Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy
March 8, 2018 - 8:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm
This daylong symposium addresses all aspects of lives of women of African descent. Cosponsored by Isuroon. Keynote address by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Presenters:
- Bruce Corrie, City of St. Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development
- Judge LaJune Lange
- Kenya McKnight, Black Women’s Wealth Alliance
- Ikram Koliso, Mayor Melvin Carter’s Office
- Toni Carter, Ramsey County commissioner
- Antonia Apolinario-Wilcoxon, MN Department of Human Services
- Lynn Nyamwaya, The African Nurses Network Inc.
- Zenzele Isoke, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
- Anitra Cottledge, Women’s Center, University of Minnesota
- Maryan Abinur, Hope Community
- Fata Acquoi, African Immigrant Services
- Brittany Lewis, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota
- Fartun Welli, Isuroon
- Dean Laura Bloomberg, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
- Simone Gbolo, Public Policy and International Affairs Program