The Women Who Build Summit - Celebrate, connect, and inspire.

2023 Women Who Build Summit

Confident, Powerful, Fearless

April 26-27, 2023 at UMass Amherst

Confident, Powerful, Fearless

The Women Who Build Summit celebrates an inspiring day of educational presentations, motivational stories, confidence-boosting interactions, and networking opportunities. The two-day conference includes keynotes, breakout sessions, expert panel discussions, and focused workshops, with presentations by regional, national, and international speakers, all designed to spark interactions between attendees. The event brings together women and men to celebrate, to explore, to connect, to share, and to inspire the innovators and glass-ceiling breakers of tomorrow.

“A day of empowerment and confirmation of women in a field where women are in the minority.”

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“Best program I have attended in a long time - inspiring and motivating.”

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“Great for women especially starting out in the field to make contacts and know they are not alone.”

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Introducing June Millington

Pioneer for women in Rock, guitarist singer-songwriter/record producer June Millington was born and raised in the Philippines to a mixed-race couple just after WWII. She moved with her family Sacramento, CA at thirteen years old where she and her sister Jean, outsiders from birth, managed to succeed in forming the first all-girl band to be signed to a major record label (Warners), release entire albums, tour internationally and serve notice that women could rock as well and as hard as men.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the prejudice and obstacles Millington has met along the way, she has been a trailblazer for women in music. Among her many accomplishments, Millington co-founded the Institute for the Musical Arts, a nonprofit with a mission to support women and girls in the field of music and music-related business; and written her autobiography ("Land of a Thousand Bridges: Island Girl in a Rock in Roll World"). Millington will share the lessons learned and the tools gathered during her lifelong journey.