Reynolds Celebrates Women’S History Month

Reynolds Community College lately recognized Women’s History Month alongside a celebration entitled “Empowerment: Connecting the Past, Present together with Future” inward the Workforce Development Conference Center located on the Parham Road Campus.

 

The celebration, sponsored yesteryear the college’s Multicultural Enrichment Council, featured established women from our community sharing their paths to success together with immature women from Virginia Union University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Richmond together with Reynolds Community College talking most their hereafter plans together with goals.

The computer program featured a luncheon alongside keynote speaker Del. Jennifer McClellan, Virginia House of Delegates.  Other consequence speakers included Christy Coleman, President together with CEO of the American Civil War Center at Tredegar, Allison Bogdanovic, Executive Director, Virginia Supportive Housing, Patience Salgado, Social Impact Artist together with Kindness Worker, Paula Peters together with Tracy Gilpin of Reynolds Community College, Wanda Hernandez of Virginia Commonwealth University, Wei Kang of the University of Richmond, together with Jasmin McKay of Virginia Union University. Reba Hollingsworth of “CBS half dozen This Morning” served every bit mistress of ceremonies for the 5th year.

“Helping to comport my parents’ legacy is making certain every youngster inward Virginia, whether they grow upward inward Gilpin Court, or Galax or Fairfax County, that they bring access to a high lineament together with gratis world didactics together with they bring the resources together with the confidence together with hence they tin last whomever they desire to be,” noted McClellan. “Somewhere out at that spot is a fiddling daughter that is simply a nerdy every bit me, simply every bit curious every bit me, that perchance does non bring the same resources I had. My chore is to laissez passer on it to her.”

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