Might 15, 2025
“Convention on R.E.S.T. isn’t just a dialog—it’s a name to motion,” mentioned YWCA South Hampton Roads CEO, Michelle Ellis Younger.
YWCA South Hampton Roads, the world’s oldest and largest multicultural ladies’s group, is making ready to honor ladies’s voices, resilience, and management throughout its 4th Annual Convention on R.E.S.T. (Racial Fairness and Social Transformation).
The June occasion will have fun the theme, “What Concerning the Girls?” as attendees collect with the group forward of Juneteenth to acknowledge ladies’s essential function in advancing justice and fairness, whilst they face on a regular basis challenges.
“In a time of unprecedented world change, this yr’s query, ‘What concerning the Girls?’ calls for pressing consideration,” a press launch said. “Girls’s rights stay at a essential crossroads, as hard-fought progress faces new challenges within the type of coverage rollbacks, financial disparities, and chronic gender-based violence. From the erosion of reproductive rights to the widening wage hole, the stakes have by no means been larger.”
The Convention on R.E.S.T. will kick off with a Legacy Awards Breakfast the place Hampton Roads leaders might be acknowledged for his or her contributions to shaping a extra equitable future for all. 2025 honorees embody: Delceno Miles, president and CEO of The Miles Company; Vivian Oden, vp for Fairness and Inclusion on the Hampton Roads Group Basis; writer and survivor advocate Kemba Smith; and Virginia Organizing.
This yr’s keynote speaker, best-selling writer Mikki Kendall, will handle attendees with illuminating views drawn from her literature, advocacy, and work as a thought chief. A $1,000 Racial Justice Scholarship might be awarded to Norview Excessive Faculty rising senior York-Web page Seaton.
“The Convention on R.E.S.T. isn’t just a dialog—it’s a name to motion,” mentioned Michelle Ellis Younger, CEO of YWCA South Hampton Roads. The occasion expands on YWCA South Hampton Roads’ ongoing mission to drive significant change by eliminating racism, advocating for the essential wants of survivors of sexual and home violence, and appearing as a supply of empowerment for ladies and households dealing with disaster.
Safe your spot as we speak and meet YWCA South Hampton Roads at Norfolk State College, June 11, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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