Women’s Studies Program

Junior Wins Borough’s Denim Day NYC Writing Competition

May 3, 2013 1:23 pm School of Natural and Social Sciences, Sociology Dept, Student Awards, Students, Women's Studies Program

Shabel Castro, a junior in the Macaulay Honors College at Lehman, is the Bronx winner of the 2013 Denim Day New York City writing competition, titled “Telling the Truth About Sexual Violence.”

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Human Rights Activist to Speak Feb. 16 on Plight of Migrants

February 7, 2012 6:34 pm Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies, Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies Dept, Women's Studies Program

The Lehman community is invited to hear a talk on Thursday, Feb. 16, by Rev. Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, a leading advocate for the rights of migrants traveling through Mexico to the U.S. Rev. Solalinde, a Catholic priest in the town of Ixtepec, Oaxaca, will speak on “Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Addressing the Needs of Central American Immigrants in Mexico.”

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