The Cultural Diversity Office of Education presents “CIRCLES OF HOPE” with Ladoris Payne-Bell on March 31st in Hermann Lounge from 4-5pm. This lecture is presented in conjunction with Human Rights Month. LaDoris Payne-Bell is an internationally respected speaker on women’s issues and grassroots approaches for effecting change. Her cross-cultural group dynamics have gained her international recognition as a skilled trainer in areas of women’s economic empowerment, fostering principled partnerships and strategic alliances across race, class, culture and professional groupings. She also trains women in grassroots community development approaches.
Payne-Bell is an articulate communicator with a charismatic vision. She is founder of WomanSpirit, Inc., and the Imani Community Development Corporation in St. Louis, Mo. Her work focuses on sustainable development, economic opportunity and human rights issues. Paine-Bell has pioneered and lobbied for programs that enable community women to save and own assets, operate businesses, choose and train for long- term employment and design community self help programs that strengthen neighborhoods and recycle financial and other resources.
She has been a guest speaker at the World Trade Organization in Seattle last December, the Bejing+5 conferences in Geneva and the UNIFEM conference at the United Nations in New York last June. Payne-Bell works with NGO’s at the United Nations to create healthy local economies and to share sustainable economic practices with governments and interested parties. She has hosted peer-exchange programs in St. Louis with women form Kenya, Zimbabwe, India and Germany.
Brought to you by the Office of Cultural Diversity Education and funded by SGA.