This theme has been honored with an exciting array of programs offered during the month of March. Rebecca Gordon, Director of the Office of Women s Affairs and the coordinator of the project said, This celebration entails a series of speakers who we feel embody this theme. This month we reflect upon and commemorate those women who have touched us with their distinctive lives and stories - and who taught us to see the value in our own unique strengths.
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The program will feature Cherrie Moraga, a nationally recognized playwright, poet and essayist whose compelling works weave together the issues of gender, race, culture, class, and sexuality. 750 S. Halsted St. A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers and 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient as co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Ung will provide a lecture and video presentation recounting her survival of Cambodia s brutal Pol Pot s regime in an unforgettable story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. Based in Chicago, Sara Lee Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of high quality brand-name products in 170 nations and employs 154,000 people worldwide.