women rising!

African Women's Development Fund USA: Saving Our Future Health Summit  The Institute is pleased to partner with AWDF USA for its Saving Our Future Health Summit. Featuring leading Pan-African women's health activists and researchers and the presentation of their New Global Citizen Leadership and Award and a Social Change Technology Seminar   Saving Our Future Health Summit Saturday, September 14 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM St. James Cathedral 65 E. Huron Street Chicago Tickets: $30 Register today!   The summit includes: AWDF USA's Social Change Technology seminardesigned to introduce social media and crowdfunding for community organizing and fundraising Keynote speech by Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olpade, University of Chicago professor, cancer researcher, and physician Expert panel and audience discussion with: Dr. Richard David, Co-Director of the Neonatal intensive care unit at Stroger Hospital; Dr. Jackie Copeland-Carson, Executive Director AWDF USA; and H.E. Bisi Adeyele-Fayemi, First Lady of Ekiti State, Nigeria  Inaugural presentation of AWDF USA's New Global Citizen Award         For more information about AWDF USA

Fellows/Institute  News and Updates

Nambi E. Kelley at Alycone Festival, Chicago Hank Willis Thomas exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Tamale Sepp upcoming performances Film Screening: Soft Vengence: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

Institute Fellow/Goodman Theatre Fellow Nambi E. Kelley's play The First Woman   to be performed at theAlycone Festival September 6-28, 2013.      Nambi E. Kelley's play, The First Woman, will be performed as part of the Alycone Festival presented at the Halycon Theater in Chicago,September 6-28, 2013.   Get your tickets today!         Focusing on Naki and Nana, a mother and daughter, and their struggles for peace; The First Woman is the journey of every man, woman, and child's search for inner and outer peace in a world where peace is the hardest of challenges.