Stay in Touch with the WLA, WLA Mother's Day Campaign, and More Announcements!

[Harvard Women's Law Association]

No WLA events during exams but some WLA and other announcements and items of interest! 

   
WLA Announcements: 
1. Stay in Touch with the WLA This Summer! Share Your Feedback! 
2. WLA Mother’s Day Campaign 
3. Congratulations to the WLA Outline Bank Winner & Link to All the Outlines! 
  
General Announcements: 
1. Women Speak Out – Thurs., April 28, Kennedy School 
2. State Responsibility to Eliminate Violence Against Women Expert Panel – Thurs., April 28, 12-1:30, Northeastern Law School 
3. Support Hollaback! 
4. Patterson Belknap Webb &Typer LLP Message from Diversity Committee 
5. Apply for the Cooley LLP’s Diversity Fellowship 
  
WLA Announcements: 
  

Stay In Touch with the WLA This Summer!  Share Your Feedback! 

The WLA would like to stay in touch with returning students while they are working this summer and graduating students as they head out into the real world.  Please complete the appropriate 30 second survey below.  This information will be used to support WLA career advising and alumni networking efforts as well as improve the WLA for future years. 
For Returning Students: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdUNEZ0MlNiaEhqUHlNOEthb19jdWc6MQ

For Graduating Students: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDI3bDd0eU9jdXhLaVZYR1Y1eDBHRlE6MQ

Mother's Day - Join 100 WLA Members Giving Back 

As Mother's Day approaches (May 8th), the WLA is encouraging you to honor your mom by giving the gift of a healthy, safe childbirth to women everywhere.  Donate in your mother's honor to the UNFPA here:  http://www.unfpa.org/support/. 

$20 buys clean birthing kits for 12 pregnant women in emergency situations; 

$65 is the average cost for a Cesarean section that can save the life of a mother and child. 

The WLA 's goal is for 100 Members to make improving maternal health their 2011 mother's day gift!  Pledge to be one of the 100 at: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRDanFDSUN6ZUlOUTBqenNwbVlyUmc6MQ 

  

WLA Outline/Exam Bank Winner & Link 

Congratulations to Tracy Leigh Branding, winner of our WLA Outline/Exam Bank submission raffle!  Thanks to everyone who submitted an outline or exam in the last few weeks.  Good luck with exams and remember to check out the WLA Outline/Exam Bank available on the WLA website (http://hlsorgs.com/wla/), under Resources. 
  
General Announcements: 

Women Speak Out 

Does it bother you that only 22% of senior faculty, 27% of junior faculty, and just 30% of speakers at the Kennedy School are women? Do you want to do something about it? If so, give us just a few minutes of your time at WOMEN SPEAK OUT and help us show how much women have to say. Pipeline is campaigning for 50% women speakers at all of the Kennedy School centers. As part of this important campaign, we are aiming to mobilize 100 women to speak on 28 April. We will create a pipeline of speakers and supporters in the courtyard, and for two hours straight women will SPEAK OUT - for a minute each - in the heart of the Kennedy School, in celebration of women’s voices, and in protest against women’s under-representation. We are asking you to join the pipeline, for anything from a few minutes to the full two hours, and to SPEAK OUT at this memorable event, on any subject that inspires you: politics, hobbies, poetry, stories, research interests or rants about spring exercise. Whatever you have to say - and however controversial you want to be - we want to hear it! Sign up to join us now at http://pipelineproject.tumblr.com. Or contact: Hannah Peaker (Hannah...@hks.harvard.edu), or Caroline Pearce (Carolin...@hks11.harvard.edu). 
  

State Responsibility to Eliminate Violence Against Women Expert Panel 

Join Dean Emily Spieler of Northeastern University School of Law, the Directors of the Due Diligence Project, Janine Moussa and Zarizana Abdul Aziz and our distinguished guests: Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (South Africa), Geeta Ramaseshan (India), Vivienne Wee (Singapore) on Thursday, April 28, 2011 from 12 to 1:30 pm at Northeastern University School of Law, 65 Forsyth Street, Dockser Hall Room220. Sponsors: Due Diligence Project in conjunction with the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE). 
  

Support Hollaback! 

Support Hollaback, an organization that works to stop street harassment of women, and get published in a magazine! Hollaback is sponsoring an essay contest for grad students/college students on street harassment. More info available at: http://www.ihollaback.org/blog/2011/04/13/hollaback-essay-contest/ 
  

Patterson Belknap Webb &Typer LLP Message from Diversity Committee 

Please see attached letter and brochure about PBWT’s message on diversity and women at the firm. 
  

Apply for the Cooley LLP’s Diversity Fellowship

Law school students who are fulltime 1Ls in the 2010-2011 academic year are invited to apply to the Cooley LLPs Diversity Fellowship. Award recipients will receive a paid Summer Associate position following their 2L year and an award of up to $15,000 to assist with law school tuition. Full details about our Fellowship can be found at the following link: http://www.cooley.com/files/uploads/students/diversity-announce-2011.html. And for more information about Cooley LLP, please visit www..cooley.com.

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