100 Voices Leading for Change
Onalie Ariyabandhu
Monday, 28 Sep 2015 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Iowa State graduate Onalie Ariyabandhu is a Social Change Entrepreneur of United Nations Population Fund in her home country, Sri Lanka. She will discuss its new "100 Voices Leading for Change" social change initiative aimed at mobilizing national youth networks to combat gender-based violence in Sri Lanka. Ariyabandhu earned her BSc. in economics, international studies and environmental studies from Iowa State, where she was president of the International Student Council. She and her family survived the horrific tsunami that hit Sri Lanka in 2004. She later wrote an award-winning essay about the experience.Cosponsored By:
- Asian American Studies Program
- History
- International Student Council
- International Studies Program
- Political Science
- University Library
- World Languages & Cultures
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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