[bioundgrd] Fwd: THE FUTURE OF TITLE IX – October 3, 2017 4pm – MIT Walker Memorial Bldg 50

[Janice Chang]

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Subject: THE FUTURE OF TITLE IX – October 3, 2017 4pm – MIT Walker Memorial Bldg 50

THE GENDER/RACE IMPERATIVE: The Future of Title IX

Tuesday October 3rd, 2017
Doors open at 3:30PM
Presentation starts at 4:00PM
Walker Memorial – Building 50

Open to the public, no registration required

Event website: http://www.rle.mit.edu/anita-hill/

Hosted by:
Muriel Medard - Cecil H. Green Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT

Anita Hill - MIT Martin Luther King Fellow, University Professor of Law, Public Policy and Women’s Studies, Heller Graduate School of Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Guest speakers:
Catherine Lhamon, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Former Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
Deborah Slaner Larkin, Chief, Advocacy Officer at the Women’s Sports Foundation
Fatima Goss Graves, Director of the National Women’s Law Center


The Gender/Race Imperative aims to revive awareness of the broad capacity of Title IX, the crucial law mandating equal education opportunities for women. We hope it will kick start inquiry to foster legal, policy, and social reforms that enable success in schools and workplaces for girls and women of all races and economic backgrounds. To engage and educate MIT and the broader Boston area community on the role of Title IX in education, particularly for STEM, MIT brings engineers and other scientists together in conversation with lawyers and social scientists to develop multidimensional strategies for promoting equity in STEM.

Lhamon, Larkin, and Graves are authorities on Title IX, each of whom brings a different perspective on how this civil rights law works and how to strengthen its effectiveness.  In this first in a series of programs, the speakers will familiarize the audience with the many ways which Title IX insures that no person “shall be excluded from participation, in be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”  As well, each presenter will provide an assessment of Title IX’s influence going forward.


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