First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom leads Gender Equity Summit on technology and well-being - California State Portal | CA.gov

What you need to know: First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, in patronage of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, convened global scientists, academicians, doctors, faith leaders, state officials, and advocates for a two-day summit exploring opportunities to advance social connection and belonging in a time of uncertainty and division. VATICAN CITY – First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, in patronage of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), co-hosted a two-day international summit at the historic Casina Pio IV at the Vatican last week. The summit brought together cross-sector leaders to confront the growing global crisis of social disconnection, advance a shared agenda to treat social health with the same urgency as physical and mental health, and share all of the programs that California and other communities across the world have modeled to answer this call.

Saturday evenings spent wandering the aisles of a video rental store, searching for the perfect movie to accompany a cosy night in was a familiar ritual for generations of families from the mid-70s through to the early 2010s. These days, the ritual looks a little different, replaced by endless scrolling through streaming services, only to find something most in the room will watch with one eye, the other fixed on their phone.