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Women's Leadership NewsOctober 2012
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Transforming Lives Documentary Film Project
Mahnaz Afkhami

 

IWL's "Transforming Lives Documentary Film Project" is featured on Georgetown University's online Journal on Communication, Culture, and Technology. The Journal includes Sasha Taner's outstanding essay on the power of film to educate students about women's leadership for social change. Sasha Taner, is Associate Director of Leadership Programs and Research at IWL and a Ph.D. candidate in Global Affairs at the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers-Newark.   Visit the Georgetown's Journal at www.gnovisjournal.org/ to read Sasha's essay and see "Iran: The Woman's Voice, An Interview with Mahnaz Afkhami," a documentary film by IWL Leadership Scholar Hera Mir. To learn more about the Transforming Lives documentary Film Project, click here.

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Calendar 2012 
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calendar of public events for the IWL consortium, click here. 
An Evening with Geena Davis
Tuesday, October 16, 7:00 pm

Kirkpatrick Chapel, New Brunswick, NJ

 

Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis is the 2012 Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecturer at the Institute for Women's Leadership. One of Hollywood's most respected actors, Davis is the founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

 

Many of us admire Geena Davis for her vivid, landmark roles - as Dottie Hinson in "A League of Their Own," and as the offbeat dog trainer Muriel Pritchett in "The Accidental Tourist," a role that earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her role in "Thelma and Louise," along with co-star Susan Sarandon, set a new path for women in film. Then a new generation came to know Davis as the first women president in the television series "Commander in Chief."

 

Now Geena is playing a new leading role as a powerful advocate for gender equity in the media. Through the Geena Davis Institute, she is engaging film and TV creators to increase the percentages of female characters - and reduce gender stereotyping - in media made for children 11 and under.

 

Join us on October 16 for "An Evening with Geena Davis."    

RSVP to Gail Reilly at [email protected]

 

Crime and Camaraderie
Photograph by Peter Simon
Photo by Peter Simon

A Benefit Reception with Linda Fairstein

Tuesday, October 9, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Manhattan

 

The Institute for Women's Leadership is sponsoring an intimate benefit event in Manhattan hosted by Douglass alumna Gina Valeri and featuring the acclaimed mystery writer Linda Fairstein.

 

Linda Fairstein-former New York City prosecutor, and internationally best-selling crime novelist -is one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children. For three decades, from 1972 until 2002, she served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was chief of the county's pioneering Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for twenty-six years.

 

Ms. Fairstein is the author of an internationally best-selling series of crime novels which feature Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper. The fourteenth in the series - NIGHT WATCH - debuted in July 2012 and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Linda will be speaking about her work in an informative and entertaining event to support young women's leadership at Rutgers Institute for Women's Leadership.

 

40 Years of Women in Media
 

A Day of Documentary Film and Events

Wednesday, October 31, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center

 

Join us for film screenings, roundtable discussions, and commentary by special guests Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director of Women Make Movies, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Director of "No! The Rape Documentary."

 
Join the dialogue.  Let us know what you think and we will share your comments in the next e-newsletter. Send your comments to [email protected]