{"id":3983,"date":"2018-10-26T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:49","slug":"swv-empowers-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3983","title":{"rendered":"SWV Empowers Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sisters With Voices is the newest organization at RC and is a group that strives to build\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bonds of sisterhood and empower its members. This exclusively female organization, presented\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and enabled by The Office of Multicultural Affairs, is designed for women to hear other women.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is a safe space that hopes to enable attendees to relate to each other, relax and then release\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">some of their stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sisters With Voices was created by Sophomore Danielle Petersen and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Senior Radiance Mack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Petersen elaborated on her vision for the \u00a0group stating \u201cThe group was inspired by one that Mrs. Juliet Lowery started in her first years at Roanoke, I was simply\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">privileged that she passed the torch to myself and Radiance Mack. Sisters With Voices (SWV) is a girls group founded upon the beliefs that underrepresented young women should revive,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">empower and lift each other up. We hope to create a safe haven for the young women of RC\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where we can have open discussions about what it means to be a young woman in the past, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what it means to be one in the present and what it would mean for young women in the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sisters With Voices will hold its first meeting tonight, Oct. 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chalmers Hall\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">common room.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sisters With Voices is the newest organization at RC and is a group that strives to build\u00a0bonds of sisterhood and empower its members. This exclusively female organization, presented\u00a0and enabled by The Office of Multicultural Affairs, is designed for women to hear other women.\u00a0It is a safe space that hopes to enable attendees to relate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/RC-OMA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}