{"id":14191,"date":"2015-04-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/04\/23\/baps-swaminarayan-mandir-hosts-women-s-conference\/"},"modified":"2015-04-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T12:00:00","slug":"baps-swaminarayan-mandir-hosts-women-s-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/04\/23\/baps-swaminarayan-mandir-hosts-women-s-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir Hosts Women&#8217;s Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiawest.com\/news\/global_indian\/baps-swaminarayan-mandir-hosts-women-s-conference\/article_e1a78ec2-d31b-11e4-bda1-83c49d2d9016.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHINO HILLS, CALIFORNIA, April 21, 2015 (India West): This year, BAPS hosted its ninth annual Women&#8217;s Conference that recently took place at 11 centers across North America to inspire Indian American women to pursue leadership positions while making a commitment to take other women along with them. The conference, themed &#8220;Moving Forward,&#8221; focused on creating positive change that starts from within. On March 14, over 500 women gathered at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir here to participate in the annual conference. &#8216;Moving Forward&#8217; covered three key concepts: compassion, forgiveness, and perseverance. <\/p>\n<p>The conference speeches began with keynote speaker Aparna Hande, honored as the 56th Assembly District &#8220;Woman of the Year&#8221; in 2012 by Assembly member Tony Mendoza. She praised the BAPS community of women, saying, &#8220;These women are driven by compassion and forgiveness to work together towards common solutions.&#8221; Among the honored guests in attendance were Manisha Sulakhe, an accomplished chemist, dancer, and active community leader; Depti Patel, an experienced IT professional; Alka Patel, civil engineer, businesswoman, and president of UFICA; and Anu Jain, director, Operations and Outreach, at SAHARA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHINO HILLS, CALIFORNIA, April 21, 2015 (India West): This year, BAPS hosted its ninth annual Women&#8217;s Conference that recently,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}