When I attended the annual MLK awards luncheon Jan. 18 on the University of Oregon campus, I felt a warm sense of pride for my co-workers at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, where I have worked since the day Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009. This year the director of CSWS, a law professor from Jamaica, and the associate director, an English professor from India, were honored for “their efforts to spark changes that help bring about the civil rights leader’s vision of a more just and tolerant community.”
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Written by Alice Evans, coordinator of the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, this op-ed was published March 3, 2017, in the Eugene Register-Guard.