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Women’s Leadership Conference celebrates, honors ‘Her Story’ |
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
by ASHLEY BENNERS
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
This year, the Women’s Leadership Conference aims to acknowledge, celebrate and honor “Her Story” - the theme of this year’s annual event.
Held March 1 from noon - 6 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union, the conference is divided into four tracks, each following the “Her Story” theme.
Registration costs $7 until Feb. 22 and $10 from Feb. 23 to the day of the event.
Forms are available in the Lee H. McCaskey Center for Student
Involvement and Leadership office on the 2nd floor of the student union.
Participants in the conference will attend breakout sessions throughout
the day where they can choose from three to four different programs
belonging to one of the four tracks.
The four conference tracks are “My Story,” “Her Story,” “Our Story,” and “Their Story.”
“My Story” focuses on personalized stories. “Her Story” explores
stories of women in other cultures. “Our Story” is about relationships
and organizations, women’s stories that can be applied universally.
“Their Story” concentrates on women in history.
Kinyata S. Adams, the assistant director for student involvement and
leadership, is currently serving her second consecutive year on the
conference’s planning committee.
“As a committee member, I feel a great sense of self-satisfaction to be
a part of this experience [and] being able to celebrate, educate, and
acknowledge stories of women and to work with students and colleagues
to put on such an important event on campus,” Adams said.
The planning committee is still accepting program proposals for the different break out sessions, she said.
Despite its name, the Women’s Leadership Conference is open to everyone, Adams said.
“Guys have mothers, sisters, grandmothers, and girlfriends, too, so we definitely want to include them,” she said.
In addition to the breakout sessions, which make up the bulk of the
event, the conference will also include dinner, the opportunity to win
door prizes, and feature keynote speaker Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner.
Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, the executive director of the Matilda Joslyn
Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, is one of the first women to
receive a doctorate for work in women’s studies in the United States at
the University of California at Santa Cruz, according to nyhistory.com.
She is also the founder of one of the country’s first women’s studies programs at California State University at Sacramento.
Roesch Wagner appeared as a historian in the PBS special “One Woman,
One Vote” and has been interviewed several times on National Public
Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Democracy Now,” according to
nyhistory.com
The conference will also honor women in the community and on campus
with “Women of Influence Awards,” the winners to be announced at the
conference.
A student, staff, faculty, and community member are to be recipients of the award.
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