The Metro NY Chapter, USNC UN Women will host a screening and panel for “The Mask You Live In” – a documentary exploring the definition of masculinity - with guest speakers including world-renowned photographer, producer, and philanthropist Nigel Barker, former NFL player and inclusion consultant Wade Davis, founder of the Better Man Conference Ray Arata,former NFL player and co-founder of the InSideOut Initiative, Joe Ehrmann, and moderated by award-winning activist and author Marianne Schnall.

About the Film

"The Mask You Live In" explores how our culture's narrow definition of masculinity is harming boys, men, and society at large and unveils what we can do about it. View the trailer here. Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom (Miss Representation), founder and CEO of The Representation Project.

About the Panel

Nigel Barker is an internationally renowned photographer who served 17 seasons as photographer and judge on the hit TV show, America’s Next Top Model, and hosted Oxygen Network’s The Face alongside Naomi Campbell. Nigel was awarded the “Film Heals” Award for Humanitarianism for Dreams Are Not Forgotten. He is a UN Women HeForShe spokesperson.

Former NFL player Wade Davis is a thought leader, writer, public speaker, and educator on gender, race, and orientation equality. Wade is the NFL’s first LGBT inclusion consultant and currently consults for numerous professional sports leagues on issues at the intersection of sexism, racism, and homophobia. Wade creates league-wide inclusive leadership strategies, inclusion-training sessions for coaches and players, and national engagement initiatives.

Joe Ehrmann was honored to have been asked to participate in this documentary. He is a co-founder of the NFL Foundation-funded InSideOut Initiative aimed at implementing education-based athletics that are co-curricular, character-based and led by transformational coaching. Joe's revolutionary concepts of transformational coaching are the subject of his book, InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives. Joe played in the NFL for thirteen years.

Ray Arata is the founder of Better Man Conference, a one-day conference on engaging men in the conversation of inclusionary leadership for women and minorities. Ray has delivered engaging talks to audiences featuring corporate leadership from organizations such as Visa, Microsoft, eBay, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Kaiser Permanente, Chevron, and GoDaddy.

Moderator Marianne Schnall is the author of “What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?” She has interviewed notable figures such as Madeleine Albright, President Jimmy Carter, Arianna Huffington, Desmond Tutu, Oprah Winfrey, Melinda Gates, Jane Fonda and Maya Angelou. She is the founder of the What Will It Take Movement, a social engagement platform inspiring women to lead.

In partnership with UN Women's HeForShe campaign and the Better Man Conference. Special thanks to A+E for hosting this event.