Utah Valley University’s Office for Global Engagement as part of the UVUN Initiative will put on a speaker series in celebration of International Women’s Day on March 6 in UVU’s Fulton Library Auditorium, FL 120, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

 

Panelists include Gail Bindley-Taylor Sainte, former senior information officer at the United Nations Department of Public Information; Miloš Vukašinović, permanent representative and Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations; Celina Milner, women’s advocate, government liaison, and campaign consultant; and Shirlee Silversmith, director of Utah Division of Indian Affairs. The moderator will be Janet Colvin, associate dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

“Our goal as an office is to celebrate and empower women,” said Veronica M. Caballero, coordinator of global administration. “We want to do this, not by putting others down, but by pointing out the equality in all of us.”

 

UVU’s Office for Global Engagement recently became an associate member of the United Nations/ Department of Public Information and this will be the first official event since UVU’s membership began.

 

The next event put on by the Office for Global engagement will be UVU’s Diplomatic Conference on International Trade Relations on March 12 in UVU’s Sorensen Student Center, starting at 8:30 a.m.

  

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