Social
5:00

Book Discussion: Honolulu by Alan Bennert
5:15
Founders Room

Discussion Leader: Jan Paulsen

Traveling to Hawaii as a “picture bride” in 1914, Regret finds not the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, but a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Honolulu is a spellbinding tale, beautifully told.

Dinner
6:00

American Refugee Committee: Rebuilding Lives
7:00
Presidents’ Hall

Speaker: Lauren Bienkowski, Protection and Gender-based Violence Technical Adviser for the American Refugee Committee

The Minnesota-based American Refugee Committee works with refugees around the world by helping them regain control of their lives. Bienkowski graduated from Tulane University with masters degrees in social work and international public health. She has managed protection programs for ARC, UNICEF, and the International Rescue Committee in Uganda, Sudan, Thailand, and Liberia. She will tell us about how her team collaborates with local communities to promote safer environments and functioning social services for vulnerable women and children. -Mary Ellen Nielsen