[Vcsa-announcements] Meet a woman who changed history!

[Adrienne Sims]

[WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER AND SPONSORS PRESENT: Women in Leadership Series. Learn from women who have made a mark in the world.Then go make your own.]<http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=3A5C83&e=FABE8&c=77FA&t=1&email=QMpjCfTbXF8uAKIWzBALuC6MM298MX%2F7>

[Meet a woman who helped change the course of history. View & discuss a film about the landmark case that paved the way for the end of segregated education. Sylvia Mendez, Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient & Civil Rights Activist with Sandra Robbie, Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker, Mendez v Westminster: For the Children. Wednesday, November 2, 4-5:30pm, HUB 302 North]

[When Sylvia Mendez was denied enrollment in a "whites-only" school in California in the 1940s, her parents organized the Hispanic community and filed a landmark lawsuit that paved the way to the end of segregated education.  Watch the Emmy-Award-winning film Mendez v Westminster: For All the Children and then discuss the case and its incredible impact with Sylvia Mendez and the  filmmaker, Sandra Robbie. wrc.ucr.edu. Part of the Leadership Community for Women Initiative. Sponsors: Office of the Vice Chancellor Student Affairs; Division of Diversity, Excellence & Equity; Housing Services, Title IX/Sexual Harassment Office, Career Center, Asian Pacific Student Programs. Partners: Office of the Vice Chancellor Student Affairs; Division of Diversity, Excellence & Equity; Division of Undergraduate Education, Housing Services, Department of Women's Studies, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Career Center, Asian Pacific Student Programs, 2010-11 ASUCR President, Women's Studies Student Association, Students, American Association of University Women.]


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