University of Utah Women's Week

Here's an important event announcement that was included in the Salt Lake City Mayor's Office of Diversity and Human Rights weekly news:

The University of Utah will host Women’s Week, Powerful Beyond Measure: Women, Work & Education, March 19-23. Salt Lake Community College President Cynthia A. Bioteau will deliver the keynote address on Wednesday, March 21 at noon in the Olpin Student Union Ballroom. A panel presentation, “Refugee Women and Their Challenges in Work and Education,” will be held at noon in the Hinckley Caucus Room in Orson Spencer Hall on Thursday, March 22. Other lectures, discussions and film screenings will be presented throughout the week. A full list can be found at http://www.diversity.utah.edu/events/womensweek/2012/.

NAACP Conference: What everyone needs to know about employment rights

I attended the Saturday morning and afternoon portions of the three-day NAACP Tri-State Conference here in Salt Lake City at the Little America Hotel on September 24th, 2011. The group of conference attendees was much smaller than I anticipated. Although KSL advertised the conference as open to anyone, I gathered that most of the people there were those in leadership positions representing their NAACP branches.

Image taken from the web page advertising the NAACP Tri-State
Conference.

Some details.

The workshops were conducted in a room I estimated to be about 30x40 feet. Attendees came and went throughout the day, but there were usually about 35 people seated in the conference room at once. I observed that there was an equal number of men and women. Attendees and presenters varied in age, anywhere from 20 to 80 years old. Although the NAACP is historically an African American civil rights organization, they are interested in a wide variety of civil rights causes, and