Black History Month Begins Today!!!

The beginning of Black History Month events on campus starts today!!! The Women's Resource Center is very excited for the month and all the opportunities that are available to immerse ourselves in new experiences.

Please come to some of the events and join your fellow UA students in celebrating Black History Month!!

A list of events can be found here: "Black History Month Events Get Kicked Off at the UA"

Dr. Lafayette To Give Keynote Speech!

That's right, Dr. LaFayette will be coming to the University of Arizona campus to be giving a keynote address to kick-off Black History Month.

The address will be just before the Non-Violence Leadership Conference that Dr. LaFayette will be presenting.

The story is in UANews today "Civil Rights Advocate Giving Black History Month Keynote Address"

And also on the front page of the Tucson Weekly "Civil rights pioneer LaFayette to speak at Tucson NAACP event"

For More information about the Non-Violence Leadership Conference, please visit the Women's Resource Center website at wrc.asua.arizona.edu.

New Event Pictures!!!

The WRC has been busy so far this semester, and new photos of the events "The Education of Shelby Knox" and the "Roe v. Wade Happy Hour" have been uploaded to the facebook and myspace.

If you don't have a facebook or myspace, here are some of the photos that were taken!

Semona Igama

Semona Igama is currently a junior majoring in Microbiology at the University of Arizona. She will be closely working with committees such as sex ed., self defense, and safe walk. Semona recently transfered from Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands, which is a beautiful island in the Pacific. Google it! There she was apart of a teen program called Teen Talk, which was sponsored by the local Public School System. The program aimed to educate students in high school as well as in junior high to deal with topics such as sex/health education, violence and suicide prevention, and among other teen issues, LGBTQ awareness. She is excited to take on the next level of sex/health education by becoming an active member of the Women's Resource Center, and sharing what she has learned back home while learning something new. She enjoys being apart of an energetic group who work hard, laugh out loud, and embrace women strength.

Xavier P.

What's up? I'm Xavier, and this semester I joined the WRC for the very first time, so like anything new to anybody, I am very excited. I don't have a picture to post in here, and I don't feel like writing a thousand words (as these would most likely be nonsensical), yet here is what you need to know about me: I don't much care about my future plans right now, so instead of changing the future I seek to change the present. This is why I joined the WRC. I have a couple of majors. And I have a job. But to me those things are only a distant second and third to finding tacit adventures waiting on the road. And I hope this internship will be one.

Becky - Again!

Hello! My name is Becky Butler and this semester I will be coordinating Self Defense classes - get excited! I am a junior majoring in Psychology and minoring in whatever I feel like at the moment. Currently, I am on a quest to study dolphin cognition and hopefully my dream will come to fruition this summer courtesy of the United States Navy. I like to meet new people, go caving and generally have spontaneous adventures.

Fun Fact: I box! And my car is named Gilderoy after Lockhart in the Harry Potter series.

Stephanie Sebille

Stephanie is currently a senior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Sociology. She is very excited about finishing college in August. She hopes to eventually earn her PhD and become a Psychology professor. She is an intern with the WRC Safe Walk and she helps with the online calendar. Stephanie hopes to continue and expand the Safe Walk program and hopefully educate students about the program so that it may be utilized by all the students who need it. She also plans on helping the WRC with its goal of obtaining a paid director. She spends her free time ballroom dancing and working various odd jobs.