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SUMMARY:Global Changemakers: International Women's Day Celebration
DESCRIPTION:International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social\, economic\, cultural and political achievements of women.\nOn April 2\, we celebrate global changemakers – women pressing for progress at the edge of today’s most prominent global movements.\nFeaturing a panel of distinguished women: \nBayartsetseg Jigmiddash has held senior government positions in the justice sector and has been at the forefront of Mongolia’s far-reaching reform initiatives. Currently\, she is CEO and Founding Director of Veritas Consulting. From 2012 to 2016\, Jigmiddash served as Secretary of State of the Ministry of Justice of Mongolia\, becoming the first woman appointed in this position. Under her leadership\, the legal policy on gender-based violence has been significantly improved\, including criminalization of domestic violence. Prior to this top civil service post\, she served as legal advisor to the president of Mongolia\, and has been involved in the judicial reform as well as abolishment of death penalty in Mongolia. She has extensive civil society experience and pioneered an array of initiatives to promote human rights and access to justice.\nStephenie Foster is a Partner in Smash Strategies and a former Senior Advisor and Counselor to the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues at the U.S Department of State. As a member of the leadership team\, she coordinated\, managed and implemented a wide range of policies and programs\, including the women\, peace and security initiative\, women’s political participation and women’s economic empowerment. At the State Department\, Ms. Foster represented the United States in various multilateral and bilateral forums. She served at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, focusing on women and civil society\, travelling extensively throughout the country to work with individuals and organizations advancing the role of women in Afghan society. Ms. Foster served as Chief of Staff to two United States Senators\, Barbara Mikulski and Christopher Dodd. \nJosepha M. N. Musabyemariya is the United States Rwandan Community Abroad (USRCA) Commissioner for Gender and Social Affairs. She also is President of Rwandan Community Abroad (RCA) in Maryland\, District of Columbia and Virginia (DMV). She has more than 25 years of experience in handling special projects and initiatives designed to positively impact lives of people in her home country of Rwanda\,  the communities in and outside DMV and around the globe. She works for the African Union in the U.S.  In this office\, she was among the handful of individuals charged with setting up the African Union office in Washington DC which was just prior to the arrival and assumption of duties of the first Permanent Representative in 2006. Josepha’s passion lies in dealing with all issues concerning gender and women empowerment. \n5:00pm | Reception\n6:00pm | Event followed by opportunity for audience Q&A\nSponsored By: \nPresented By: \nIn Partnership With
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/global-changemakers-international-womens-day-celebration-2/
LOCATION:University of Saint Joseph\, Crystal Room\, 1678 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117\, United States
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SUMMARY:Global Fluency Training
DESCRIPTION:Global Fluency Training provides business professionals and educators with the tools they need to serve an ever-growing multicultural community. Investing in Global Fluency Training is a meaningful professional development opportunity that is crucial to successfully serve increasingly diverse schools and local communities. In today’s global community\, it is vital to be able to interact effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds in order to build relationships with students\, colleagues\, clients\, and organizations.\nWho Should Attend: \nEducators with diverse student populations\nELL Teachers\nSchool Administrators\nStudent support and engagement staff (e.g. school nurses\, guidance counselors\, athletic coaches)\nEducation Policy Leaders\nProfessionals who interact with individuals and groups of people with very different cultural backgrounds\nThose who travel to various countries building business relationships\nHuman Resources\, Talent Management and Recruiting Professionals \nSession Content: \nDefine and understand culture and how it affects student learning\nExplore the “other” and the value of varied perspectives in your school community\nIdentify the challenges and opportunities of a culturally diverse classroom environment\nExplore cultural dimensions in selected case study cultures\nDevelop skills to communicate cross-culturally with students and parents\nLearn how to leverage the global landscape of your classroom and school community \nSponsored By: \nIn Partnership With:
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/global-fluency-training/
LOCATION:Goodwin College\, 1 Riverside DrRoom 311\, East Hartford\, CT\, 06118\, US
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SUMMARY:City of Asylum: Writers in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Journalists\, writers\, and political commentators are under siege in many parts of the world. With freedoms of speech and press limited\, nonexistent\, or under attack from various regimes and administrations\, many writers are forced from their countries in fear for their lives. \nJoin the University of Saint Joseph and the World Affairs Council of CT  for an intimate discussion with two of the world’s most prominent writers from Syria and Bangladesh on the political power structures they confronted\, the meaning of freedom of the press\, and the world-renowned works which ultimately forced them into exile. \nA partnership of the University of Saint Joseph and the World Affairs Council of CT. \nEvent: 6:00pm – 7:15pm \nReception and opportunity for book sale and signing to follow.  \n  \nRSVP Here \n  \nPanelists Include: \nOsama Alomar (Syria) is one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today\, and a prominent practitioner of the Arabic al-qisa al-qasira jiddan\, the “very short story.” He is the author of Fullblood Arabian in English\, and three collections of short stories and a volume of poetry in Arabic. Alomar’s first full-length collection of stories\, The Teeth of the Comb\, will be published by New Directions in April 2017. His short stories have been published by Newyorker.com\, Noon\, Conjunctions.com\, The Coffin Factory\, Electric Literature\, and The Literary Review. He also performs as a musician. Osama Alomar travels with his translator\, Christian Collins. \nTuhin Das (Bangladesh) is a poet\, activist\, political columnist\, short story writer and essayist. He was born and raised in Barisal\, Bangladesh. He is the author of seven poetry books in his native language (Bengali). He was involved in the Little Magazine Movement and edited a few literary magazines; he’s had contemporary poetry criticism articles\, short stories and political columns published in the last fifteen years in Bangladesh. Since 2013\, he has been the target of fundamentalist militant groups who have murdered secular writers and activists in Bangladesh. Instead of protecting him\, the police collected and examined his writings for anti-Islamist statements to use against him. To save his own life\, he had no choice but to go into hiding and find a way out of Bangladesh. He left his country in April 2016. Tuhin Das is now the current ICORN writer-in-residence of City of Asylum in Pittsburgh. \n  \nNathan Deron is the production coordinator at City of Asylum. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science\, sociology\, and legal studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015. That same year he worked as an editorial intern for City of Asylum’s online magazine\, Sampsonia Way\, before becoming a part of the City of Asylum staff. In his current role\, Nathan oversees the production of City of Asylum’s 150 events annually\, as well as the maintenance of City of Asylum’s new cultural center\, Alphabet City. \n  \nAbout City of Asylum \nCity of Asylum is an organization that provides sanctuary to endangered literary writers. In 1993\, in response to a growing incidence of attacks on writers and specifically writer assassinations in Algeria\, the International Parliament of Writers was formed. At the behest of the IPW\, governments in several European cities agreed to provide one to two years of support for endangered writers in exile. These were called “Cities of Asylum\,” and they aimed to protect not only freedom of speech and freedom of publication but also the physical safety of writers. There are now asylums in Las Vegas\, Ithaca\, and Pittsburg. Today\, City of Asylum continues to provide sanctuary to endangered literary writers\, so that they can continue to write and their voices are not silenced.
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LOCATION:University of Saint Joseph\, The Carol Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities 1678 Asylum Ave\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117\, US
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SUMMARY:CTWAC MUN Delegate Debate Workshop: Session 3
DESCRIPTION:Sharpen your Model UN debate skills with this workshop series from the World Affairs Council of Connecticut. Come and hone your skills while engaging in debate with your peers on the latest global issues.\nA fun and interactive way to enhance your skills for the 2018 CTWAC MUN Conference! \nOpen to high school students. Healthy snacks will be provided. \nFee waivers are available. Contact Eve Pech for more information at epech@ctwac.org or call (860) 241-6118.
URL:https://ctwac.org/event/ctwac-mun-delegate-debate-workshop-session-3/
LOCATION:Connecticut Public Broadcasting Building\, 1049 Asylum Avenue\, Hartford\, CT\, 06105\, US
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