{"id":219,"date":"2016-10-19T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=219"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:13:30","slug":"empowered-at-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2016\/10\/19\/empowered-at-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowered at The Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Hayley Holloway ’17, Staff Writer<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Services and Gender Resource Center recently finished a social media campaign about empowerment.<\/p>\n

Done through Facebook and Instagram, the Humans of New York-styled campaign ran from Sep. 21 to Oct. 1. Tamara Baldwin, a sociology major and head of the WSGRC house, came up with the idea for the campaign. It is the first part of the center\u2019s campaign: Empower, Inspire, Change.<\/p>\n

\u201cA goal was just hoping that through people\u2019s seeing and hearing these different ways that people feel empowered would somehow empower them,\u201d Baldwin said.<\/p>\n

Many different people participated in the campaign, including students, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my goals was to get people who weren\u2019t as known on campus, and people that I didn\u2019t know personally,\u201d Baldwin said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to get the people that we always see or that we all know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those who were featured were asked \u201cWhat does empowerment mean to you?\u201d and \u201cWhen do you feel empowered?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main goal was to show the diversity in empowerment,\u201d Baldwin said. \u201cKnowing the different ways that people can be empowered is incredibly important.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Services and Gender Resource Center received positive feedback from the campaign, both from those featured and those who saw it. Jennifer Phung, a sophomore biochemistry major, lives in the WSGRC house and was featured during the campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt grateful that I was asked to be in it, and I found it really interesting how a lot of people had different thoughts on empowerment,\u201d Phung said. \u201cSome people defined empowerment as something that they do for themselves, and then others answered that they thought empowerment was how you treated other people. I thought that was interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Services and Gender Resource Center\u2019s next campaign will be called \u201cThis is What a Feminist Looks Like.\u201d It was inspired by a campaign that was done after the WSGRC was first founded.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that will be really cool to bring back this year, six years later,\u201d Baldwin said.<\/p>\n

To see the empowerment campaign or the upcoming campaign about feminism, check out the Women\u2019s Services and Gender Resource Center Facebook page<\/a> or its Instagram account @WSGRC_lvc.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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