Women's Symposium to be Held on Fort Wainright

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – In observance of Women’s History Month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Office will sponsor a women’s symposium here March 30.

“Tomorrow’s Leaders Working Together as One – Embracing Cultural Change and Strengthening Our Environmental” is the theme of the 4-hour seminar, which features a slide show on prominent civilian women in addition to special speakers and presentations.

Doug Mills, chief of Diversity and Civil Rights for the Alaska Region of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service will discuss the dynamics of privilege.

Col. Maria Gervais, commander of the U.S. Army Environmental Command, is the keynote speaker.

The symposium will end with a panel of experts addressing various issues pertaining to leadership in the workplace. The panel includes Mills; Gervais; Seema Salter of the Installation Management Command Equal Employment Opportunity Office and Mae Marsh, Fort Wainwright Equal Employment Opportunity manager.

The symposium will be from 8 a.m. to noon at the Last Frontier Community Center. For more information, call 353-9156 or 6917.

The symposium is open to all – active duty military, civilians, women and men. Attendees who do not have a Department of Defense decal must stop at the visitors’ center at the main gate with driver’s license, proof of insurance and vehicle registration for a vehicle pass.