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| 9:00 - 10:00 AM |
| I Am My Brother’s Keeper -- Dr. O’Dell Owens, M.D., M.P.H., President, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Owens would like for his epitaph to read, “He made a difference.” Dr. Owens will share concepts and ideas about character and building identity using excerpts from his life’s story and personal observations. A native Cincinnatian he earned his M.D. degree and his Masters in Public Health at Yale University Medical School, and completed his internship and residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale. Dr. Owens then accepted a combined position at Harvard Medical School, as a clinical instructor in the department of OB/GYN at Harvard Medical School, and a Fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility for two years. He returned to his native Cincinnati in 1982 to establish the first division of reproductive endocrinology in the department of OB/GYN at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. In 2004, Dr. Owens was elected Hamilton County’s Coroner. In August, 2010, Dr. Owens was selected by the board of trustees of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College to be president. |
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| 10:20– 11:15 AM |
| The Fluidity of Gender -- Linda Stein, Artist-Activist explores gender roles and stereotypes. Using sculpture and video she reacts to notions about empowerment, sexism — past and present — and the heroic female form. These forms are a continuation of her sculptural series Knights which she began in 2002 as a response to childhood fears and a search for female symbols of protection. They are designed to scramble gender expectations and to merge opposites— female/male, soft/strong, defensive/aggressive. Stein’s leather-clad figures are joined by more colorful and whimsical acrylicized-paper torsos that feature iconic Wonder Woman motifs. Stein continues to ponder the super-power’s masculine strength that seems equally balanced with feminine attributes of compassion and justice. She thinks about, “Wonder Woman stopping the bad guys without ever killing”. Stein holds degrees from Pratt Institute and Queens College, New York. She has numerous solo and group exhibitions to her credit and is represented by Flomenhaft Gallery, New York and Longstreth Goldberg Art in Florida. Her archives are at Smith College and her website is www.LindaStein.com |
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| 11:15 - 12 Noon |
| The Value of Knowing Self -- Willis “Bing” Davis, Artist, Educator and REACH Co-coordinator. The more you know about yourself, the greater the opportunities you have to more fully appreciate yourself and others, particularly those others who, on first glance, may appear different than yourself. The life-long journey of you getting to know yourself can be one of life’s inexpensive pleasures, even if there is a little pain along the way. The more you know yourself, the greater the opportunity you gain to influence the level of joy in your own life and service to others and often these two, joy and service, are intertwined. Great happiness can be found in service to others. |
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