Women’s and Gender Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Chicago Area Women’s and Gender Studies Job, Internship, and Volunteer Fair

Hosted by Roosevelt University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Friday, October 26, 2007

AUD Congress Lounge, 12:00 PM-4PM

Roosevelt University's Women’s and Gender Studies program, along with other women's and/or gender studies programs in Chicago, is sponsoring an internship, job, and volunteer fair, from 12-4 p.m., which will feature 20+ local organizations that address issues related to women, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other social justice issues. The event will also include an alumnae panel focused on what you can do with a degree in women’s and/or gender studies, and workshops on resume writing and interviewing, applying to graduate school, presenting your work at professional conferences, and student organizing. For more information, contact Ann Brigham, Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at abrigham@roosevelt.edu or 312.341.3725.

Participating Organizations include:

ATHENA International
Website: www.athenainternational.org
Company Overview:  Women's international leadership organization. Our mission is supporting, developing and honoring women leaders, inspiring women to achieve their full potential thus creating balance in leadership worldwide.

Chicago Abortion Fund
Website: www.chicagoabortionfund.org
Company Overview:  Through our direct services, Chicago Abortion Fund provides low-income women with financial resources to pay for their procedures. Our advocacy program provides those same women with the opportunity to come back to the table with free leaders trainings around reproductive justice and health.

Chicago Area CodePink
Website: www.codepinkalert.org/chicago
Company Overview:  CodePink is a woman-initiated organization working for peace with justice globally and locally.

Chicago Books to Women in Prison
Website: knikki.wordpress.com
Company Overview: Chicago Books to Women in Prison is a volunteer collective working to distribute books free of charge to women in prison nationwide. We are dedicated to offering women behind bars the opportunity for self-empowerment, education, and entertainment that reading provides.

Girls on the Run - Chicago
Website: www.gotrchicago.org
Company Overview:  Girls on the Run - Chicago is a non-profit prevention program that encourages preteen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through running. Our curricula address all aspects of girls' development - their physical, social, mental, social and spiritual well-being.

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Website: www.icirr.org
Company Overview:  CIRR is dedicated to promote the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.In partnership with our member organizations, the Coalition educates and organizes immigrant and refugee communities to assert their rights; promotes citizenship and civic participation; monitors, analyzes, and advocates on immigrant-related issues; and, informs the general public about the contributions of immigrants and refugees.

In These Times magazine
Website: www.inthesetimes.com
Company Overview:  In These Times is a national monthly magazine of news and opinion. In These Times is dedicated to informing and analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice; to providing a forum for discussing the politics that shape our lives; and to producing a magazine that is read by the broadest and most diverse audience possible. The late Sen. Paul Wellstone, one of the first subscribers to In These Times, put it this way: “Meaningful democracy cannot survive without the free flow of information, even (or especially) when that information threatens the privileged and the powerful. At a time of growing media concentration, In These Times is an invaluable source of news and information that the corporate media would too often prefer to ignore.”

McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum
Website: www.freedommuseum.us
Company Overview:  The McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum inspires generations to better understand, value and protect freedom. Through interactive exploration, visitors gain a greater understanding of the struggle for freedom in the United States and the role the First Amendment plays in society.

Mercy Housing Lakefront
Website: mercyhousing.org
Company Overview:  Mercy Housing Lakefront (MHL) is the Chicago area business center of Mercy Housing, Inc., a national non-profit, affordable housing developer.  MHL owns and manages 15 properties serving 2000 men, women and children each day.  In addition to providing clean, safe, affordable housing, MHL provides services including case management, employment, training and education programs and leadership development activities to our tenants.

Planned Parenthood / Chicago Area
Website: www.plannedparenthood.org/chicago
Company Overview:  Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area (PP/CA) provides reproductive medical services, educational programs and counseling to women, teens and men.

Sarah's Circle
Website: www.sarahs-circle.org
Company Overview:  Sarah's Circle offers daytime supportive services in a welcoming safe refuge to women who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. We respect each woman's individuality and offer her the opportunity to make positive changes in her life. We work toward ending homelessness by provides options, services and advocacy, meeting the needs of women who come through our doors.

TEFL Institute
Website: www.teflinstitute.com/
Company Overview: Teach English around the World: TEFL Institute is an international TEFL training organization dedicated to providing professional training, expert advice and courteous customer service with top quality online, weekend, and in-person TEFL training courses.

The Topaz Club
Website: www.thetopazclub.com
Company Overview:  The Topaz Club is a social/support sisterhood for biracial/multiracial women who are of African/African-American descent and are mixed with other heritages.  The Topaz Club operates as both an online and an in-person social/support network.

Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Website: www.vcnv.org
Company Overview:  Voices for Creative Nonviolence focuses upon work to end all forms of economic and military warfare against Iraq. It was created in 2005 and continues the work of the organization Voices in the Wilderness. It works amongst displaced Iraqis living in Jordan. It also organizes legal and extralegal forms of lobbying. The Occupation Project is a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience focused upon Congress and seeking an end to funding for the Iraq war. As a social change organization, Voices engages in research, public education, and lobbying and conducts workshops in the are of nonviolence. Between 1996 and 2004, those engaged with Voices traveled to Iraq to bring medicine to ordinary Iraqi citizens in a campaign to challenge the economic sanctions then in place against Iraq.

Windy City Media
Website: www.windycitymediagroup.com
Company Overview:  Publishers of various LGBT media including Windy City Times, Nightspots, Windy City Queercast, identity and www.windycitymediagroup.com

YMCA of Chicago
Website: www.ymcachgo.org/content/home.aspx
Company Overview:  The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago is about serving diverse families and communities. The YMCA is equipped to serve a range of complex, contemporary family needs through our 21 fitness centers, 4 year-round resident camps, 7 human service centers, 5 Single Room housing residences, 4 Senior Housing centers, 1 Supportive Housing for young adult males, and 1 Center for the Arts. The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago is also one of the largest providers of licensed child care in the mid-west. For 150 years, the YMCA has been serving the diverse needs of each community through programs ranging from child care, affordable housing, street intervention, sports and fitness, and various programs for children, teens, adults and seniors. Through quality programs that are affordable, the YMCA has made a significant presence in the Chicago area by building strong kids, strong families and strong communities.

YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Website: www.ywcachicago.org
Company Overview:  The YWCA USA is a women's membership movement nourished by its roots in the Christian faith and sustained by the richness of many beliefs and values. Strengthened by diversity, the YWCA draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women's growth, leadership, and power in order to attain a common vision: peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people. The YWCA will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism wherever it exists and by any means necessary.YWCA Metropolitan Chicago is committed to providing women with the support and tools needed to transform their lives, be confident in their choices and make valuable contributions to their communities. We promote racial justice, embrace diversity, and inspire personal development both within our organization and throughout all our services. Our vision is to eliminate racism and empower women.

 

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