Events
Sigal Lecture 2019
Date and Time
Monday, March 11, 2019 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Description
Join us this year as we welcome Kinza Khan, a domestic violence attorney in Chicago. Kinza works with HEART to help educate and empower Muslim women. She will be speaking on "Interfaith Leadership in the 21st Century"
Kinza Khan is a native Chicagoan, born and raised. She has been a speaker with Alumni Speakers Bureau at Interfaith Youth Core for several years, speaking at various events, schools, and congregations. As her full-time work, Kinza is an attorney at Life Span, an organization committed to helping survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. She also serves as an educator and trainer for Heart Women & Girls, an organization that provides education about and advocacy for issues of sexual health and sexual violence in Muslim American communities. Kinza completed her undergraduate studies in International Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and then went on to receive her Juris Doctorate at DePaul University College of Law. She has worked in issues of child welfare, women's rights, and domestic violence, and is passionate about these causes as well as interfaith work and community development. As much as she enjoys speaking in court, Kinza prefers speaking in panels and workshops, and about her own experiences, interfaith identities, and today's societal issues.
This year's lecture will take place on Monday, March 11, 2019 from 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in room 2204 of GVSU's Kirkhof Center on the Allendale Campus.
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