Initiatives for Women at The University at Albany
and The Sage Colleges
present
Winter Forum
Tuesday, February 25,
1997
Alumni House
University at Albany
Women, Work And
Poverty: An Agenda For Action
Welcome
President Karen R Hitchcock, University at Albany, State
University of New York
President
Jeanne Nets, The Sage Colleges
Moderator
Allison Seymour, Weekday co-anchor of WXXA's FOX News at 10.
Panelists
Chrys Ingraham, Ph.D.,
M.P.A. Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Sage
Colleges. Academic focus social inequality. Co-founder
and co-director of the Allies Center for the Study of
Difference and Conflict and co-directs the Helen M. Upton Center
for Women's Studies at The Sage Colleges. Co-edited an anthology,
"Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's
Lives" to be published by Routledge, May 1997.
Shirley Jones, Ph.D. Distinguished Service Professor
of Social Welfare at the University at Albany. Works with national
and state organizations addressing rural issues. For the past twelve
years, focuses on rural families and rural communities and economic
development.
Kathleen Gormley,
Ph.D. Associate Professor in Education at The Sage
Colleges. Focuses on literacy instruction, particularly
culturally responsive assessment and teaching. For the past six
years, Dr. Gormley has been actively involved with children and
families living in federally subsidized housing adjacent to the
Troy campus of The Sage Colleges.
Vivien Ng, Ph.D. Chair of Women's Studies Department at
the University at Albany. Former President of National Women's
Studies Association. Author of Madness in Late Imperial China: From
Illness to Deviance and numerous articles on history of sexuality
in China and lesbian and gay studies in the U.S.
