February
27 ,
2004
Forum
Focuses on Black Women in the Media March 5–6
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Photo:
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Journalist Cassandra
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This year’s Women in Public Life
Forum, “Black Women in the Media: The Power of Representation,” will
be held at Mount Holyoke March 5 and 6. The event, a Weissman
Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts initiative cosponsored
by the Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association and the Ellen Boer Fund
for Advocacy, is part of the Weissman Center’s year-long
series, Geographies of Color: Education, Inequality, and Black
Leadership in the Twenty-First Century.
The forum is a platform for discourse on how black women leaders have shaped,
and been shaped by, diverse images of women of color in the media. Speakers include
actress Michelle Hurst ’74; magazine writer, editor, and publisher Tara
Roberts ’91; newspaper journalist Cassandra West ’79; and television
news producer Angela Terrell Heath ’93. Community service activist Asha
Strazzero-Wild ’04 will give opening remarks and Alumnae Association executive
director Rochelle Calhoun ’83
will moderate the discussion.
The two-day event will
include a “visual arts brunch” on Friday and a panel discussion,
luncheon, and networking hour on Saturday. All students are welcome to attend. he
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