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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER:
Black Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
2:00 pm, MultiCultural Center Lounge

A talk by:

Shana Griffin

Interim Executive Director of the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic and Project Coordinator of the Sexual & Reproductive Health Advocacy Project. She is also co-founder of the New Orleans Women’s Health & Justice Initiative. Ms. Griffin serves on the board of several organizations, including the national advisory collective of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, and Critical Resistance New Orleans, part of a national movement against the prison industrial complex. She will speak on post-Katrina New Orleans and the effort to build the New Orleans Women of Color Resource and Organizing Center.

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Race, Place, and Power: This event is part of a series of classes, forums, presentations, and discussions aimed at evaluating emerging concepts, theories, and policies about race and space.

Series coordinated by the Critical Issues Race, Place, and Power Advisory Board. Support provided by the Critical Issues in America endowment in the College of Letters & Science at UC Santa Barbara. Co-sponsored by the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and the Black Studies Department.

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