Human rights activist Kerry Kennedy Cuomo to give Women’s Society Adele Starbird Lecture

Kennedy Cuomo’s work in the field of human rights began in 1981, when she initiated an investigation into alleged abuse of El Salvador refugees by U.S. immigration officials. Since then, she has been devoted to the promotion and protection of basic rights, covering such legal and social justice issues as freedom of expression, child labor, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, ethnic violence and women’s rights. In the past twenty years, Kennedy Cuomo has led more than three dozen human rights delegations to more than 20 countries

Fiction Writer Charles Baxter will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 27, for the Writing Program Reading Series at Washington University

Baxter is the author of three novels, most recently The Feast of Love (Pantheon, 2000); and four collections of short fiction, including A Relative Stranger (Viking Penguin, 1991) and Believers (Vintage, 1998). He has published a book of essays on the craft of fiction, Burning Down the House (Graywolf, 1997), as well as three collections of poetry, and also has edited three anthologies of fiction and essays.

Washington University School of Social Work to inaugurate the Alliance for Building Capacity April 9

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work will inaugurate its program, Alliance for Building Capacity (ABC), with a celebration on April 9 from 5-6:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge. Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Ph.D., Washington University Distinguished Visiting Scholar and professor emerita at the University of California at Berkeley School of Social Welfare, is the featured speaker, and will speak on “Cultural Competency and Agency Practice: Challenge or Opportunity.”

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