International Women s Week At Lee To Begin March 1 Monday, February 22, 2021 - by Eliza Souers, Lee University
Gloria Scott Richmond
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Lee University’s Cultural Diversity Committee will host a series of events during the week of March 1-5 celebrating International Women’s Week. Activities will include lectures, chapel services, and a poster competition.
IWD was first observed on Lee’s campus in 2008 and provides students the opportunity to join with the global community to recognize and celebrate the economic, political, and social achievements and contributions of women to society.
“At Lee, this meaningful celebration was founded on Genesis 1:27-28, ‘God created man and woman in his own image; together both man and woman are blessed,’” said Dr. ChoEun Lee, IWW subcommittee chair and assistant professor of collaborate piano and vocal coaching at the school. “COVID has brought us many challenges; however, i
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Phoebe Johns is a student on the Navajo Nation in Utah. Her mother purchased iPads for her and her brother Aiden, a student at Whitehorse High School, so they can stream video classes. While many students in Utah are back in the classroom now, that’s not the case on the Navajo Nation. Teachers and parents there have had to find creative ways to help students with limited internet access learn at home because of the pandemic.
Georgiana Simpson is an art teacher at Whitehorse High School in Montezuma Creek, Utah, a small community on the Navajo Nation. But since March, She’s been working from her home 20 minutes away in Bluff.