WLRC & CAN Open House & Director's Welcome
The Women’s Leadership and Resource Center welcomes everyone to our Spring Open House. We will share highlights of the year from the 2016-17 academic year and welcome our new director, Dr. Natalie Bennett who joined the center in December 2016.
Natalie D. A. Bennett, Ph.D. comes to Women’s Leadership & Resource Center as a scholar-activist whose research, teaching and activism centers the lives of black women and girls. Her interests are transnational in scope, located at the intersection of black feminisms, gender/class/sexuality and social policy in Jamaica, and migrations in the African diaspora.
Dr. Bennett has taught at Hunter College (CUNY), Long Island University, University of Nebraska, DePaul University and University of Illinois at Chicago. Her publications focus on transnational migration and Caribbean immigrant women’s labor, racial and sexual identities among African American lesbians and the politics of same-sexualities in Jamaica.
Dr. Bennett received her Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology and Sociology from Union College (Schenectady, New York) and her doctorate (PhD) in Sociology from University of Michigan. Most recently, she served as the Assistant Director of Gender & Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Join us in giving a warm welcome to Dr. Bennett! Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Tuesday, March 28, 3 - 5pm
1101 W. Taylor Street, Suite 310
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