Category Archives: Co-Sponsor events

3/19/22: Title IX: What you do not know CAN hurt you!

The seven branches of American Association of University Women of Santa Clara County will host an event (Hybrid) on March 19, 2022.  Young women are the target audience but all are invited to attend virtually.

Celebrate 50 years of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act passed in June of 1972.  Our event will describe how each gender was given equal rights to educational programs, activities, and financial assistance where federal aid is accepted.

Learn how Title IX has evolved over the last 50 years and what is still a “work in progress”.  Event includes discussions of sexual harassment, violence, and coercion as well as equality in Athletics.

Act using resources and strategies that direct on how to recognize sex-based discrimination in educational centers especially in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) based programs.  We will describe who is the correct resource to consult for help.

Additional details will be announced soon.

3/24 @ 1:00: The Changing West: Tempe Javitz presents Photographs by Jessamine Spear Johnson

The Changing West: Tempe Javitz presents Photographs by Jessamine Spear Johnson

Tempe Javitz is the granddaughter of Montana photographer Jessamine Spear Johnson (1886-1978). Since 2007, Tempe has worked to preserve Jessamine’s massive legacy, which includes 34 boxes of photos, in addition to diaries and genealogical notes. Tempe will tell us about her experience of conserving and cataloging Jessamine’s photos, while showing us Jessamine’s impressive techniques and her wide breadth of themes. Her photo collection encompasses portraits; landscapes; botanicals; historical sites; silhouettes she titled Skyliners; candid shots; and even still life compositions from the early 1900’s through the 1950’s.

Currently, Tempe is writing a book about Jessamine’s life and photography. Like her grandmother, Tempe has been an avid photographer since her grandmother gave her a camera when she was eight years old.

Topic: San Mateo AAUW’s March Program
Time: Mar 24, 2021 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

2/17/21 – a discussion with Shelley Silbert of Great Old Broads for Wilderness

San Mateo invites us to their discussion with Shelley Silbert of Great Old Broads for Wilderness.  Our branch has had a Zoom meeting with Shelley, and it was wonderful.  If you missed it, here’s another chance to hear her!  Contact Cathy Chowenhill for how to sign up.

Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands.

 

1/31/21 – The PDC presents a Conversation About Racism

On Sunday, January 31, 2021, from 2-3:30 p.m., a panel of experts on racism and local policy makers will share compelling stories and offer ideas for change in It’s a Problem Here, Too: A Conversation about Racism in Our Neighborhood.

Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Dean of Freshman at Stanford University and author of works on parenting will moderate the panel of experts on racism: Dr. Terri Givens, Nathasha Mejia,

Nehezi Roberts, and Lucinda Tinsman.
Menlo Park City Councilmember Ray Mueller will moderate the

policy makers/community leaders: Neysa Fligor, Los Altos City Council; Lisa Gauthier, East Palo Alto City Council; Davina Hurt, Belmont City Council; and Rev. Kaloma Smith, Pastor, University AME Zion Church and Human Rights Commissioner, Palo Alto.

Sign up here: bit.ly/pdc-blm-2021

1/20/21 — Asian Art Museum Docent lecture

AAUW San Mateo has organized a docent lecture on the Asian Lunar Calendar in preparation to greet the new lunar year and AAUW Palo Alto members have been invited to attend.

According to the Chinese calendar, 2021 will be the Year of the Ox, a highly valued animal in agriculture, characterized by honesty, hard work and perseverance! We will hear about centuries-old symbols and traditions, as well as food, customs and superstitions. It is believed that on the 5th day of the New Year the gods of prosperity come down from the heavens.

The ancient Chinese lunar calendar, on which Chinese New Year is based, functioned as a religious, dynastic and social guide. Oracle bones inscribed with astronomical records indicate that the calendar existed as early as 14th century B.C. when the Shang Dynasty was in power.

Chinese New Year typically begins with the new moon that occurs between the end of January and the end of February, and it lasts about 15 days, until the full moon arrives with the Festival of Lanterns.

This is a Zoom presentation on Wednesday, January 20th beginning at 1:00 pm.  A Zoom invitation will be sent to all members.