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International Women's Day
International Women's Day is celebrated annually on March 8th.
The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity (CSGGE) formally known as the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are co-hosted our eighth annual event, “11 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
The event featured 11 speakers from across our university and community. Each speaker had 5 minutes to tell the story of a woman who made important contributions to the scholarship, discipline and/or broader academic community life.
International Women's Day Celebration
March 8, 2025
Levis Faculty Center
International Women's Day Event Recording
Click link below for video:
Remote Media URL
SPEAKER LIST
Traci Barkley
Director, Sola Gratia Farm
Recognized woman: Suzanne Simard, a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
David Chih
Director, Asian American Cultural Center
Recognized woman: Yukiko Okinaga Hayakawa Llewellyn, U of I Student Affairs Administrator
Japanese American Incarceration Camp Survivor
Wojtek Chodzek-Zajko
Dean, Graduate College
Recognized women: Eva Chodzek-Zajko
W. Brooke Elliot
Josef and Margot Lakonishok, Professor in Business and Dean, Gies College of Business
Recognized woman: Dorothy Litherland Armstrong, Professor in the Department of Accountancy, Associate Dean of Gies Business
Cindy Ingold
Associate Professor, University Library
Recognized women: Katherine Sharp, the first Director of the Library School at the University of Illinois
Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo
Associate Professor, Health and Kinesiology
Recognized woman: Frida Kahlo, Mexican Artist
Alejandro Lieras
Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Recognized woman: Mery Whiton Calkins, American Philosopher and Psychologist and The First woman president of the American Phycological Association
Shari Mickey-Boggs
Senior Associate Chancellor for Human Resources, Illinois Human Resources
Recognized woman: Amelia Earhart, American Aviation Pioneer, The First woman To Fly Across The Atlantic Ocean
Zahra Mohaghegh
Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Recognized woman: Marie Curie, Polish and naturalised French Physicist and Chemist, The First Woman to Win the Nobel Prize
Isabella Reyna Sauer
Undergraduate Student, Department of History
Recognized woman: Sara Ahmed, British-Australian Writer and Scholar, the Author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook and A Complainer's Handbook
Bhakti Verma
Graduate Student, College of Education
Recognized woman: Varsha Sahasrabuddhe & Soonrita Sahasrabuddhe
