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Celebrating 30 Years of Service

Women’s Center Annual Luncheon Presents:
Voices of Change - Beyond the Silence

January 26, 2006

Join the Women’s Center of San Joaquin County on March 23rd, 11:30-1:00 at the Civic Memorial Auditorium for their 26th Annual Luncheon event. This year’s event will give special tribute to the Women’s Center founders and celebrate the kick off of the agency’s 30th anniversary.

Each year, this sell out event brings together over 600 community leaders, citizens, businesses and organizations in support of the agency’s critical services that reach over 24,000 women, children and men victims of domestic violence and sexual assault annually. This event provides an educational and awareness venue on the issue and prevalence of family violence and abuse in our own communities and is a major fundraiser for the agency.

This year’s keynote address will be given by Zulema “Ruby” White Starr, Program Manager in the Family Violence Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. Ruby will inspire and educate the listeners. She focuses on examining and addressing such issues relevant to children exposed to domestic violence, resilience, and cultural competence. She serves as a national advisory committee member for the Women of Color Network, is a member and immediate-past president of the Board of Directors of the Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence, and volunteers for the Committee to Aid Abused Women, facilitating the Teen Speaker’s Bureau and conducting women’s groups in the emergency shelter. Ruby has extensively shared her personal experience with thousands of people and to the media throughout the Country in hopes that her experiences will lead to better practices and outcomes for both battered women and their children. She has appeared twice on the nationally syndicated daytime talk show “Leeza”.

Mistress of Ceremonies is Judith Chambers, Special Assistant to the Vice President for University Advancement at the University of the Pacific. Prior to this position, she was Vice President for Student Life at UOP for 27 years. During her 27 years in Student Affairs, she built a nationally recognized program. She received the two highest awards given by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators for her leadership in this arena. She was the first woman invited to join the then 75 year-old Stockton Rotary Club and is currently a member of the Business Leadership Summit Executive Leadership Committee, is President of Delta Health Care, the Empress of WHIM, a member of KVIE San Joaquin Advisory Committee and is on the Board of Directors for Stockton Beautiful. Judy was appointed by President Ronald Regan and George Bush to service on the Board of Directors for the Student Loans Marketing Association Board (SALLIE MAE) and was also appointed by Governor Peter Wilson to represent California on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Judy has received several other State Congressional Federal and Academic Appointments.

For information on Sponsorship packets and individual tickets ($30.00), contact Leslie or Christina at 941-2611 or via e-mail at ddwcsjc@aol.com.

Contact:

Leslie Heier, Development Director at 467-2334, or
Christina Gusman, Development Assistant at 467-2333
941-4963 Fax
ddwcsjc@aol.com