Peace and Human Rights Organizing - Alice Dehle and Marcia Brink
| Date/Time: | Friday, 31 Mar 2006 at 1:15 pm |
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| Location: | Room 236, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Walk the Talk: From Theory to Activism
A Symposium on Feminism & Activism
Friday, March 31, 2006
12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Memorial Union, Iowa State University
This symposium will provide a venue for ISU faculty, staff, and students to interact with each other and with invited feminist activists to focus on how we confront injustice and discrimination. The symposium will include a lunch/plenary session with a keynote speaker discussing diverse forms of activism; breakout sessions focusing on career planning for the non-profit sector, creative justice, and stories of becoming activists; and a plenary panel discussion of local activists.
Schedule of Events
11:30 - Registration and Social time
12:00 - Welcome Address by Susan Carlson, Office of the Provost
Luncheon
Keynote Speaker Nicki Guard. The World I Want to Live In
Ms. Guard is an ISU graduate with an M.S. in Education and Women's Studies.
1:10-2:30 - Breakout Sessions
1. Workshop: Finding a job in the non-profit sector
Room 248, Memorial Union
Nicki Guard, Planned Parenthood Federation
Jeana Gingery, Career Services, ISU
2. Workshop: Teen Dating Violence and Using "Circles" for Balanced and Restorative Justice
Room 244, Memorial Union
Ora Schub, Attorney and Co-Director of the Community Justice for Youth Institute
3. Discussion: Peace and Human Rights Organizing
Room 236, Memorial Union (Tentative)
Marcia Brink, Peace and Justice Activist
Alice Dehle, President of the Linn County Chapter of the UN and President of the Iowa Chapter of Amnesty International
4. Roundtables: Grassroots Activism and Organizing: "Activism is my rent for living on this planet" (Alice Walker)
Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Jessica Brackett, Executive Board of the University of Iowa's LGBTA Alliance and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Voice, a state-wide magazine for LGBTA youth who are "out and proud."
Lois Smidt, Founder and Executive Director of Beyond Welfare, Inc, a grassroots community-based organization dedicated to ending poverty in Story County.
Sylvia Stromm, Executive Director of L.U.N.A. Foundation (Latinas Unidas Para Un Nuevo Amanecer), whose mission is to assist and empower women to achieve goals of emotional, physical, and economic survival so that they may build futures free from violence.
2:40-4:00 - Plenary Session: Local Activism and Advocacy in Practice: Think globally, Act Locally. Cardinal Room
Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, State Representative, Forty-Fifth District
Julia Egli, Physician Assistant/Community and Women's Health Practitioner.
Carlie Tartakov, Multicultural Educator, ISU and Peace and Social Justice Activist
Rosie Amore, Chair, Women's Studies Club, ISU
Meg Brinkman & Ashley Hand, Co-Chairs, FMLA, ISU
Penny Rice, Director, Margaret Sloss Women's Center, ISU
Anna MacDonald, Environmental Activist/Animal Ecology/NREM department, ISU
This conference and luncheon are free; however, pre-register by March 24 at:
http://www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/activi...mepage.htm
Please print and mail the forms to:
Women's Studies Program, 309 Catt Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Ia 50011-1305
This event is sponsored by a grant from the Women's Enrichment Mini-Grant, whose funding is provided by the ISU Foundation as part of the Greater University Fund of Excellence and is also supported by the the Graduate College, Women's Studies Program, the Margaret Sloss Women's Center, The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, and the Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).
If you have any questions please contact Dr. Leslie Bloom at