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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Tiffany Brown
Communications Associate
tbrown1@howard.edu
202.238.2330
Symposium to Address Mothering
Challenges Across Faiths and
Cultures
Pre-Mother’s Day Event
Focuses on Women and Girls,
Celebrates New Memoir
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Apr. 20)
- What are the greatest challenges
facing mothers today? How
are these similar or different
across faiths and cultures?
With the increasing feminization
of the workplace, what policy
changes at the micro/macro
levels would be most useful
in alleviating these challenges?
These are some of the issues
to be discussed at a pre-Mother’s
Day symposium at Howard University’s
Ralph J. Bunche International
Affairs Center, 2218 Sixth
Street, NW, Washington, DC
20059, May 6, from 2 to 4
p.m. 
The
discussion is centered on
a new parenting book,
How Will I Know My Children
When I Get to Heaven? by Grace
Virtue, a Jamaican immigrant.
Backed by a Ph.D. in the humanities,
Virtue explores topics like
faith, education, work-life
balance, single parenting,
body image, media usage, racism,
sexism, multiculturalism,
abortion, homosexuality and
other modern day concerns
impacting women and girls.
Drawn
from the nation’s major
faith/ethnic communities,
speakers include: Wanjiru
Kamau, Ed.D., President &
CEO, African Immigrant &
Refugee Foundation; Rev. Denise
King-Miller, Ph.D., Adjunct
Professor, Department of Afro-American
Studies, Howard University;
Rev. Julia Jarvis, Spiritual
Director, Interfaith Families
Project of Greater Washington;
Tamar Abrams, Communications
Director, Institute of Policy
Studies; Anita Nahal, Ph.D.,
Acting Director of International
Studies, Howard University;
and Mozna Khraiwesh, doctoral
student at Howard University.
The symposium is co-sponsored
by the Ralph J. Bunche International
Affairs Center, the Institute
of Policy Studies and the
Afro-American Resource Center.
For
additional information on
How Will I Know My Children
When I Get To Heaven?
visit www.gracevirtue.com.
For more information on the
symposium, contact tbrown1@howard.edu
or call 202.238.2330/ 202.238.2335.
Photograph by Kerry-Ann Hamilton
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