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tidings: Maryam Monsef, founder and chief govt of ONWARD and Canada's first minister for girls and gender equality, would be the keynote speaker for the Worldwide Girls's Day Luncheon at WorldDenver.
With roughly 900 company, the March eight occasion is likely one of the largest of its sort within the nation. It’s led by Maria Gonzales, vp/growth for Defend Our Winters, and Jenna McMullin, vp/communications for Lockheed Martin Area.
Lockheed Martin is the presenting sponsor of the day. Raymond James Funding Administration is the principle sponsor of the speaker.
Along with Monsef's speak, the luncheon can also be a chance for WorldDenver to honor the Girls's Bean Challenge for its longstanding efforts to encourage girls by way of social enterprise and Dr. Margaret “Migs” Muldrow, founder and board chair of the Village Well being Partnership, which works to make motherhood safer in rural Ethiopia.
Monsef was 11 years previous when she arrived in Canada as a refugee from her native Afghanistan. “In opposition to all odds, she escaped struggle and survived poverty and displacement to turn out to be the primary Afghan Canadian to serve in Canada's parliament,” in keeping with a press launch selling the $120-a-ticket occasion. She served in Parliament from 2015 to 2021.
She additionally created Canada's first full-fledged division of girls and gender equality, the place, below her management, Canada was acknowledged as a world chief in sexual and reproductive well being and rights, funding in home and worldwide grassroots girls's organizations, and for its cross-sectoral response to COVID-19. .
In 2018 and 2019, she was acknowledged by Apolitical as one of many prime 20 world influencers for gender equality, together with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle Obama and Malala.
Tickets are actually on sale and may be bought by calling Lauren Osga at 720-330-9287 or emailing her at lauren@worlddenver.org.
In regards to the group: WorldDenver's mission is to strengthen and increase Colorado's group of worldwide engaged residents and organizations by way of training, cross-cultural alternate and private interplay with worldwide leaders, professionals and college students. WorldDenver has organized the celebration of Worldwide Girls's Day since 2013.
Web site: worlddenver.org
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