MCN Celebrates 30 Years!

MCN kicked off our 30th anniversary May 8 with an Austin Open-House, celebrated in typical Austin style.  Clinicians, health advocates, community activists and friends shared in the festivities.

Among the Highlights:

Marcia Roth, Executive Director of the Mary Byron Project in Louisville, Kentucky, joined us to bestow the Roth Award on MCN's Hombres Unidos Contra la Violencia Familiar violence prevention program. Also with us were colleagues from two previous award winners - the Texas Council on Family Violence and SafePlace's Expect Respect community outreach program.

To top the off evening, State Representative Elliott Naishtat read a Resolution from the Texas House of Representatives honoring MCN for 30 years fighting to advance health justice, and the Texas Senate issued a proclamation.  Wishing those of you from distant locales could be here, we felt you here in spirit.

The 15th annual National Women's Health Week kicked off on Mother's Day, May 11, and was celebrated until May 17, 2014. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health, National Women's Health Week aimed to empower women to make their health a priority. For more information on Women's Health, please visit womenshealth.gov/nwhw

Keslie Box is the Executive Administrative Associate at MCN. Originally from New Braunfels, Texas, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 with a BA in Anthropology and a heavy focus in social justice and Latin American Studies.

For the past two years, she worked in New Orleans for an international anti-poverty organization, All Together in Dignity Fourth World Movement. As a Program Director, she coordinated several programs rooted in education, artistic expression, environmental and racial justice, and community participation.

Currently she is attending herbal medicine school in Austin and is very committed to holistic health, social and environmental justice, and alternative education.