The Gender and Sexuality Center at East Stroudsburg University will be celebrating Womxn\u2019s History Month throughout the month of March. The X in womxn is to focus on the importance of intersectionality within our student\u2019s identity development and to highlight the dynamic identities of womxnhood.<\/p>\n
As part of the month-long celebration,\u00a0Sofia B. Pertuz, Ph.D. will be ESU\u2019s Womxn\u2019s History Month keynote speaker. The keynote address, \u201cFinding Your Voice When It Can\u2019t be Loud\u2026Just Yet,\u201d will be delivered virtually, via Zoom, on Thursday, March 18 at 6 p.m. The event is free to the public.<\/p>\n
Dr. Pertuz is a\u00a0diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, assessment, and critical incident management in higher education and inclusive excellence. Pertuz is the founder and lead DEI strategist for Mainstream Insight LLC and serves as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that protects the emotional health and prevents suicide for young people. She has been an invited speaker to international audiences on topics in leadership, change management, social justice, and LGBTQ advocacy, and has delivered keynotes in Spanish and English. Pertuz completed a bachelor\u2019s degree in organizational communication from SUNY New Paltz and earned her master\u2019s and Ph.D. in higher education leadership, management, and policy from Seton Hall University. Pertuz holds a Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion for HR from Cornell University.<\/p>\n
Dr. Pertuz\u2019s address will be accessible via Zoom, https:\/\/esu-online.zoom.us\/j\/92825549190<\/a>. For additional information, contact\u00a0Ariel Tucci, interim director of the Gender and Sexuality Center by calling 570-422-6981 or email\u00a0atucci@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Gender and Sexuality Center at ESU will be celebrating Womxn\u2019s History Month throughout the month of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":20665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20667,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20658\/revisions\/20667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}