Women’s Equality Day Celebration

Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and other local organizations will hold a Women’s Equality Day Celebration to commemorate the 92^nd anniversary of women’s voting rights. The celebration will be held on Friday, Aug,24, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Engineering Building on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. The event is free and open to the public.

There will be a reception with elected officials and exhibitors at 8:30 a.m. and a panel discussion at 9:15 a.m. The keynote speaker for the panel is Susan Bucher, the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, and other panelists include Pam Goodman, former vice president of the League of Women Voters; Josephine Beoku-Betts, director of FAU Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Candace Britt, FAU Honors Student in the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Thomas Burns of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.