State Senate candidate Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, professor of Legal Studies at Quinnipiac, will moderate a coffee and conversation forum on women’s health rights Saturday morning, 10 a.m. at the Bijou Theatre, 275 Fairfield Avenue.
She will moderate with comments from U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal. The event is free.
Featured speakers include Melissa Berton, Academy Award winning director of the documentary “Period. End of Sentence.” The Oscar win ignited a global conversation about “period poverty and menstrual equality.” She will discuss the importance to “women’s health of having access to sanitary pads especially given the current derision of Governor Walz as ‘Tampon Tim.'”
Hugo Slim, formerly Head of Policy at the International Red Cross, will discuss his new book “Humanitarianism 2.0,” which argues that aid organizations must anticipate the climate-change fueled disasters in the future.
Cheyney Ryan, co-founder of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights, will discuss the transformative impact of human rights education.
