What are the Student-Led Plenary Sessions and how can I lead one?
These sessions are a chance for members of the Student Planning Committee (SPC) to pursue an issue that they are particularly passionate about and that is not covered by other conference programming. Members of the SPC are located close to the host campus (this year, the Bay Area) and are heavily involved in the planning and outreach for the conference. The sessions pull together local experts on a particular topic — there might be four local experts on, say, midwifery. These experts then join together for a panel discussion, moderated by the student who organized the session and attended by interested participants. (I am a student in the Bay Area who is interested in participating in the activities of the SPC.
