NetIP Chicago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To: "Shashi Menon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:32:32 -0700
Subject: NetIP Chicago- Weekly News, April 13
From: "NetIP Chicago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Netip Luncheon Series (Women-Focused)
Being Brave and Making Courageous Life Decisions: South Asian Women Seeking and Achieving Personal Liberation
Join the women of Netip-Chicago as we celebrate the splendor of being South Asian Women.
Has it been a while since you felt true joy? Do you still feel cultural and societal pressures to get married, although your parents have eased off? Are you pushing yourself into a career path that doesn�t make your soul sing? Yes, yes and yes? Then clear your calendar for this Sunday�s lively luncheon with guest speakers: Shruthi Reddy and Sapna Gupta. Shruthi and Sapna are young, highly accomplished, local, South Asian women who dared to embark on soul-challenging journeys through the valley of the unconventional. Spend the afternoon with friends pondering your personal walls and ways to chisel them down.
Speaker Bios:
Ms. Shruthi Reddy is the producer of �Survival on the Domestic Front: A Lost Story in Immigration", a documentary about battered immigrant women. She is also a community based lawyer focusing on low-income women and children, as well as a writer/journalist covering women�s issues for several publications including East West Woman and the Chicago Tribune Woman News Section. She was a founding director and now serves as an advisor to IWL (www.induswomenleaders.com) which seeks to empower women to reach their life goals by fostering mentorship and leadership in their personal and professional lives. She was also awarded the Asian Pacific American Women Leadership Institute (APAWLI) Fellowship in recognition of her corporate-community leadership. For her community impact project, she chose to empower victims of domestic violence by inspiring them to identify and seek help through stories shared by survivors.
Ms. Sapna Gupta is a writer and consultant for non-profit organizations in Chicago. She works on projects related to immigrants, globalization, and affordable housing. Before becoming a writer and consultant, she was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan and a consultant at the World Bank, where she worked on financing infrastructure projects in Western Africa. She is a member of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations Advisory Council for Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, serves on the board of Apna Ghar, and is a member of the South Asian Progressive Action Collective.
Sapna grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar before moving to Chicago's Devon Avenue in the 1980s. She holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a master�s degree in public policy studies from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Sapna and her husband Steve live in Boys Town with their dog Galen.
Day
April 18, 2004
Time
12:00 pm Buffet Lunch Speakers begin at 1:00pm
Place
Indian Garden Restaurant 247 E. Ontario St., Chicago
Cost
$10/members &
$15/non-members
For questions or concerns about this event please contact Ananya Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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