State Sen. Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) served as the keynote speaker at CSUSB’s 2020 Womxn’s Leadership Conference on May 22, where she offered words of encouragement, advice and personal anecdotes.
The conference, with the theme “The Future is Female: 100 Years of Voices,” will be held virtually Friday, May 22, and will feature a keynote from Senator Leyva, panel discussion and breakout sessions.
Mary Texeira, CSUSB sociology professor, brought attention to intersectionality and the overwhelming issues of sexual harassment at the Yotie Talks presentation “Exploring Race and Class in the #MeToo Movement.”
“Women After War: What We Learned From the Yazidis as an Ethnic Minority,” will be presented by Eda Erdener, a visiting scholar from Turkey, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 1, in the College of Education, room CE-105.
Brian Levin (criminal justice), Meredith Conroy (political science) and Barbara Sirotnik (statistics and supply chain management) share their expertise.
The summit, held in partnership with UC Riverside, featured a panel presentation, focusing on some of the successful CSUSB programs that have helped improve the community, as well as a question-and-answer roundtable discussion.
The publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, in its annual rankings, has listed Cal State San Bernardino as one of the nation’s leading universities in awarding degrees to minority students, specifically Hispanics.