Casey Harden

General Secretary of World YWCA

As the 15th General Secretary of World YWCA, Casey has been driving the realisation of the global YWCA movements’ Goal 2035 – 100 million young women transforming power structures – and tackling exciting operational, governance, and partnership opportunities to ensure the vitality and relevancy of YWCA in the 21st century. She demonstrates commitment to transparency, authenticity and inclusion, and a closely held aspiration that World YWCA be accountable to the leaders of the YWCA global movement. For 25 years with YWCA, in varied executive and leadership positions, she has shown how to harness a movement that is rich and wide-reaching in its diversity, toward a common goal for collective impact. Casey serves on the board of ACT Alliance and the Global Youth Mobilization, as a chair of the Multi-Faith Advisory Council to the UN Interagency Task Force on Religion and Development, as an International Gender Champion of Geneva, and as a #ThursdaysinBlack ambassador.

Welcome To Washington D.C.

National Conference isn’t about YWCA USA, it’s about our broad network of local YWCA associations that implement the work at the local level for women, families, and people of color every day. It’s a time for our Local Associations to share, as a community of learning, and to walk away inspired by each other and the work of the YWCA family. It is a time for the YWCA movement, united as One YWCA, to share and celebrate our history, our mission and impact, planning for the work ahead, and continuing to write our YWCA story.