Case co-sponsoring “Women’s Economic Empowerment: Global and Local” panel discussion Nov. 20
University’s Center for Women teams up with The Hunger Project and Neighborhood Leadership Institute
November 15, 2004 | For more information: Kimyette Finley 216-368-0521
 Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Women will team up with The Hunger Project (THP) to co-sponsor a “Women’s Economic Empowerment: Global and Local” panel discussion on Saturday, November 20, from 9 a.m. to noon at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave.
The Hunger Project, a global organization working to end world hunger, will send a team to Cleveland on November 19 in conjunction with one of its vice presidents speaking at The City Club of Cleveland.
Dorothy Miller, Ph.D., director of Case’s Center for Women, and Don Slocum of the Neighborhood Leadership Institute (NLI)—a national movement to train and empower local citizens and community leaders to promote positive changes in their neighborhoods and communities—accepted an offer from local THP organizers to widen the scope of the visit to include a discussion on both global and local themes—and with good reason.
According to statistics from the 2000 U.S. Census compiled into a report authored by researchers at Case’s Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change, the median earnings of Cleveland women are 11 percent lower than women nationwide, and more than a quarter of Cleveland’s women live in poverty.
Miller, who also is a visiting associate professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and a poverty scholar, was interested in the project immediately. “Poverty is a women’s issue, and addressing this problem is one of the ways that the Center for Women can engage with community efforts in a significant way.”
Slocum added: “There are similarities and differences between both the conditions of poverty and the potential solutions here at home and around the globe. Bringing experts on these issues from these different perspectives can help us move forward.”
The session will feature several distinguished speakers, plus conversations with teen girls from local schools. The panel will include:
- Moderator Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the department of religion at Chautauqua Institution;
- Claudia Coulton, Ph.D., professor and co-director, Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University;
- Supriya Banavalikar, program associate for South Asia Programs at the global office of The Hunger Project; and
- Julie Candela, director, the SPROUT (Single Parents Reaching Out for Unassisted Tomorrows) Program at Baldwin-Wallace College.
In order to generate positive action among participants, local, national and global organizations are invited to share information about their programs and opportunities as part of the panel discussion.
The program is free and open to the public but registration is encouraged. Call the Center for Women at (216) 368-0985 or e-mail centerforwomen@case.edu.
For further information about the panel, contact Miller at (216) 368-0985.
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