Panel examines women and politics
A panel on “Women and Politics” will examine how issues such as health care, war and the environment – traditionally important to women – could shape the presidential election on Wednesday, April 16 from 4-5:30 p.m. in 165 Campus Center.
Panelists Michael E. Begay, associate professor of Public Health; Dayo F. Gore, assistant professor of Women’s Studies; and Marianne Winters, director of Everywoman’s Center, will share their perspectives on topics including political involvement, disenfranchised voters and women’s influences on the election cycle; a question-and-answer session will follow.
Begay, a researcher and educator focused on the politics of public health, joined the School of Public Health and Health Sciences in 1994. His work has been funded by groups including the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health, and he has been published in a number of national health journals.
Gore’s areas of interest include African-American history and 20th century U.S. political and cultural activism. She is currently at work on a manuscript titled “The Work of Radicals: Black Women’s Political Thought and Activism in the 1950s,” and is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology “Want to Start a Revolution: Women and the Black Freedom Struggle.”
Winters has more than two decades of experience in the movement to end violence against women. An expert on issues including confidentiality of counselor communications, diversity and inclusivity, theory of rape crisis work, substance abuse and mental health, her work has been recognized with national and state-level awards.
The event is co-sponsored by the Women’s Health Project of University Health Services (UHS) and the Women’s Studies Program.
The Women’s Health Project, a student group sponsored by the UHS Health Education Department, works to empower women through positive choices. For more information, call 577-5181.
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April 6, 2008.
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