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January 10, 2012

Leading by Example: Female Community Leaders Speak at Local Conference

London, ON – Global Vision’s London West Rising Ambassador Leenat Jilani and Samantha Fox, Riding Ambassador Program co-ordinator, seek to inspire leadership by gathering local female community leaders together with local students in a half-day conference. Fox, a University of Western Ontario fourth year, has been promoting Canada on a national level while Jilani, a Brescia University College third year, learned the value of networking while traveling to Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore last year on a Global Vision mission.

The Beyond Empowerment: Women of Change Conference will feature keynote speakers MP Susan Truppe, Parliamentary Sectary for the Status of Women; MPP Deb Matthews, Ontario’s Minister of Health; and Dr. Colleen Hanycz, Principal of Brescia. Local community leaders, such as Cheryl Forchuk, Associate Director of Nursing; Linda Russell, President OES Inc: Allyson Larkin, Social Justice and Peace Studies, Kings University College; Ms. Naeema Farooqi, CEO Idea Consultant, Creative Workshop & Founder/ Editor-in- Chief of London LINK Monthly, will be running mini-workshops for participants to become leaders of change.

The Rising Ambassador program was created as part of Global Vision — a not-for-profit organization started in 1991 by former London MP Terry Clifford — to connect youth with business and government with 30 peer volunteers representing every province and territory in Canada.

Beyond Empowerment - Women of Change Conference
Brescia University College Auditorium
January 12, 2012
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Admission: Free
Refreshments will be served.

RSVP: http://beyondempowerment.eventbrite.ca

 

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For more information please contact Michele Feeser, Communications, Marketing & External Relations Officer, at 519.432.8353, ext. 28280 or mfeeser@uwo.ca.

Brescia University College, Canada’s premier women’s university college, is affiliated with The University of Western Ontario. The 1,100 women registered as either full or part-time students at Brescia study a wide variety of subjects in Arts, Social Sciences, and Foods & Nutrition in an empowering, compassionate, student-centred, and invigorating environment. Degrees are granted by Western. The Catholic College welcomes students from all backgrounds and values diversity. For more current and archived news, a listing of faculty experts, and photos please visit our Online Media Room at http://www.brescia.uwo.ca/media/index.html

 

 

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