This was originally posted on July 13, 2010 on the AAUW Jefferson County Branch (Watertown, New York) Blog and is re-posted here by permission. Several Jefferson County Branch members attended the 2010 AAUW-NYS Summer Leadership Conference. It was held July 9 through 11 on the campus of Cazenovia College. The two day leadership conference opened with [...]
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AAUW-NYS Summer Leadership Conference
Posted in Educational Programs, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, tagged BEADS, Cazenovia College, Debby Rooney, Eileen Hartmann, Half the Sky, leadership, Maria Ellis on July 16, 2010, | 1 Comment »
International Women’s Day Celebrated with Half the Sky Live!
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, AAUW, Angelique Kidjo, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, Helene Gayle, India.Arie, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, maternal mortality, Michael Franti, Nicholas Kristof, Rachel Mayanja, Sex Discrimination, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet on March 11, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
This past Thursday, I was given the opportunity to represent AAUW and celebrate International Women’s Day with my peers in a packed theater for a showing of CARE’s Half the Sky Live. While the rest of the building was filled with posters for Jennifer Lopez’s new romantic comedy and Tim Burton’s recent take on yet [...]
Don’t Miss Half the Sky Live
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, AAUW, AAUW members, Blog for IWD, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, National Women's History Month, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet, Women's History Month on March 4, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This past Christmas, my sister — with just a bit of hinting on my part — gave me the best-selling book, Half the Sky, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And while I am passionate about women’s development (and was the one who blatantly asked for the book), with work, life, visitors, [...]
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