[Peace] Fwd: Social Justice Speaker: Imani Bazzell (9/11)

[Alfred Kagan]

>FYI
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>please forward this announcement to others who may be interested --
>thanks!
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>Social Justice Speaker Series
>Graduate School of Library & Information Science
>Everyone is Welcome!
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>Black WomenÕs Health & Technology
>A Community/UI Research Partnership
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>Imani Bazzell
>Director, SisterNet
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>1:00-2:00 p.m.
>Thursday, September 11, 2003
>131 Library and Information Science Building
>501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL
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>In her presentation, Imani Bazzell will describe how SisterNet
>collaborates with UI through Afya, a participatory action project devoted
>to Black womenÕs health and technology. Through Afya, SisterNet women have
>had an impact on the design of community information systems
>developed on campus and have presented numerous service-learning
>opportunities for UI students and faculty.
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>Imani Bazzell completed her undergraduate education in Interdisciplinary
>Studies through the Honors Program at Fisk University in Nashville, TN in
>1981 and has worked as a community educator and organizer in the areas of
>racial justice, gender justice, healthcare access, educational reform, and
>leadership development for the past 25 years.  She is the founder and
>director of SisterNet, a local network of African American women committed
>to the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual health of Black
>women.  In addition to her responsibilities as a Grant Coordinator at
>Parkland College, she serves as an independent consultant with public
>schools, colleges and universities, unions, non-profits, state and
>international agencies, and community-based organizations to promote
>organizational development and social justice.
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>Related Reading:
>Bishop, Ann, Bazzell, Imani, Mehra, Bharat, & Smith, Cynthia. (2001).
>Afya: Social and digital technologies that reach across the digital
>divide. First Monday, 6(4).
>[http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_4/bishop/index.html]
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>Refreshments Served!
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>Ann P. Bishop, Associate Professor                        (217) 244-3299 (V)
>Graduate School of Library and Information Science        (217) 244-3302 (F)
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                  abishop at uiuc.edu 
>203 LIS Building (MC-493)
>501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL  61820
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>                    Prairienet (http://www.prairienet.org)
>                  The Inquiry Page (http://inquiry.uiuc.edu)
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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