Screams Before Silence | Film Screening & Discussion with Sheryl Sandberg
Screams Before Silence | Film Screening & Discussion with Sheryl Sandberg
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM (Pacific)
Location available following registration.
This is an in-person event for Stanford affiliates only. Registration is required to attend.
Only those with an active Stanford ID may attend in person.
Speaker: Sheryl Sandberg, founder of LeanIn.org
Moderators: Dr. Ayelet Goshen, Rabbi Idit Solomon, and Amichai Magen
On Tuesday, November 19, join the Israel Studies program at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and Hillel at Stanford for a private screening of Screams Before Silence, a documentary film about the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
In this 60-minute, presenter-led documentary film, Sheryl Sandberg, founder of LeanIn.org, interviews multiple eyewitnesses, released hostages, first responders, medical and forensic experts, and survivors of the Hamas massacres.
Following the screening, Sheryl Sandberg will join Dr. Ayelet Goshen, a clinical psychologist, author, and 2024-25 Stanford Taube Center for Jewish Studies Lecturer and artist-in-residence, in a discussion about the film and her experience as an American Jewish woman after October 7. Rabbi Idit Solomon, Interim Assistant Director of Hillel at Stanford, will moderate a Q&A, and Amichai Magen, a Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies at FSI, will offer opening remarks.
Trigger Warning: Video contains sensitive subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
SPEAKERS
Sheryl Sandberg is the founder and chair of the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to build a more equal and resilient world through three key initiatives: Lean In, Option B, and the Dave Goldberg Scholarship Program. Launched in 2013, Lean In supports a global community of over 100,000 Lean In Circles in 183 countries.
Sheryl is also the co-founder of Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners (SBVP), an early stage venture fund deploying private capital to fund innovation across consumer, enterprise, climate, and healthcare technology. Sheryl previously served as chief operating officer at Meta for fourteen years, during which the company grew from $150 million to over $110 billion in annual revenue and implemented industry-defining benefits and programs to make the workplace more inclusive.
Before joining the company then called Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, chief of staff for the U.S. Treasury Department under President Clinton, a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank. She serves on the boards of the Bay Football Club and Terradot.
Sheryl is the best-selling author of three books: Lean In, Lean In for Graduates, and Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, which she co-authored with Wharton professor Adam Grant.
She received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School.
Sheryl lives in Menlo Park, California, with her husband and their five children.
Dr. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is a practicing clinical psychologist, has been a news editor on Israel’s leading newspaper, and has worked for the Israeli civil rights movement. One Night, Markovitch, her first novel, won the Sapir Prize for best debut. Her novel Waking Lions was a New York Times Book of the Year and won the Wingate Prize, and her novel Liar was Editor’s Choice in People magazine. Her most recent novel, The Wolf Hunt, is set in Palo Alto and explores the racial and religious fault lines of a local community from the perspective of an Israeli expat. She joins the Taube Center as a lecturer and artist-in-residence for the Autumn 2024 quarter.
Rabbi Idit Solomon is the Interim Associate Director of Hillel at Stanford. She is the founder and CEO of Hasidah, a Jewish infertility support non-profit. She previously served as the Vice President of the Columbus Jewish Federation, leading their Department of Education and Jewish Community Relations Committee, including oversight of their Holocaust Education program. She is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow and a graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality's Clergy Leadership program.
Amichai Magen is a Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. In Israel, he is a Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor), Head of the MA Program in Diplomacy & Conflict Studies, and Director of the Program on Democratic Resilience and Development (PDRD) at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University. His research and teaching interests address democracy, the rule of law, liberal orders, risk, and political violence.
Magen received the Yitzhak Rabin Fulbright Award (2003), served as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2016 he was named Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy, an award that recognizes outstanding thought-leaders around the world. Between 2018 and 2022, he was the Principal Investigator in two European Union Horizon 2020 research consortia, EU-LISTCO and RECONNECT. Amichai Magen served on the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and is a Board Member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) and the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal (ICDR). In 2023, he joined the Freeman Spogli Institute as its inaugural Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies.