October 24
“Women´s Empowerment and Challenges in Guatemala”
MARIA PACHECO lecture & discussion on international development, sustainable self-empowerment, and her work with Mayan women artisans and others in Guatemala
Ms. Pacheco has recently been featured as “one of 12 visionaries igniting idealism into action” in the book Hearts on Fire (by Jill Iscol, with a forward by Bill Clinton).
She formed Kiej de los Bosques, an organization that works with artisans to develop their designs and expand their businesses, linking rural communities to markets around the world. Maria is also developing a program (for the UN) that will generate sources of income for communities living in or around natural World Heritage Sites, while protecting the surrounding ecosystem.
October 29
Hamdija Custovic of the local Bosnian Muslim community and regional representative of the Bosniak Congress of North America speaks on the Bosnian genocide
A memorial wall at Potocari cemetery with the names of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
November 15
“Defiance”: film-showing with discussion; part of International Education Week
December 3
Lecture and discussion with Holocaust survivor Suly Chenkin
