More than 300 women from the Philadelphia area will gather for this year’s Women’s Way conference “Women, Families & Immigration,” a forum that will explore community strategies that sustain, empower and celebrate immigrant families.

The centerpiece will be the lived experiences of undocumented immigrant women and their families from across the various diasporas that comprise our region’s cultural landscape.

Through the lenses of personal narrative, art and public policy, the program will explore how gender, race and social class shape the experiences of immigrant families. Break-out sessions will focus broadly on three issues areas: Health, Economic & Leadership Development and Education/Youth.

“The Women & Influence Conference provides a free public forum for our constituents, grantees and friends to hear from regional and national experts about the pressing issues affecting women and girls,” said Wendy Voet, executive director of Women’s Way. “By highlighting innovative and participatory solutions to address these issues, the conference embodies our organizational mission to serve as a powerful voice for women.”

The forum will facilitate discussion between activists, academics, artists, media professionals, students, and community members.The closing keynote address will be delivered by Ai-Jen Poo, a 2014 MacArthur “Genius” award winner and one of TIME’s Most Influential People in 2012. A leading organizer for immigrant women workers for nearly 20 years, Poo co-founded Domestic Workers United, an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York that spearheaded the successful passage of the state’s historic Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010.

As Co-director of Caring Across Generations, Poo leads a movement that is inspiring hundreds of thousands of care workers, parents, grandparents, grandchildren and lawmakers to work together to ensure that all people can mature in this country with dignity, independence and choice.

Her speech, titled: “The Future of Care: What We Need For A Changing America,” will speak to her recent book, The Age of Dignity: At the intersection of our aging population, the fraying safety net and opportunities for women and immigrants in the workforce.

The 12th annual Women and Influence Conference will take place at Moore College of Art & Design on Saturday, Feb. 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.