Looking ahead to an exciting
New Year
The Peace and Reconciliation – Jerusalem 2012 class is excited to welcome alumna and current Alumnae Board president Krysta Svore ’97 to the team. Including Krysta as part of this group is a natural next step in creating an opportunity that is inclusive and spans many of our school’s constituencies while serving the needs of the current students. “I am so excited and honored to be a part of this wonderful program,” Krysta notes. “I had the pleasure of visiting Israel last year and found it to be one of the most inspiring places I have ever been. I am anxious to visit once again and see the Holy Land in a new light and though the girls’ eyes.” As the Peace and Reconciliation program evolves, we plan to continually assess its impact on the students, its partners abroad and the local and global community. The student leadership element of the program is an exciting one. We hope it will set a precedent for future programs that are sustainable and that offer students opportunities to try out leadership capabilities. The program includes three students who made the trip last year: Emma Murphy ’12, Shireen Nori ’12 and Haley Griese ’14. Each of these students has taken on the role of student leader, participating in class and facilitating peer learning with this year’s group of students. Conversation Series The Women as Global Leaders Parent Conversation Series featured a talk in November by Rosetta Lee of Seattle Girls’ School. To access Rosetta’s presentation, please follow this link: https://sites.google.com/site/sgsprofessionaloutreach/forest-ridge-gender-biaspresentation Thank you to those who attended our first two conversations! We will kick off the 2012 New Year with a showing of the movie Finding Kind on Jan. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lee Theatre. RSVP to kishapa@forestridge.org. There will be a moderated discussion afterwards and light refreshments. Please stay tuned in January for information on programs for the spring that will be open to students, families and friends! I wish you a warm and healthy holiday season!
Kisha Palmer Program Director, Women As Global Leaders
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