UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON

 

News and Events

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

 

By: Stephanie L. Kirby, PR Intern

 

WILMINGTON, NC – March is Women’s History Month, and the UNC Wilmington Women’s Resource Center is marking the occasion with a series of events planned around the theme, “Women Change the World.”

 

Jenn Adams, campus outreach coordinator for Population Connection in Washington, D.C., will kick off the observance at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 4, in Cameron Hall Auditorium. In the lecture, “Breaking the Chain: How Bush’s Attack on International Family Planning Hurts Us All,” Adams will discuss gender, population control and women’s empowerment from an international perspective.

 

Self-proclaimed “queer activist” Irshad Manji will present, “Taking Opportunity from Oppression,” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 18, in Cameron Hall Auditorium. Manji is author of “An Open Letter to Muslims Worldwide” (2003) and “Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy” (1997). She is also president of VERB, a Canadian TV channel developed to engage young people in issues of global diversity. In her lecture, Manji will address ways that oppression can be used as a tool of individual and community empowerment rather than victimization.

 

Terrill Petri, founder of Women Vision International, will give a lecture titled, “Changing the World One Woman at a Time” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, in Cameron Hall Auditorium. Women Vision International is a nonprofit organization that provides microloans and training for women in developing countries.

 

The UNCW student organization, Women in Leadership, will host the panel discussion, “Women in Activism” at 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 31, in the Warwick Center Stage Café. The featured panelist will be Dawn Peebles, cofounder of Objective: Collective, a nonprofit group based the Chapel Hill that promotes collective living. The UNCW English Department is sponsoring Peebles visit.

 

Women in Leadership will also sponsor a day of volunteerism at locations in the greater Wilmington community from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 22.

 

Women in Leadership is a mentoring program sponsored by the UNCW Center for Leadership Education and Service. The program matches female students with female mentors from among the UNCW faculty and staff and the Wilmington community. Past programs have included a car repair workshop given by a female mechanic, a gender communications workshop and a presentation by local artist, Gayle Tustin.

 

 

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For more information contact Dr. Ervin, director of UNCW’s Women’s Resource Center, at 910/962-3650 or email [email protected]. You may also contact Abigail Riley, founder of Women in Leadership, at 910/962-3877 or email her at [email protected].

UNCW University Relations

601 South College Road, Wilmington NC 28403

(910)962-3861 or email [email protected]