The Official Newsletter of the Women’s & Gender Studies Department “You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.” –Jane Galvin Lewis Women’s and Gender ANNOUNCING THE ANNUAL MINX AUERBACH LECTURE Studies Department IN WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES Stevenson Hall, 320 University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 NORMA RAMOS Phone: 502.842.8160 “Trafficking in Women” Fax: 502.852.4421 March 22, 2012 Chairperson: 6:00 p.m. Dr. Nancy Theriot,
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[email protected] Norma Ramos is a longstanding public attorney and social justice activist. As an eco- feminist, she links worldwide inequality and Graduate Assistants: destruction of women to the destruction of the Erin Phelps, Teaching Assistant environment. She writes and speaks Jennifer Stith extensively about the sexual exploitation of Alisha West women and girls as a core of global injustice, and has appeared on such shows as Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, as well as national radio programs. Ramos was an early environmental justice activist. She works to build an environmental movement that addresses inequalities based on race, gender and class.