Feminist activist and scholar Margo Okazawa-Rey will present a lecture “Living Under Israeli Occupation,” Monday, November 13, 2006 at 4:15 p.m., in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons at Scripps College. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Intercollegiate Women’s Studies of The Claremont Colleges (909) 621-8274.
Based on her recent experience in Palestine, Professor Okazawa-Rey will address the daily existence of Palestinian women living under Israeli occupation, the impact of the U.S. and Israeli-led boycott of Hamas leadership, and U.S.-based activists addressing the conflict. She will also discuss her personal experience living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as an American woman of color.
For nearly the past two years, Okazawa-Rey has been the Feminist Research Consultant at the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, with offices in East Jerusalem and Ramallah, where she is assisting in establishing a community-based feminist research unit and teaching feminist research methods to local women. Okazawa-Rey’s work in Palestine is an extension of her longstanding commitment to anti-militarist activism and to activist scholarship. She also is a professor at Fielding Graduate University and professor emerita of social work at San Francisco State University.