Thuong Tran, copresidenta de URGE y estudiante de tercer año en pintura, discute los detalles de la conferencia institucional de liderazgo de justicia reproductiva que es este próximo sábado en el Memorial Union. La conferencia, organizada por URGE, se trata de injusticia reproductiva, según Tran." />
Thuong Tran, copresidenta de URGE y estudiante de tercer año en pintura, discute los detalles de la conferencia institucional de liderazgo de justicia reproductiva que es este próximo sábado en el Memorial Union. La conferencia, organizada por URGE, se trata de injusticia reproductiva, según Tran.
The Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute will be taking place this October and is being held by Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity by the Emporia State Chapter.
“This conference is mainly for people who are just joining URGE,” said Thuong Tran, co-president of URGE and junior painting and printmaking major. “To learn a little bit more about what reproductive justice is and what that work looks like, and how there are still things that are preventing people from having the agency to do whatever they want with their bodies.”
The conference will include numerous workshops, as well as informational sessions about Reproductive Justice and taking leadership in these areas, according to Tran. They have also had speaker panels in the past.
“A lot of them are actually about, ‘How do we become good leaders and good advocates for these types of issues?’” Tran said. “‘How do we develop these skills and also connect with other people who are interested in reproductive justice?’”
People interested in attending needed to register beforehand, as there is a limit allowing only around 50 people to attend. This can be found on URGE at ESU’s facebook page which gives information on the fee to register, and included a link to the registration form.
“There is a twenty-five dollar registration fee, but it is able to be waived,” Tran said. “There is a scholarship from the national organization and people who are in need of that financial aid.”
The RJLI conference will be hosting up to five people from each of the URGE chapters in Kansas in a few rooms of the Butcher Education Center on Oct. 28 and 29. Non-members of URGE are still welcome, as long as they have applied and registered to the event.
“It just sounded really fun and exciting the way they described it and like you would learn a lot and it would be with people who are likeminded,” said Kelsey Myers, treasurer of URGE and junior interdisciplinary studies major. “Which would be a nice comfortable zone to talk with people about subjects that you care about.”