Sr. Thea Bowman Center for WomenSr. Thea Bowman Center for WomenDr. Shannon O'Neill, Director The Sister Thea Bowman Center for Women provides leadership and education to members of the Siena College community by promoting awareness about gender issues. It works to create a more informed and active campus community that takes part in its many service and advocacy opportunities. Through programming it promotes the personal, professional and spiritual development of women at Siena. Through its programming, the Sister Thea Bowman Center for Women addresses issues of social justice, wellness, service and advocacy. Some of our annual and ongoing events include:
Please feel free to contact the Women's Center at 518-782-6109. See our Events Page for upcoming events The Sr. Thea Bowman Center for Women presents… A Week Without Violence 2009
November 9-13th
All week will we be in SSU tabling with information and opportunities to take action against violence!
Monday - Domestic Violence Awareness and Action Day
Stop by our table in SSU and sign the “These Hands Are Not for Hurting” banner to be displayed in SSU all week.
Voices from the Frontline – Karla Digirolamo, chief operating officer of Unity House and an internationally known expert on domestic violence, has been working to stop domestic violence for 30 years.
Talk @ 7pm in Serra West
Tuesday – International Violence Day
Combating the Myth that Sex with a Virgin Cures AIDS in Zimbabwe – Teresa Dangwa from the Dangwe Initiative with talk about her work with AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe.
Talk @ 7pm in RB202.
Wednesday- Sexual Assault Awareness Day
Showing of the film Until the Violence Stops at 6pm in Serra West.
Thursday– Self-harm Day
Display is SSU of negative images in the media that normalize self-harm and eating disorders.
Special dinner and showing of the film Real Women Have Curves with America Ferrera. Email soneill@siena.edu to sign up.
Dinner and movie at 6pm in Serra West
Friday - Peace Day
Sign the Bring Back the Peace Wall petition in SSU!
Sr. Thea Bowman, the granddaughter of slaves, was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi on December 29, 1937. Thea was reared as a Methodist until at age nine when she asked her parents if she could become a Catholic. The next year her parents enrolled her at Holy Child Jesus School staffed by the Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. The life and work of the sisters so impressed her that, at 15, she joined them by entering Rose Convent, LaCrosse, Gifted with a brilliant mind, beautiful voice and dynamic personality, Sr. Thea shared the message of God's love through a teaching career of 16 years after which the bishop of Jackson Mississippi invited her to become the consultant for intercultural awareness. In her role as consultant, Sr. Thea encouraged people to communicate with one another so that they could understand other cultures and races. Sr. Thea fought evil, especially prejudice, suspicion, hatred and things that drive people apart. She fought for God and God's people until her death in 1990 of bone cancer. * biographical information from the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration - FSPA News
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Wisconsin. There she was given the name of Thea.