(NEWARK, NJ) -- In honor of Women’s History Month, Rutgers University-Newark is hosting a celebration featuring a panel presentation and awards ceremony on Wednesday, March 4 from 2:30pm to 4:00pm in the Essex Room of the Paul Robeson Campus Center. This year’s theme is “The Right to Vote, The Right to Run,” marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment securing women’s right to vote. The panel will speak on voting rights and women in politics. A light lunch will be served immediately after ceremony.
After the panel, five women from Rutgers-Newark and the city of Newark, who have made lasting contributions in their industries but have not been recognized, will be honored by the university. Admission is free and open to the public. Attendees are asked to bring baby supplies (diapers, wipes, baby food) and teen supplies (feminine products, toiletries) to donate to Wynona's House, named after the late New Jersey State Senator Wynona Lipman. Sen. Lipman will be posthumously honored at the celebration.
Panel speakers include: Diane Allen, New Jersey state senator (1998-2018), chair of the National Foundation for Women Legislators; Andrea McChristian, law & policy director, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. Moderators include: Dr. Taja-Nia Henderson, first African-American female dean of Rutgers Graduate School-Newark; Kaity Assaf, Rutgers-Newark senior and political activist. There will be a Spoken Word Performance by the Honors Living-Learning Community's Healing Sounds of Newark.
Paul Robeson Campus Center is located at 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd in Newark, New Jersey.
Rutgers University–Newark (RU-N) is a diverse, urban, public research university that is an anchor institution in New Jersey’s cultural capital. More than 13,000 students are currently enrolled at its 38-acre campus in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, University College, the Graduate School, Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick, the Rutgers Law School–Newark, the School of Criminal Justice, and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. RU-N is exceptionally well positioned to fulfill higher education’s promise as an engine of discovery, innovation, and social mobility. It has a remarkable legacy of producing high-impact scholarship that is connected to the great questions and challenges of the world. It has the right mix of disciplines and interdisciplinary centers and institutes to take on those questions and challenges. It is in and of a city and region where its work on local challenges undertaken with partners from many sectors resonates powerfully throughout our urbanizing world. Most importantly, RU-N brings an incredible diversity of people to this work—students, faculty, staff, and community partners—making it more innovative, more creative, more engaging, and more relevant for our time and the times ahead.
