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Register now for NCCWSL 2023!
Registration is now open for our 2023 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL)! We’re back live and in person this year from May 31 – June 3, 2023, at the University of Maryland, College Park with an amazing lineup of inspiring speakers, workshops, panels, and more! Act now to get the early bird rate.
STEMEd For Girls workshops are back!
STEMEd for Girls is a FREE exciting program created for high school girls —with a particular focus on girls of color—and the people who support them. Whether you are just starting to explore an interest in science, technology, engineering, or math, or you have already decided to major in STEM in college, this program will help you prepare for the journey from 9th grade to 12th grade.
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In Conversation with Karen Cook Bell: April 14th, 2 PM ET
Join CEO Gloria L. Blackwell as she hosts a fascinating conversation with AAUW American Fellowship alumna and award-winning author, Dr. Karen B. Cook Bell. Her current book: Running from Bondage was a finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize for Best Book in African American Intellectual History and tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War.
Rallying for Reproductive Rights
AAUW strongly condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. AAUW believes everyone has the right to make decisions about their own reproductive lives without government interference. Abortion access is vital to women’s ability to control their lives, bodies and futures. Without reproductive freedom, there can be no equity.
AAUW Alumna Publication
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
Keisha N. Blain, Ph.D.
2016-17 AAUW American Fellow
Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Rosa Parks. She demonstrates how Hamer’s ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe.
A blend of social commentary, biography and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality and social justice.
Watch AAUW CEO Gloria L. Blackwell discuss the book with Dr. Blain in the video below.
Gloria L. Blackwell in Conversation with Alumna Dr. Keisha Blain
Until I Am Free has been described as a must-read for anyone committed to social justice. Learn more.
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