WASHINGTON – AAUW Executive Director Linda D. Hallman, CAE, will serve as a panelist at the CARE National Conference & Celebration, May 5–6, at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in Washington, D.C. CARE, a leading international human organization committed to ending poverty worldwide and improving the economic, educational, and social conditions of the world's women and girls, is an AAUW international partner.
Hallman is a featured speaker on "Connecting the World's Women in the Fight against Global Poverty" along with Katherine Blakeslee, director of the Office of Women in Development, USAID, and Eve Brown-Waite,author of First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria. Lesley Jane Seymour, editor-in-chief of More magazine, will moderate.
"AAUW works in various ways to empower women around the globe through our international programs and through our partnerships with organizations like CARE," Hallman said. "There is a positive relationship between education and economic security for women, and yet, in some parts of the world, women are denied even a basic education. We must work together to break the cycle of poverty and oppression."
Billed as a two-day event of political action, learning, and inspiration, the CARE conference will draw top activists, lawmakers, and speakers, including Wolf Blitzer, of CNN, and Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
The first day of the conference is devoted to education and networking. The panel presentations will show participants the many different factors that perpetuate global poverty. On the second day, attendees will visit their members of Congress on Capitol Hill.
Conference registration has closed. To see highlights, visit http://www.careconference.org.
In 2007, AAUW entered into a partnership with CARE as a way to build on a century of responsible public participation at the local, state, national, and international levels. AAUW believes that global interdependence requires national and international policies that promote peace, justice, human rights, sustainable development, and mutual security for all people.
To learn more about AAUW's efforts to advance global equity, visit http://www.aauw.org/About/international_corner/.
