[Health_Education_Promotion] Women's Health Network Lecture, Feb 10, 2012

[Alissa Leavitt (Green)]

FYI...



The Women's Health Network Presents:  The History of Women in Politics in
Oregon

The Women's Health Network's mission is to form a coalition open to all who
share the goal to achieve optimum health and healing for women in Oregon
through advocacy, education and networking.

In pursuit of this mission, the women’s health network provides a forum to
discuss issues related to women’s health, presents educational sessions and
promotes networking and mutual support among members.

This year's speaker series is titled, "*Politics and Women's Health: Is it
Personal*?".  Presentations are held quarterly, beginning on February 10th,
at McMenamin's Kennedy School.  February's presentation will focus on the
History of Women in Politics in Oregon.  The event is free and open to the
public. Doors open at 8:00 am.  The presentation begins at 8:35 and the
event ends at 11:30 am.  A light continental breakfast will be available.
For more information email valerie.a.stratton at state.or.us.

Sunny Petit will present:  "Women making History:  Oregon Politics and
Policy".  Sunny is the Associate Director for the Center for Women,
Politics, and Policy which promotes the education and empowerment of women
and girls through civic leadership programs and research. She is also 1 of
3 Oregon delegates to Vision 2020 Equality in Sight, a national initiative
through Drexel University, to increase equality for women nationally by
2020, and chairs the Oregon Commission for Women. Prior to joining the
Center, she was Regional Director for a counter-human trafficking
organization in South Asia and ran programs in India, Bangladesh, and
Nepal. She is a recipient of the Tokyo Foundation's International Trade and
Development Fellowship for research on women's political development in
Turkey. She lives in North Portland with her husband Peter, and children,
Hendrik and Daphne.

Marge Easley will present "The League's Role in Oregon Politics".  Marge
has been a member of the League of Women Voters for 20 years and last May
completed a four year term as state president.  She has been a member of
the League’s state action team for many years, and she wants to share with
you what the League is and does and what role it has played in Oregon’s
political process over the last 20 years.

Marge grew up in Pennsylvania, but has lived in Rhode Island, Delaware,
Switzerland, and South Carolina before moving with her husband and daughter
to Wilsonville sixteen years ago. She’s a retired teacher and first joined
the League in South Carolina when her daughter, now a sophomore in college,
was just a toddler.  She joined because she wanted to make a difference in
a small town where the racial inequities and lack of opportunities for
black youths deeply troubled her.  After moving to Oregon, she has followed
a wide range of issues for the League, spends a lot of time at the Capitol
when the Legislature is in session (the short February session is now
underway), and is currently helping to write a history of the League of
Women Voters of Oregon, in honor of the 100th anniversary of women’s
suffrage in Oregon, which is being celebrated this year.

For further information, see the attached flyer or visit our website at:
http://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyPeopleFamilies/Women/Pages/whn.aspx



Rachel Linz, MPH
Research Analyst - Reproductive Health
Office of Family Health - Public Health Division
Oregon Health Authority
800 NE Oregon St., Suite 370
Portland, OR 97232

tel. (971) 673-0358
fax. (971) 673-0278
rachel.s.linz at state.or.us




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Alissa Gabrielle Leavitt, MPH, CHES
green.alissa at gmail.com
503-358-2331
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