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A close up with peace activist Ela Gandhi
 Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and a peace activist in
South Africa, has been empowering and educating communities in
South Africa for decades. She was elected the vice president of the
Natal Indian Congress in the 1970s and served as a Member of Parliament
in South Africa from 1994-2004.
Born in 1940, Gandhi grew up in the Phoenix Settlement in the
Inanda district in the KwaZulu Natal province. She attended Durban
Indian Girls High School for four years and is a graduate of Natal
University and the University of South Africa.
During her 15-year career as a social worker, she worked at
Verulam Child Welfare and Durban Indian Child and Family Welfare
Society. In addition, she participated in support groups assisting
people who had gone to prison and worked with the Detainees Support
Committee.
Gandhi will speak at the 22nd annual Benjamin E.
Mays Lecture, scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Georgia State University Speaker's
Auditorium (44 Courtland St., Atlanta).
For more information about Gandhi and the Mays Lecture, click here.Photo caption: Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and a peace activist in South Africa. |
Upcoming Events in the College of Education
Research Wednesdays Speaker Series
October 6, 2010
12 noon
College of Education, Room 1030
30 Pryor Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Presenter: Debra Houry
Topic: "Intimate partner violence-identification and interventions: Current research findings"
Debra Houry, vice-chair for research and associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, serves as the director for the Center for Injury Control at the Rollins School of Public Health and teaches several courses on violence and injury prevention at Emory. Her research interests focus on the prevention of violence against women, mental health issues related to violence and emergency care. She has been the principal investigator on multiple federally funded grants totaling over $7 million, including an Injury Control Research Center grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Research Wednesdays is held every Wednesday of the month. An RSVP is required to attend this event. To confirm your attendance, please contact Erin Whitney in the COE's Educational Research Bureau at (404) 413-8090 or ewhitney@gsu.edu.
For more information on Houry and the college's Research Wednesdays Speaker Series, click here.
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Your gifts to the COE at work...
Corrie Sears
2010 Outstanding Master's Student in Special Education Award Recipient
"Completing a certification program and master's degree in special education at Georgia State was a tremendous personal success. Throughout my GSU experience, I felt very fortunate to work with and alongside such exceptional professors and fellow students. Receiving the Outstanding Master's Student in Special Education Award upon graduation gave me an even greater sense of pride in utilizing my degree. As I work with my students every day, I am grateful to GSU and its generous supporters."
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