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WomenNC Scholars at NCSU Gender & Equity Research Symposium – April 9, 2020

Thursday, April 9th at 2:30pm WNC scholars will present at the NCSU Gender & Equity Ressearch Symposium. Join us and hear about the work they have done in NC and what they have learned! The symposium bridges the interdisciplinary nature of gender and equity work by putting social justice and equity research into action. The Gender & Equity Research Symposium was created to spotlight research that promotes a more equitable and justice-oriented society. The symposium bridges the …

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WomenNC Scholars at the Durham Women’s Commission – March 23, 2020

Monday, March 23rd at 6:00pm Bridget Pittman-Blackwell, Leticia Ross, Jackie Lanning, Isa van der Drift and Samia Noor have been invited to present their work at the Durham Women's Commission's March meeting. The Durham Women's Commission strives to educate the community and advise the Durham County Board of Commissioners as necessary on issues relating to the changing social and economic conditions of women in the County. Location: Human Services Building 2nd Floor Conference Room 414 …

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SAVE THE DATE! NCSU’s Gender and Equity Research Symposium: April 9, 2020

WNC scholars will present in Talley Student Union after they return from New York — hear about the work they have done in NC and what they have learned from their global colleagues that they collaborated with during their week in NY at Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64). Thursday, April 9 at 2:30pm Learn more... …

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Our Voices, Our Bodies, Our Stories: Tools for Radical Transformation

Sonya Renee Taylor and The Body is Not An Apology movement believes that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make peace with the body, our own and others. Join Sonya Renee Taylor to learn how information dissemination, personal and social transformation projects, and community building fosters global, radical, unapologetic self-love that translates to radical human love and action in service toward a more inclusive, just, equitable and …

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Workshop on Advocacy to Address Gender Disparities

WomenNC scholars from UNC-CH, Duke, NC State and NC Central participated in the third of a series of workshops in their Juanita M. Bryant CSW Leadership Training Program on advocacy. Scholars learned strategies for effective advocacy and got paired up with advocates with subject matter expertise in their areas of research to promote tangible and practical solutions to address gender disparities. Topics of research included: Enhancing health outcomes of pregnant women and their children …

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11th Annual Local to Global Forum, March 4

We invite you to our 11th Annual Local to Global Forum - Women in North Carolina: Health and Wellness Wednesday, March 4 - 7:00 PM RTI International Horizon Auditorium 3040 East Cornwallis Road Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709 Join WomenNC's scholars from Duke, UNC-CH, NCSU, and NCCU with their mentors from RTI's Global Gender Center as they present their research on gender disparities affecting women's health and wellness in North Carolina. Join us as we send the scholars off to …

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