Morandah Garrett Was A Featured Student Panelist For The Women's Empowerment Symposium

2017 Apr 6

Morandah Garrett Was A Featured Student Panelist For The 2017 Women's Empowerment Symposium at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. Garrett is a Psychology major from Washington, DC.

The panelists talked about their own personal experiences of feminism and what it meant to them. The panel was moderated by Emily Rice '17.

The goal of the Women's Empowerment Symposium and the Women's Empowerment Initiative is to cultivate confidence and courage by fostering the achievements of women. It strives to empower current and future leaders, and to provide learning, networking, and recognition oppurtunities for students, faculty and staff. The symposium program aims to support women but not to the exclusion of others. They hope to represent a spectrum of identities while providing information and oppurtinies the empower and strengthen the Champlain College community, regardless of gender identity.

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Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and more than 60 online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 381 Colleges: 2017 Edition. Champlain College is featured in the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" for 2017 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Champlain was named one of the "Most Innovative Schools" in the North by the U.S. News and World Report's 2017 "America's Best Colleges and #91 in the overall list of "Best Regional Universities in the North. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.