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Human Rights Scholars to Visit Stone Center
Human rights scholars Grace Chang and Margo Okazawa-Rey will visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a two-day residency March 18 and 19.
The residency is hosted by Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History and co-sponsored by the Carolina Women’s Center.
Chang and Okazawa-Rey’s activities will include speaking to women’s studies students and leading a March 19 roundtable discussion on trafficking, migration, labor and the proliferation of militarism. The free public discussion will be at 7 p.m. in the Stone Center’s Hitchcock Multipurpose Room.
Chang, an associate professor in the feminist studies department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is a writer and activist in struggles for immigrant, labor and welfare rights of migrant women and women of color in the United States.
Okazawa-Rey is a professor in the School of Human and Organization Development at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara and professor emeritus at San Francisco State University. Her work examines connections between militarism, economic globalization, religious fundamentalism and impacts on women.