Upcoming Events

Read more about our speakers, officer nominee, and Young People’s Literature Award recipient below.

10:30 a.m. – Public Policy in 1st Quarter 2025 – Meghan Kissell

AAUW Senior Director, Policy and Membership Advocacy

The biographical information about Meghan Kissell from the AAUW.org website is copied below for your reference.

Meghan Kissell is the Senior Director of Policy and Member Advocacy at the American Association of University Women (AAUW). She leads AAUW’s non-partisan and mission-driven public policy at the federal level and supports the grassroots advocacy work of AAUW’s membership network.

Meghan has more than 20 years of nonprofit policy and issue developing and implementing targeted social impact strategies designed to engage key stakeholders and policy makers to advocate for positive policy outcomes.

Prior to joining AAUW, Meghan worked on state and local health policy with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and led efforts to expand LGBTQ equality in the Deep South with the Human Rights Campaign. She also worked for the Conservation Lands Foundation to help lead local and national campaigns in the Western United States resulting in the successful protection of more than 5 million acres of public land. She was also previously AAUW’s Field Director, supporting local advocacy engagement and volunteer get out the vote efforts.

Meghan has a Master’s degree in Social Work with a focus on community organizing from Howard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.

“Artificial Intelligence” AAUW Pennsylvania Board Member and 2026 Atlantic Regional Conference Co-Chair

Keynote Speaker Topic Desciption – Generative AI: The Evolution of Machine Learning and Why It Matters

This discussion will review what artificial intelligence is, how it can impact women and girls, the way it will force an evolution of advocacy, and how we may need to renew our efforts. AI already has raised the level of impact to advocacy, potential for wrongdoing, and provided new ways to tackle old problems. Learn how AI has opened our world into more than quick answers, summaries, information, and development of documentation.

Keynote Speaker Biographical Information

Ajla Glavasevic Laussegger serves as Deputy General Counsel & Global Data Privacy Officer of a global chemical manufacturing company in Conshohocken, PA, Quaker Houghton. There, she leads the Data Privacy organization, advises on business matters, drafts and reviews contracts, and provides legal support and leadership in litigation, regulatory matters, corporate restructuring, labor and employment matters, corporate compliance, crisis management, corporate governance, artificial intelligence, investigations, mergers and acquisitions, environmental matters, and day-to-day business needs of the organization.  Prior to her work at Quaker Houghton, Ajla was an Associate at a general practice firm, where much of her work focused on corporate clients, as well as litigation, immigration matters, labor and employment, and criminal defense.  Ajla received her J.D. at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, concentrating on Financial Analysis from the University at Buffalo, where she also competed as a D1 heptathlete on a national level. Ajla is a former a member of the USA Women’s Bobsled Team.

Ajla serves on the board of AAUW PA as the Diversity Officer, and previously served as the Secretary.  Ajla’s family immigrated from Bosnia to the United States under refugee status in 1995 and she’s married to an Austrian National. Ajla is a mother to a 5-year-old son, Julius, and a 3.5-year-old daughter, Philippa.