MOSAIC 2009

Each year, students across all academic disciplines come together for MOSAIC, a community-wide gender conference. The objective of MOSAIC is to offer provocative sessions aimed at exploring gender constructions in unconventional ways. This year's theme, "Gender Exposed" takes a look at some gender myths and stereotypes. Sessions are led by faculty members and advanced graduate students from Carnegie Mellon as well as area colleges and universities. Thie year, we are excited to have Jessica Valenti as our keynote speaker. She is the founder and executive editor of feministing.com and author of gender-focused books, including Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters. She's edited several books on women's issues and was named one of ELLE magazine's intelligentsia. Ms. Valenti will present her vision of feminism and the importance of disregarding stereotypes and myths.

The first 35 Carnegie Mellon community members to register will receive a free copy of Jessica Valenti's "He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know".

MOSAIC 2009 Planning Committee

Andrea Cinkovic, Committee Chair
Rowshan Palmer, Advisor
Jamie Boschan
Lenny Chan
Lucas Christain
Merri Ebel
Rebecca May
Dina Megretskaia
Jamie Rossi
Jordan Rubenstein
Mallika Sahay
Victoria See
Amy Shields
M. Shernell Smith
Nora Tarano
Anthony Velazquez
Hannah Wirtshafter

MOSAIC is truly a campus-wide effort and would not be possible without the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, Student Life Office, Student Senate, Women's Leadership Institute (WLI), Graduate Student Assembly (GSA), Carnegie Mellon- Qatar, Women@SCS, AB Lectures as well as all of our volunteers.

For more information, please contact: Rowshan Palmer