Congratulations to Graduate Women Manawatu and Graduate Women New Zealand - GWNZ for organising a successful AGM. Our GWO committee enjoyed networking with our peers and engaging in such interesting conversation. Thank you to Phoebe Rose Osborne for presenting on the GW Youth panel and Barbara Benson who submitted and spoke to our GWO remits. Thank you to members who attended online, and submitted Proxy votes. I am delighted to have been appointed as the Graduate Women New Zealand President and that two GWO remits were passed. Details of the AGM will be included in our GWO newsletter to be released this week.

23rd September 2025 Suffrage Lecture, Finding hope in challenging times. GWO are proud sponsors of the Suffrage Lectures.

The 2025 Suffrage Lecture will be presented by Teresa Chan – lawyer, immigrant, president of the Otago & Southland Chinese Association. Teresa will present on ‘Finding Hope in Challenging Times’

Kate is an accomplished leader with decades of service in the New Zealand Army. Having led successfully at the strategic and operational levels, she understands the demands on public sector leaders and, having experienced the highs and the lows, she gets the very real struggle to balance all elements of life.

Graduate Women Otago were honored to have Kate as our July Winter Guest Speaker 2025

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'Hello' and 'welcome' to our July 2025 newsletter. Exciting news regarding the Graduate Women International Triennium Conference in Zambia plus GWO annual memberships are open for renewal

Our GWO May Branch Meeting was replaced with presentations from four GWO members who attended the recent CSW69 conference in New York. Presenters shared their key takeaways from the conference and insights for the impending CSW70 conference. Click the June Newsletter link for more information

GWO are excited to announce our very own Dr Linda Robertson as our guest speaker. Dr Linda will share her experiences and insights from writing her book ‘Professional Reasoning in Healthcare.’

'Hello' and 'welcome' to our March 2025 Newsletter. The year has started off with a very successful International Women's Day Breakfast co-hosted between GWO and Otago University Staff Women's Caucus.

GWO were delighted to host five travel awardees as our guest speakers, presenting on a range of interesting research topics. Presenter’s shared their experiences in attending the conferences, their presentation notes and key learnings.

GWO are proud to announce our newly appointed President and Vice President. Come along and meet our GWO committee at our November branch meeting.