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Feminist Film Series: Game Change
Monday,  Feb. 25, 6PM
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center


Game Change is a searing, behind- the-scenes look at John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate to the ticket's ultimate defeat in the general election just sixty days later. Told primarily through the eyes of senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who originally championed Palin and later came to regret the choice, Game Change pulls back the curtain on the intense human drama surrounding the McCain team, the critical decisions made behind closed doors and how the choice was made to bring Palin on the ticket. The film examines how we choose our leaders by offering a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an historic campaign. Co-sponsored by Newcomb College Institute, the League of Women Voters and Women in Politics.

February 18, 2013

Newcomb News is sent to all undergraduate women at Tulane University. Read this weekly newsletter to learn more about what Newcomb College Institute can do for you. From internship opportunities and research grant funding to student organizations and events, find out what's going on at NCI here and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ncitulane.


Newcomb Grant Workshops

Thursday, February 21, 4pm, LBC 210
Friday, February 22, 10am, LBC 209


Learn how to turn your idea into a well-written proposal. Reservation required for workshops, which last up to one hour.  Bring your idea as a draft if possible. More workshops may be added – check NCI’s website for updates. For more information contact Jan Mulvihill via email to jmulvihi@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-247-1639

Join our new student organization: Women in Technology!

We are looking for students who have an interest in joining a new women in technology group that was founded this past January.  We are community of women in technology interested in social innovation, community building, and business networking opportunities. Women in Technology provides basic technological skill building workshops as well as opportunities to integrate technology practices into positive change efforts in our community. Members may be any year and any major, so long as they show interest in the advancement of women in technology.
 
The Women in Tech group meets on Tuesdays at 8pm in the Collat Media Lab (second floor of the Caroline Richardson Building).
 
Contact Olivia Mahler-Haug (president) at omahlerh@tulane.edu to get involved! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!

Newcombus Ball

Friday, February 22, 7-10PM
JL Ballroom
 
Celebrating the traditions of the historic college, join the women of Josephine Louise Hall for the Newcombus Ball, featuring music, dancing and giveaways!  Dates are welcome. Formal or semi-formal dress. Light hor d'oeuvres served. 
 
For more information, contact Dylan Delisle at ddeisl@tulane.edu.
 

PLEN Women & Congress Seminar – Application deadline this Friday!

March 18-22, 2013. Applications Due by February 22. 

Shape the policy debate happening now. College women, recent grads, and young professionals are invited to launch their public policy careers in Washington D.C. Join the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) March 18-22, 2013 for Women & Congress, D.C.’s premiere leadership seminar for young women interested in policy. 2012 was a groundbreaking year for women in Congressional leadership. Learn from members of the House and Senate, their staff, and how to launch your career in political leadership. You'll meet policymakers, discuss policy issues, network with women leaders and mentors, and explore career opportunities. Newcomb can provide grants to cover the costs of the conference. Applications are available on the NCI website at http://tulane.edu/newcomb/grants.cfm and are due February 22, 2013. For more information, visit www.plen.org or email Laura Wolford at lwolford@tulane.edu.
 

Women in Business Lecture: The Power of Sponsorship: Navigating Your Way to the Top

Thursday, February 28, 7pm
Freeman Auditorium

This year's Alberto-Culver speaker Women in Business speaker is Sylvia Hewlett, professor at Columbia University. She is an economist and the founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation (formerly Center for Work-Life Policy), a Manhattan-based think tank where she chairs the Task Force for Talent Innovation, a task force of more than 70 global companies focused on fully realizing the new stream of talent in the global marketplace. She also directs the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Century Association and the World Economic Forum Council on Women’s Empowerment. 

The 2nd Annual Tulane Student Alumni Networking Reception: Careers for the Common Good

Tuesday, March 12, 6-8PM
The Bea Field Alumni House, 6319 Willow Street
 
If you are interested in exploring possible career paths or in making connections with alums with careers in non-profit, social/public service, education, etc – this reception is for you! Please join us in establishing this valuable connection between Tulane alumnae/alumni and undergraduate students.
 
Please respond to newcombalumnae@tulane.edu no later than March 5 so that we can provide an accurate count to our caterer.  Sponsored by the Newcomb College Institute, the Newcomb Alumnae Association, the Tulane Alumni Association, CELT (Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning), Career Services and Newcomb Senate.

Audre Lorde Week Activities

Sponsored by the Office for Gender and Sexual Diversity, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Anna Julia Cooper Project, Audre Lorde Week is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community leaders to come together to "develop tools for using human difference as a springboard for creative change." Like the work of Lorde herself, the experiences planned for the week combine critical analysis and love, lyricism and research, as well as struggle and collaboration (1) to address the ways in which inequity, bias, discrimination, alienation, and violence undermine our individual, collective and planetary health and (2) to develop holistic analyses and strategies for fueling well being, justice, and positive social change.  

Central to the week's events, which include a documentary, a keynote lecture, and two workshops, will be a consideration of how students, researchers, faculty, staff, and community organizers can create meaningful, reciprocal, accountable, and thriving relationships within the context of racism, sexism, heteronormativity, economic disparity, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and town/gown divides.

On Monday, February 18 from 5-6pm, the documentary "A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde," will screen in the O (LBC G04).  

On Tuesday, February 19, from 6:30-8 pm, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, will deliver the keynote "The Lorde Concordance: Brazen Black Feminism as Sacred Text" in Rogers Memorial Chapel.  Dr. Gumbs who received her PhD in English, Africana Studies and Women’s Studies from Duke University is the founder of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind and the co-creator of the Queer Black MobileHomecoming Project.  As the first person to do archival research in the papers of Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and Lucille Clifton, Dr. Gumbs teaches students and researchers how the black feminist tradition can be drawn upon to confront the most difficult issues confronting our society today.  

On Wednesday and Thursday Dr. Gumbs will lead two workshops for campus leaders, student researchers, and graduate students to develop strategies for (1) working across differences (race, class, dis/ability, genders, sexualities) (2) engaging in meaningful and accountable service learning and research.

Wednesday February 20: "At the Edges of Each Other's Battles: Leadership and Alliances Across Race, Sexuality, Class, Dis/Ability" (Tulane University: LBC 210: 7-9 pm) 

Thursday February 21: "Backyard Politics: From Community Service Learning to Community Accountable Scholarship" (Tulane University: LBC 209, 6-8pm) 

As there is limited space in the workshops, please RSVP to ogsd@tulane.edu.


Lunch with Paula Meyer, Founder and President of Friends of Ngong Road

Monday, March 11, 2013
12-1:30 PM
Newcomb House

Co-hosted by Tulane’s Social Innovation Initiatives and Newcomb College Institute
 
Paula Meyer left a successful career at Ameriprise Financial in 2006 and has since used her business, finance, and management acumen to build Friends of Ngong Road, a non-profit organization whose mission is to fund education and provide support for children who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS living in the impoverished urban communities of Nairobi, Kenya. As President of Friends of Ngong Road, Paula leads a talented team of senior executive volunteers from a variety of business backgrounds. Under her leadership Friends of Ngong Road has grown from an idea to a vibrant organization delivering improved health and education for over 350 children in Nairobi.
 
Friends of Ngong Road (FoNR), a Minnesota-based 501(c)(3), and Ngong Road Children Association (NRCA), a registered Kenya NGO, operate with the shared mission of providing education and support for impoverished Nairobi children whose families have been affected by HIV/AIDS. By taking an innovative approach to organization and service delivery and recruiting a cadre of highly engaged, talented volunteers, FoNR has demonstrated that its model can help transform the lives of one of the most at-risk populations in the world. For more information, view the following videos:
 
Children of Ngong Road, Saturday Program 
What is Friends of Ngong Road 
Friends of Ngong Road Father’s Day Video
 
Space is limited, please RSVP at http://bit.ly/WJ5uyN to attend.
 
 

Looking for something great to read? How about a recommendation from an NCI staffer?

When you make the time to read something not required for class,  you want to be sure it's good. Now you can find recommendations for great books each week in the Newcomb News, many of which are available at the Vorhoff Library or in another collection on campus. This week's recommendation comes from Laura Wolford, NCI's Assistant Director for Administration and Programs: 
I recently read and loved A Person of Interest by Susan Choi. Part academic novel, part literary thriller, this is a compelling story about a math professor suspected of bombing his colleague's office. Full of paranoia and beautiful writing and fantastic character development. 

A Person of Interest will soon be available for circulation at the Vorhoff Library. 


Newcomb-Tulane College Grant Information Luncheon

Friday, February 22, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., 
Cudd Hall, Room 203
 
Enjoy free lunch and soft drinks, hear from recent grant recipients, and learn how to apply for grant money available for student travel, research, art projects, participation in academic conferences, and more at our Grant Information Luncheon on Friday, February 22. To attend, RSVP to donuts@tulane.edu by 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 21. Visit tulane.edu/college/programs/grants.cfm for more info about Newcomb-Tulane College grants.
 

NewDay Speaker Kristin Richmond on Revolutionizing Food for Kids

Wednesday February 27, 7pm
Tulane School of Architecture
Richmond Memorial Hall
Room 201
 
Kristin Goos Richmond, founded Revolution Foods in 2005 with Kirsten Tobey to transform the way kids eat.  Revolution Foods delivers tasty and healthy meals and nutrition education to schools and programs across the country.   The organization now serves 600+ lunchrooms and over 120,000 meals each day to students across 9 states and employs more than 750 community members. They are leading the conversation on childhood health and improving the lives of  hundreds of thousands of students every single day.  Richmond’s work focuses on creating sustainable solutions which allow current and future generations of youth to obtain equal access to healthy food, education and career opportunities.
 

Online HPV Survey

Calling ALL Tulane students ages 18-23! The TU HPV Study would like you to take a quick online survey.  Please answer all questions to the best of your knowledge without looking up answers on the Internet or other resources.  For all inquiries, please contact tuhpvstudy@gmail.com.

Regional Law Students for Reproductive Justice Conference

Saturday, February 23, 2013
Free for Tulane Law and Undergraduate Students


Join the LSRJ national office, chapter leaders, local members, and reproductive rights, health, and justice experts in a day-long conference! Learn about cutting-edge reproduction rights, health, and justice issues; share organizing challenges and successes; and network with fellow student leaders. LSRJ strives to have inter-sectional and interdisciplinary reproductive justice events because we believe that it enriches the conversation. All members of the community interested in joining our conversation are welcome. To RSVP, contact keely@LSRJ.org

Foster your leadership and entrepreneurship skills abroad!

Leadership exCHANGE is proud to announce its 14th Annual Global Leadership Program (GLP). Join university students from around the world for one of our award winning Global Leadership Programs in Prague, Rome, Panama City, or Costa Rica. Also join us for our Women as Change Agents Program in Panama co-sponsored by the United Nations Information Centre (March 7-17). Spring Break and 2-8 week summer programs available.

    • Earn 3 - 9 US semester credits (6-18 ECTS)
    • Meet students from around the world
    • Develop social entrepreneurship skills
    • Create a network of leaders
    • Participate in community service projects
    • Learn theories and models for effective and innovative change
    • Broaden knowledge about diverse cultures
    • Develop public speaking, analytical thinking, and problem solving skills
    ** Post program leadership and program start-up funding available
 
A limited number of spots in the programs are being reserved for Tulane students. Applications are Rolling Admission--reviews have already begun so we suggest applying early.  Apply on-line at bit.ly/leapplication or www.globalleaders.info . Contact the Director, Heather McDougall at director@globalleaders.info for additional inquiries.

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