2006 UGA Women's History Month Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Martinez

Elizabeth Martinez will deliver the 2006 Women's History Month Keynote Address on March 2, 2006 at 7:00pm in the Tate Center Reception Hall.

The Institute for Women’s Studies is please to announce that Elizabeth Martinez will deliver the 2006 Women’s History Month keynote address at the Tate Center Reception Hall on Thursday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. A social justice activist and organizer for over 45 years, Martinez has published 6 books and many articles on popular struggles in the Americas including 500 Years of Chicano History and De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. She worked fulltime for Black civil rights with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later with the Chicano/a struggle in New Mexico where she edited a movement newspaper for five years. Based on that experience, Martinez co- founded and now directs the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, a resource center to help build alliances between peoples of color. She ran for Governor of California in 1982 on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket and has won many awards for service and leadership. NACCS Scholar for 2000 and with an honorary doctorate, she has taught on Latinas/os in the California State University system and works with activist youth groups. She traveled to North Vietnam in the anti-war movement and more recently served as an editor of the anti-war newspaper War Times.

At the Keynote Address, Martinez will speak on: “Building Coalitions between Peoples of Color: An Essential Tool in the Struggle for Social Justice.” Along with the Institute for Women’s Studies, Women’s History Month’s Keynote address is sponsored by: The Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education, The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University Union Ideas & Issues, The Graduate School and The Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach.

Women's Studies is honored to have Elizabeth Martinez as our 2006 Women's History Month Keynote Speaker. This year's lecture will be March 2, at 7:00pm in the Tate Center Reception Hall on the University of Georgia campus. For more information contact Molly Moreland at 706-542-2846.