22nd Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference: Sistahood, Health & Healing

* 22nd ANNUAL EMPOWERING WOMEN OF COLOR
CONFERENCE

"Our Bodies, Our Souls:
Sistahood, Health & Healing"

WHEN: Saturday March 3, 2007
9:00-5:00PM

WHERE: Martin Luther King Building,
University of California, Berkeley

FEATURING:

* Keynote Speaker: MILILANI TRASK: a Renowned Leader of the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement and an internationally acclaimed political speaker & attorney.

* AYA DE LEON: Acclaimed poet, performer and Director of June Jordan's Poetry for the People at U.C. Berkeley.

* ROOPA SINGH: Noted queer poet and performer.

+ HEALTH PANEL featuring Bay Area
Health Care Activists:

* Patty Berne ( Queer and disability health issues )
* Shawnna D ( African American women and incarceration)
* Destiny Lopez ( poor and immigrant women's access to reproduction)
* Sujatha Jesudason (Respondent)-Director of the program on Gender, Justice
and Human Genetics at the Center for Genetics and Society

+ + Bay Area's favorite--DJ BACK SIDE (formerly of KMEL)

*Indigenous and cultural performers

*Women of Color Film Festival

*Workshops on Women's Health and communities.

*Vendor Fair featuring unique products and gifts

* Food, opportunities for networking and sistahood

For more info please contact:
(510) 642-2676,
email: woci [at] ga.berkeley.edu

Conference Website
ewocc.berkeley.edu
-Please register / scholarshipsavailable!


EVERYONE IS WELCOME!