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the News Archive - Year:
November 19, 2004 School Zone: By Cynthia Hodnett The UWGB students will participate in Engaging Women: Changing the Face
of Leadership Through Civic Involvement, the ninth annual United Council
Women's Leadership Conference. The purpose is to increase diversity and
opportunity in public offices and promote leadership roles for women in
society.
The UWGB students planned logistics for the conference, including promotions
and decorations. To pay for the conference, they raised about $14,000
from local businesses and campus groups.
"This is finally the opportunity for us to show off our campus," said
Rachel Abhold, a 22-year-old senior and a conference organizer. "We have
tremendous support from the university, from the professors, the staff
and administration. It was really exciting to see people stand behind
this conference."
The conference will continue through Saturday and will feature about
50 different workshops on topics including women and the media, body image,
eco-feminism and reproductive rights.
Abhold and other UWGB students including Becky Pasterski, Kim Biedermann
and Theresa Okokon will present several workshops.
Guest speakers at the conference will include Wisconsin Supreme Court
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley; Kalpana Krishnamurthy, director of the Third
Wave Foundation, an organization supporting women ages 15 to 30 who are
working for gender, racial, social and economic justice; and Angela Russell,
policy director for Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton. Wisconsin poet laureate and
UWGB faculty member Denise Sweet also will speak.
"The conference touches on a lot of different issues. It touches on
racism, homophobia, the whole spectrum," said Pasterski, a 22-year-old
senior and another event organizer.
"I'm hoping that they go to workshops that they find meaningful in their
own lives. They will come and they will have fun but they will learn about
things they can use in the future."
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