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Date(s) - 03/05/2018 - 03/09/2018
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Join WNMU for the third Annual F Week! It will showcase leaders, speakers, musicians and artists from diverse backgrounds to empower, celebrate and honor women.
Monday, March 5, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., Light Hall
Denise Mitten, Professor of Adventure Education Master of Arts Program and Sustainability Education
Sponsored by WNMU Outdoor Program and The Center
Denise Mitten, Professor of Adventure Education Master of Arts Program and Sustainability Education at Prescott College. Her research and education combine ecosystem sustainability and social sustainability (the ethics of care) with expert outdoor skills to help people learn sustainable community building skills through outdoor living and travel. Dr. Mitten works with international ecotourism, work at the Center for Spirituality in personal sustainability, and designing the Baldwin school project to help working poor youth understand the intersection of health, nutrition, physical activity and economics. She has also coordinated a campus-wide political engagement project, sponsored by the Carnage Institute with measurable success in student involvement. With a passion for teaching and group dynamics, Dr. Mitten initiated programs to strengthen bonding between parents and children and a leadership program for women felons. Dr. Mitten has advocated and written about caring and compassionate leadership combined with expert outdoor skills since 1985. She developed an intensive and award-winning leadership training and apprenticing program for women, opening the door to outdoor leadership to many women.
Tuesday, March 6, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., Light Hall
Elisa Juarez, Corporate Social Responsibility Program Officer, Target
Refreshments and Food Courtesy of The Office of The President
Sponsored by The Center in collaboration with WNMU School of Business
Elisa Juárez serves as Corporate Social Responsibility Program Officer at Target. In this capacity, she has a proven record of being a key team member for Target’s corporate philanthropy strategy, building innovative new solutions for Target in the CSR space and adding value into the entire chain while also benefiting various stakeholders. Elisa Juárez sits on the board of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation where she helps promote cultural pride, organize high-profile sustainable programs including Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards, Latinos On Fast Track (LOFT), Hispanic Heritage Awards and Public Awareness Campaigns. Moreover, she is also a member of Rotary International where she also helps to serve her communities.
Wednesday, March 7, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., The Center
Women in Music!
Summer Osborne
Summer Osborne is an award-winning American singer-songwriter who entertains audiences throughout the U.S. and Canada with her magical brand of melodic and lyrically potent genre-jumping performances. She masterfully amalgamates the human condition, spirituality, truth, love and healing. When Osborne’s kaleidoscope of music is infused with her charismatic stage presence and naturally humorous personality, every show leaves the listener wanting more. Summer’s ninth album, “Spiritual Revolution,” was released in August of 2015 to rave reviews, and her eighth album, “As I Am,” in 2013.
Lyla June
Lyla June is a musician, poet, anthropologist, educator, community organizer and public speaker. Many hats, but the underlying prayer is always the same.
Ava del Cielo/ SOL TEC
Producer/emcee Colin Diles and singer/songwriter Ava Del Cielo make up Sol Tec, an Albuquerque-based Hip Hop duo. Combining live beat production and a fine-tuned balance between rap and singing, Sol Tec channels EDM, Dancehall and R & B to create a unique musical brew that’s smooth and seductive. Sol Tec has garnered attention with the release of the duo’s debut album “Tierra Firme,” and the two are currently touring to support the sound with a second project due summer 2018.
Thursday, March 8, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., Light Hall
Artist Lecture with Xandra Ibarra/La Chica Boom
Through combined parody and spectacle, performance artist, Xandra Ibarra, creates works that explore racialized sexuality and queer forms of pleasure. In her artist lecture, Ibarra will delve into and illustrate some of the ideological frameworks she draws upon to create and depart from what she calls spictacles—performances that engage abjection, hyper-raciality and sexuality.
Xandra Ibarra is a Latinx performance artist, originally from El Paso and currently based in Oakland, CA. She sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom. Her last performance, “Nude Laughing” was listed in ART FOURM as Best Performance in 2016. This work is about racialized skin and how definitions of Latina women and bodies of women of color are intertwined and defined against whiteness and white femininity. Xandra Ibarra’s work is preoccupied with how minoritized bodies occupy a “stuck” status within a visual economy. Ibarra’s work has been featured at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá, Colombia), Broad Museum (LA, USA), Popa Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Joe’s Pub (NYC), PPOW Gallery (NYC), and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) to name a few. She has been awarded the Art Matters Grant, NALAC Fund for the Arts, ReGen Artist Fund, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award.
Friday, March 9, noon – 1 p.m., Center for Student Success Workroom in Juan Chacon 219
WNMU Career Development & Training Program
Dr. Huerta presents “Gender Roles, Inequity and the Workplace.”