17th Annual Lunch & Awards Presentation
BU Women’s Guild is delighted to invite you to the 17th Annual Lunch & Awards Presentation celebrating the 2022 Award Winners with keynote address
“WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: World’s Most Powerful Force for Change”
Jin In, Assistant Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion
Office of the President, Boston University
Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 12 – 2 pm
Metcalf Trustee Center, 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor
Free to all BUWG & WOCC members, Fisk House residents, and other members of the BU staff and faculty community.
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Keynote Speech by Jin In
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Speaker Biography
Jin In
Bringing national and global experience in creating systemic change to Boston University, Jin In is the Assistant Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. As an integral member of the senior management team, Jin assists the Senior Diversity Officer in the University’s Antiracism Working Group and Community Safety Advisory Group. She also serves as the central resource for diversity and inclusion data across the University.
Eastern born, western bred, Jin’s commitment to equity and inclusion stems from her personal story. Born into one of the wealthiest families — but in an underdeveloped country with no rights or protection for girls — poverty became her new reality at seven months when her father unexpectedly died. Today’s 11th largest world economy, South Korea, was then entrenched in systemic and systematic inequity and discrimination against women. Her mother immigrated them to the United States, and there, Jin met her childhood mentor who taught her — through community service and social justice action — that an eight-year-old immigrant from a poor country, raised by a widow, can change the world.
Jin’s childhood training in service and collective action for social change have become her ethos, and two crises have shaped her career path: September 11 and January 6 attacks. After 9/11, she moved to D.C. to work for the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health – the first federal agency dedicated to gender equality policy and program. After 1/6, she moved to Boston to join BU’s first Office of the Senior Diversity Officer.
With expertise in empowerment and the next generation of female changemakers, Jin has worked with both Democratic and Republican administrations, Departments of State, Defense and Homeland Security, UN Agencies, global and grassroots organizations in 145 countries, serving over 10 million girls, particularly in world’s poorest communities. She also founded For Girls GLocal Leadership (4GGL), collecting the first-ever global data on young women’s empowerment to drive equality and social change.
Jin received a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. She is also the youngest recipient of the Spirit of Trinity University Alumni Award for extraordinary service to global and local communities. In her free time, Jin enjoys baking, salsa dancing, and sky diving.
Read more in the “3 Questions with Jin In” post.