February 16, 1995: Vol26n17: Leadership conference Saturday will focus on women's issues

UB will present a leadership conference for women, "Building on Our
Legacy: A Vision for the Future" on Saturday, Feb. 18 in the Student
Union. The all-day conference will cover women's history and the
issues affecting women on campus and in their careers.
	Focus will be on three major areas, leadership, women's issues
and women's history. Among topics to be covered are juggling multiple
roles, being a change agent, health care issues, harassment, feminism
in the 21st century, marketing your leadership experience,
assertiveness and self-esteem, risk taking, motivation, women of color
and women as leaders.
	Keynote speaker for the conference is Rebecca Walker, founder
of the Third Wave Direct Action Corporation, a national nonprofit
organization devoted to cultivating young women's leadership and
activism.
	Considered one of the most audible voices of the young women's
movement and recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 Future
Leaders of America, Walker speaks on young women's leadership and the
Third Wave of Feminism at colleges and conferences across the U.S. and
Canada.
	Walker was born in Jackson, Miss., to an interracial couple
who married in defiance of anti-miscegenation laws. She was raised in
San Francisco and New York City and attended Yale University, where
she graduated cum laude in 1992.
	 A writer and contributing editor to Ms. Magazine since 1989,
Walker has also been published in Harper's, The New York Daily News
and The Black Scholar. Her writing discusses such issues as
reproductive freedom, domestic violence, sexuality and civil rights.
	Sponsors of the conference are Division of Student Affairs
Office of Student Life, Student Association, SA Women's Coordinator
and Council for People of Color.
	The agenda includes exhibits and resource tables, an address
by Walker on "Becoming the Third Wave," a luncheon, legislative update
and a panel of mentors discussing "Reflections on Leadership."
	For more information, call the Office of Student Life at
645-2371.