All meetings are held at 11:00 AM at 65 East Huron, unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming events: Jones Academy
Nov 11, Speaker, Andi Danis, Former State President
Skit participants from Audience
January 13, Students from Jones Academy Prep College
Biases Women Face
March 10, The Honorable Leonard Murray, Moderator, Living Wills for Women
Sat, May: Final Branch Meeting
SATURDAY, September 9, 2017: Meet AAUW Fellows
SATURDAY, November 11, 2017
SATURDAY, January 13, 2018
SATURDAY, March 10, 2018
SATURDAY, May 12, 2018
More information on the events will be updated shortly.
PAST EVENTS
September 10, 2016: Meet AAUW Fellows
This year, AAUW is providing more than $3.7 million in funding for fellows and grantees to support academic work and lead innovative community projects to empower women and girls. We’ll meet Katrina Malone and Skyler Schrempp, two current AAUW fellows, and learn about their work.
Katrina Malone has worked with several nonprofit organizations to bring affordable housing and community facilities to disadvantaged neighborhoods. She is an active board member of Deborah’s Place, a nonprofit offering permanent supportive housing for women in Chicago. Her work will focus on community development, with an emphasis on empowering women to create sustainable change in their communities through educational and economic opportunities. She is the recipient of an AAUW Selected Professions Fellowship and studies Business Administration and Management at Northwestern University.
Skyler Schrempp is Artistic Director of The Viola Project, which empowers girls in Chicago’s underserved communities through Shakespeare. Middle and high school students will use Shakespeare’s text as a lens through which to explore contemporary social justice issues facing girls and women. The project includes a performance component and many creative activities, with the goal of helping young women find their creative voices, advocate for themselves, and engage with their communities.
When and where:
September Meeting 10,2016
Chapter business meeting begins 10:30 am. Presentation, 11 am.
65 East Huron, Kyles Gallery
Chicago, Illinois 60611
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016, noon.
Annual Meeting
Wing Hoe Restaurant, 5356 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Facilitator: Dr. Charles Peterson
Mr. Kevin Nance, Photography, type of Lens.
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Facilitator: Attorney Joan Pantsios
Book review: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
In Julia Alvarez’s debut novel, the García sisters — Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía — and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming United States, their parents try to hold on to their old ways, but the girls try to find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair, and by wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents sets the sisters free to tell their most intimate stories s how they came to be at home — and not at home — in America.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Facilitator: Dr. Shaheen Sayeed
Speaker: Attorney Louis R. Fine
Topic: Taking Control of Your Divorce
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2015, noon.
Fundraiser (TBA)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2015, 10:00 a.m.
Facilitator: Dr. Shaheen Sayeed
Speaker: Mrs. Kanchan Lall
Topic: How to Avoid Cardiac Problems
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2015, 10:00 a.m.
Meet the Fellows We Support
Facilitator: Dr. Lisa Ann Acosta
A light brunch to be served.
Recipient: Rashida Abdul-Ganiyu
Award Year: 2015-16
Award: International Fellowship
Institution: University of Illinois, Chicago
Citizenship: Ghana
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Discipline: Biology
Degree and Specialization: Sc.D., Biological sciences (molecular cell and developmental biology)
Rashida Abdul-Ganiyu hopes to use her research findings to help increase productivity and production among resource-poor women farmers in Ghana. Her passion for helping disadvantaged people led her to establish Tab-bu Foundation, a youth-led charity organization that supports orphans, children with disabilities, and needy rural women and children.
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Recipient: Midwest Academy
Project Director: Kate Barthelme
Award Year: 2015-16
Award: Community Action Grant
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Term: One-year
Project Name: Women’s Legislative Leadership Project
The Women’s Legislative Leadership Project is an intensive policy training program that equips women, their allies, and their organizations with the capacity to advocate successfully for sound policies that ensure economic stability, equity, and justice for women in Illinois, with a focus on benefiting older women of color and their communities.
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Recipient: Breakthrough
Project Director: Amy Coles
Award Year: 2015-16
Award: Community Action Grant
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Term: One-year
Project Name: STEAM Education for Girls
Breakthrough’s STEAM Education for Girls programs incorporates STEM programs with the arts to provide a holistic learning experience for girls in East Garfield Park on Chicago’s west side. Through this innovative program, girls are exposed to a variety of technical skills and future career opportunities. The goal is to give high-quality education programming to underserved youth, to expand and deepen skill sets, and to create workers.
Name: Genevieve Dempsey
Award Year: 2015-16
Award: American Fellowship
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Discipline: Music
Degree and Specialization: Ph.D., Ethnomusicology
Project Name: ‘Salve Maria’: The Sacred Sound of Congado in Afro-Brazilian Musical Communities
Genevieve Dempsey’s research investigates how congadeiros, Afro-Brazilian practitioners of popular Catholicism, use sacred musical performances as forums for negotiating racial and gender identities. She explores the ways in which congadeiros turn to music to collectively mobilize for the advancement of cultural rights, social justice, and racial and gender equality.
Name: Nisheeta Jagtiani
Award Year: 2015-16
Award: International Fellowship
Institution: University of Chicago
Citizenship: India
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Discipline: Religion
Degree and Specialization: M.A., Religious studies
Nisheeta Jagtiani’s interest is the sociocultural effects of Dalits coverting to Buddhism in modern India. The Dalits, often called the untouchables, form the lowest caste of the Hindu caste system. They have been discriminated against by upper caste members in almost all spheres of life such as social, professional, and cultural. Dalits women are the most vulnerable members of the community and are most often victims of rape and physical abuse.
Name: Rehanna Kheshgi
Award Year: 2015-16
Award: American Fellowship
Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Discipline: Music
Degree and Specialization: Ph.D., Ethnomusicology
Project Name: Crowning the Bihu Queen: Music, Rural Youth Culture, and Gender in Liberalizing Northeast India
Rehanna Kheshgi’s research directs attention to the situated politics of young women performers in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. She investigates how economic liberalization has shaped national identity, increased the circulation of mass media, and opened up possibilities for challenging traditional gender roles by focusing on the springtime Assamese Bihu festival.
Name: Ariel Schwartz
Award Year: 2015-16
Award: American Fellowship
Institution: Northwestern University
Location: Evanston, Illinois
Discipline: Religion
Degree and Specialization: Ph.D., Religious studies
Project Name: In the Wake of Hate: Rebuilding Religion, Place, and Community in Sacramento and Joplin
Ariel Schwartz examines the effects of violence committed against religious minorities in the United States. Focusing on the arsons of a California synagogue and a Missouri mosque, her dissertation addresses the consequences of hate crimes for communities’ reconstructions of religious space, practice, and identity and the lived expressions of pluralism and belonging.
Saturday, May 9, 2015 12:00 p.m.
Annual Meeting at The Wing Hoe Restaurant Restaurant, 5336 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL, 60615.
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:30 a.m.
Professor Charles Peterson, Dean of the College, North Park University, Chicago will present “Why Be Like Scandinavia?” a look at eleven international rankings including a focus on the World Economic Forum’s Global “Gender Gap Report 2014.” While Scandinavian countries take the top five spots on the list of countries with the best record on limiting the gender gap; Nicaragua, Barundi, South Africa and several developed countries score higher than the United States which comes in at 20th place.
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Speaker Fiona Chin, a fellow at Northwestern, will speak on beliefs of wealthy Americans on economic equality and public policy. The meeting will take place at 10:00 a.m., St. James Commons, 65 East Huron, The Gallery.