The 16th Annual Summer Symposium: Women, Justice, Activism
June 27-29, 2023 | 9am-4pm
We are back to our roots this year, with a focus on topics that students will not see in their textbooks. Join us to learn about hot button topics from local and international experts. Students will also be joined by artists, poets, musicians and social entrepreneurs that will teach them how they can channel activism to make a difference. Students will also work on a group project on a topics of their choice designed to help the students create a program, event, or fundraiser on one of the following themes that the participant chooses on their application.
Topics include:
• Historical and rising tension in Bosnia
• Native American boarding schools
• Unrest in Ukraine
• Media literacy past & present
• Sustainability in Erie County
• Celebrating African American Women in Social Entrepreneurship
Open to any incoming 9th grader through graduating senior, the program will be held for five days at Erie 1 Boces Center. Students who sign up will have the opportunity to hear internationally-known human rights experts, take part in hands-on activities and field trips, and learn the skills they need to make an impact on the community, nation, and world.
Crime Victim Services Program Coordinator Sharon Francis will be a featured Speaker:
Sharon Francis is a member of the wolf clan, with the Seneca Nation of Indians. She has been providing services to members of the Haudenosaunee for well over a decade. Her passion is helping her communities to heal from personal, intergenerational, and historical traumas by providing programming and opportunities to heal. She strives to bring awareness and advocacy to her people. Sharon is currently the Program Coordinator with the Seneca Nation of Indians, Crime Victim Services Department. She has helped organize dozens of events on territory and in local schools for National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and other MMIW causes. She also orchestrated an Every Child Matters Walk with hundreds of community members to show support for survivors of the residential school system, and remembering those community members lost to it.
Read more HERE
For more information: info@academyforhumanrights.org
