Geena Davis takes a bow at the Women and Leadership conference

Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning actor and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, made a pit stop in Boise on Thursday. Davis was one of the keynote speakers at the Andrus Center’s Women and Leadership event held at Boise State University. More than 1,000 attended the sold-out event. The Jordan Ballroom holds 900, but another room was opened up for the spillover — and spellbound — crowd. Davis spoke for about 45 minutes, covering a wide range of topics from the institute she founded to her Hollywood glamour. She became “passionately interested” in promoting gender parity after noting disparity in 2004 when she began watching movies and television shows with her daughter. “All the heroes were the male actors — and the ratio was way off,” she said. Read More…