Campus Staff journeyed to UC Davis to hear the nationally award winning speaker Mia Mingus speak to students in recognition of Pride Week and Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Mia’ s presence generated a great turn out amongst students as she addressed the challenges of intersecting identities and oppression as they relate to violence against women. Mia Mingus is a queer disabled woman of color, South Korean transracial adoptee, organizer and one of the Co-Executive Directors of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now (formerly Georgians for Choice) in Atlanta, Georgia. Through her work on disability, race, reproductive justice, gender, sexuality, and transracial adoption, she discussed the urgency for oppressed communities to work together and build alliances for liberation.
Click on the YouTube video below to hear Mia’s message as she receives the 2008 Creating Change Award at the National Conference on LGBT Equality.
Althea served as the Program Coordinator for 6 years at Tougaloo College for the first special initiative awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, Project STOP NOW!, that worked with HBCU's. Ms. Hart holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Tougaloo College and a Master's of Science degree in Community Counseling from Jackson State University. Over the past seven years she has worked in various capacities countering violence against women such as volunteer for the Catholic Charities Rape Crisis Center and Sims Transitional Shelter for Women and Children; committee member of Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault Women of Color Caucus and the Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault SAC Taskforce. Presently, she is the Training and Resource Coordinator at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) Campus Program providing technical assistance to recipients of the Office on Violence Against Women Grant to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus.
