Thank you to everyone who attended and to our volunteers!
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Vision
The Alexa McDonough Institute for Women, Gender, and Social Justice is a hub of feminist energy, action and research that seeks to achieve equity and improve lives in their complexity and multiplicity, locally and globally.
Mission
The Institute lives its vision by undertaking through collaboration and communication, the following activities:
-Research and Inquiry that coordinates, supports, and builds capacity among feminist researchers and creative artists at the Mount, other campuses, and in community groups and organizations. In addition, the historic partnerships represented by Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies and by Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal/Revue d'etudes sur les femmes are fostered.
-Action to secure new partnerships, access funding, and opportunities in the areas including but not limited to community development, gender, race, sexuality, class, ability and social justice.
-Support through program offerings in a variety of time slots and formats. For example: films, volunteer childcare during events, assistance with advocacy. student training, and linking action in the broader community to research.
-Education by creating and offering programs, and courses in related areas, and providing gender perspectives in all disciplines. For example: gender and peace-building, feminist research methodologies, research skills for the community/NGO sector, feminist leadership skills, anti-oppression theory and practice.