International Women's Day Celebration 

Monday, March 8, 2010

5:30 P.M. - refreshments; program beginning at 6:00 P.M.

Cambridge City Hall Annex

344 Broadway, 2nd Fl. community room

Cambridge, MA 02139  

In honor of the 200th birthday of feminist and international activist, Margaret Fuller, the Cambridge Women’s Heritage Project will host a panel of Cambridge women to discuss their local and international work through various organizations.   

Joan von Mehren, the author of Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller, will lead the panel in her discussion of Margaret Fuller’s years in Italy and activism during the Italian Revolution.   

Bishnu Pariyar, founder and director of the human rights organization, Empower Dalit Women of Nepal (EDWON), will follow with a discussion of EDWON’s educational and micro-finance programs to socially and economically empower “untouchable” women.  Patricia Montes, executive director of Centro Presente, will round out the panel by speaking about that organization’s role in supporting self- determination and self-sufficiency of the Latin American immigrant community in Massachusetts.  

The Cambridge Women’s Heritage Project (CWHP) is dedicated to developing programs to recognize past and present contributions of Cambridge women from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. The CWHP’s web site, www.cambridgema.gov/cwhp, was designed to honor Cambridge women and women’s organizations and to assist women’s history researchers.