gender, race and human rights through sports and storytelling. Ms. Nascimento is a content producer, and the director of Warriors of a Beautiful Game, a feature documentary as part of a global multi-platform initiative to promote women’s football. The film is due to be released in the summer of 2024.
Gail Marquis
Gail Marquis is an American professional basketball player. She was a member of the USA Olympic Team where she won a Silver Medal in Basketball. It was the first-time women’s basketball was played in the Olympic Games. Ms. Marquis is very familiar “with being first”. At Queens college, she captained the first women’s basketball team – college or pro – to play in Madison Square Garden. She was a member of the first women’s pro basketball team to play in Madison Square Garden and win a professional basketball championship. She was one of the first women to venture abroad to play professional basketball as an American on an International team. A 13-time Hall of Famer, Marquis was the first woman of color and only the 2nd female player inducted into the prestigious New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the Inaugural Class of the Queens College Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 and her 1976 USA Olympic Team was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, Class of 2023. Ms. Marquis is a 12-time recipient of Lifetime Achievement and Business Visionary Awards. She was recognized by the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health with their Inaugural Trailblazer Award recognizing the 40th Anniversary of Title IX – a groundbreaking statute intended to end sexual discrimination in education and athletics. In 2023, she was honored with the Joe Lapchick Character Award by the Lapchick Foundation. Ms. Marquis serves on the boards of the Queens College Foundation to provide more extensive educational opportunities to students and service to faculty. She served as trustee on the board of The Wellesley Centers for Women; the largest social science organization in the U.S. dedicated to gender research. Current board service includes, The Women’s Sports Foundation, The Boys & Girls Club of Hudson County and Hudson County Enterprises among others.
Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a globally-recognized sports diplomacy expert, speaker, and consultant working at the intersection of global sports, communications, and diplomacy. Specializing in Franco-United States relations through sports, she is author of Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA (Bloomsbury, 2023), Views From the Embassy: The Role of the U.S. Diplomatic Community in France, 1914, (U.S. Department of State, 2014), The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010 (Lexington Books, 2013), and her work on global sports has appeared with outlets like TIME, CNN International, The Athletic, The Washington Post, The New Yorker. Outside her consulting practice, she directs the FranceAndUS project and is an Adjunct Instructor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport. A veteran of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian, Krasnoff holds a B.A. from George Washington University; M.A. from NYU; PhD in History from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.