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Resources for Grads : Women of Color Initiative
The Women of Color initiative is a workshop-based, daylong event, dedicated to addressing contemporary issues facing Women of Color. Our goal is to share information among women of color on ways in which they can improve themselves individually and collectively in the community, home, and professional world.
WOCI Annual Programs
- "Do You Have My Back? Bridging Racial Divisions Among Women on Campus"
A program established in Spring 2001 after the tremendous success of a two-part series of workshops addressing the intersection of racism and sexism among students and staff on campus.
- The Empowering Women of Color Conference
The conference is a workshop-based, daylong event, dedicated to addressing contemporary issues facing Women of Color. Our goal is to share information among women of color on ways in which they can improve themselves individually and collectively in the community, home, and professional world. EWOCC was founded in 1984 by a group of undergraduate students as their semester project for a DE-Cal (Democratic Education at Cal) class. The project, entitled "Women of Color in the United States," received an overwhelmingly positive response, and students decided to organize another event with the help of the Graduate Assembly (GA), Berkeley's graduate student government. In 1986, with the formation of the GA's Graduate Women's Project (GWP), it was decided to institutionalize this event and make the conference and annual project under the auspices of the GWP. EWOCC was one of the first conferences to present women of color with an opportunity to address the racial, class, and gender issues facing American Indian, African American, Asian American, and Chicana/Latina women. These occasions have offered ways for women of color to build stronger bases of social and political support. As a result of the continuing support from both the campus and the wider community, EWOCC is now recognized to be one of the longest running conferences in the nation that addresses the needs and concerns of women of color.
Past conference themes have included
- * 1985 Empowering Women of Color
- * 1987 Standing At The Crossroads: This Bridge Called My Back
Featuring: Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga
- * 1990 Taking Back: Taking Back/Private Truths/Public Lies A One-Day Conference Dedicated to the Work of Delores Huerta
Featuring: bell hooks
- * 1992 Rising Up Live!
Featuring: June Jordan, Alice Walker, Angela Y. Davis, Diane Reeves, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gina Pacaldo, Lulintang Arts
- * 1993 A Litany For Survival... In memory of Audre Lorde and All Our Foremothers
Featuring: Cherrie Moraga and Barbara Christian
- * 1995 Reaping Fruit and Throwing Seed
Featuring: Angela Davis and Chrystos
- * 1996 Sojourn Within: Defining the True Essence of Our Power
Featuring: Elaine Brown and Ninotchka Rosca
- * 1997 Uprising: Women's Work is Never Done
Featuring: Nikki Gioovanni, Merle Woo, Nelia Sancho, Huanani-Kay Trask, Maria Elena Martinez-Torres, Alba Aguilera, Krishanti Dharmaraj
- * 1998 Celebrating Daughters of Diversity
Featuring:Sister Souljah, Norma Alarcon, Katie Quan, and Eva Patterson
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* 2001 Girl to Goddess...
Youth to Power
Featuring: Ursula Rucker
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* 2002 Women of Color in Media
Featuring: Gina Prince-Bythewood and Felicia D. Henderson
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* 2003 Fighting for Liberation!
Expanding Our Notion of Revolution
Featuring: Yuri Kochiyama
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* 2004 The Politicization of Women
in Higher Education
Featuring: Sonia Sanchez
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* 2005 Confronting Power: A Century of Struggles and Movements
Featuring: Elaine Brown, Lakota Harden, Dolores Huerta, Susan Taylor, Angela Oh
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* 2007 Our Bodies, Our Souls: Sistahood, Health and Healing
Featuring: Mililani Trask
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
woci@ga.berkeley.edu
510.642.2876
Links
http://ewocc.berkeley.edu/
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