OUR VOTE, OUR RIGHTS, OUR FUTURE
From Right to Vote to Equal Rights
Sunday August 25th
EVENT Location: Rolfe Hall, UCLA
TIME: 3 - 5 pm, Doors open at 2:30
You are cordially invited to this Public Event which will be presented in English. Program Participants:
* Dr. Marie Nubia-Feliciano - Talk titled "Why We Must Act" is about feminist movement, grassroots movement, coalition building and why it matters today
* Carina Reyes - Talk titled "Reproductive Justice: An Intersectional Approach to Body Autonomy" is about Reproductive Rights under attack in US and what can we do to resist and persist for Equal Rights
* Kiyana Asemanfar - Talk titled "How Voting is Changing for LA and Orange County Voters in 2020".
* 2019 Women's Equality Day Award will be presented to Mr. Reza Gohrzad, journalist and political commentator for his exemplary public service and dedication to promoting gender equality.
* Philippe Anthony Grant, Ph.D. - Master of Ceremony
* Q&A will follow
Sponsors:
1) Iranian-Persian American Association of Greater Long Beach (IPAA-LB)
2) Center of Reproductive Rights (CRR)
3) Common Cause California (CCC)
4) Mediators Beyond Borders (MBB)
5) "Pasadena Celebrates 2020" in affiliation with National Women's History Alliance
6) Women's Intercultural Network (WIN)
EVENT Location: Rolfe Hall, UCLA
PARKING structure 3 is best accessed from Sunset Blvd.
Drop off possible at the Portola Plaza Circle.
Master of Ceremony: Philip Grant is an anthropologist, sociologist, historian, and translator from Persian and French. His commitment to feminism grew during his four years of collaborative fieldwork with Iranian-American activists from the One Million Signatures Campaign which formed the basis of his PhD dissertation in anthropology at UC Irvine. After graduating in 2012 he went to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a postdoctoral fellow in the Social Studies of Finance where he drew on his earlier experience in the investment management industry to co-author the book Chains of Finance, a sociological study of investment management, one of the many areas of contemporary life with serious gender issues. Together with his family he moved back to Los Angeles in 2016 where he now works as a freelance editor and translator, while continuing his own research. He is presently combining his interests in gender, power, class and violence by studying the Zanj Rebellion, an uprising of East African slaves, peasants, poor townspeople, and Bedouin in 9th century Iraq and Iran; and the regulation of markets and morality in the classical Islamic world.
Keynote Speaker: Marie Nubia-Feliciano holds a Ph.D. in Education. She also holds a master’s degree in Counseling, with an emphasis in student development in higher education, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences. Her research interests focus the experiences of individuals and communities at the boundaries. She teaches part time for Chapman University and UC Irvine, where she instructs on such topics as leadership, ethics, race and ethnicity, and identity. She currently resides in Southern California with her family. Marie Nubia-Feliciano is also founder and CEO of the Colégas Group, a company that provides professional development and public speaking opportunities. Dr. Nubia-Feliciano was born in Vieques and raised in Culebra, Puerto Rico. Briefly living in New York, and later permanently moving to California as a young child with her family, she has developed a keen interest in the world of education. She has experienced all the possible educational options available in California: completed her K-12 in public schools, then proceeded to the University of California for her bachelor’s, California State University for her master’s, and eventually Chapman University, a private institution, for her doctorate. Her dissertation focused on the experiences of Afro-Puerto Rican women as they develop their racial and cultural identity. Her master’s thesis focused on the transition issues experienced by first and second year medical students as they move from life before medical school to life after medical school.
Speaker: Carina Reyes is a co-founder and co-host of Con Las Comadres, a transnational media project that which centers the knowledge and labor of Women of Color. As a Boricua feminist and single mother, much of her writing and photography explores themes of marginality, intersecting identities and decolonization. Carina was first politicized during the Occupy movement in Los Angeles but has since be involved in environmental, immigrant and womxn's rights movements. Mostly recently, she worked at California Latina for Reproductive Justice as a community organizer. Currently, Carina is focused on is completing her undergraduate education UCLA as well as expanding Con Las Comadres. www.conlascomadres.com
Speaker: Kiyana Asemanfar is the Policy Manager at California Common Cause,where she advocates for and implements policies to advance voting rights, limit big money in politics, and support independent redistricting practices. In 2018, Ms. Asemanfar led the Election Protection Program. Previously, she worked on electoral campaigns in several states including Iowa, Nevada, and California. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Business Administration.
