Here’s a recap of last weeks meeting:

We watched Emilie Aries TED talk: “The Power of Saying No”.

We discussed personal sustainability and work/life balance. Some related issues that came up:

• Michal Moore’s “Where to Invade Next“
• work/vacation balance and parental leave in different countries compared with America- here’s a short article in the Atlantic examining this
• Evergreen’s culture and self-reflection helps us to examine priorities
• “Don’t blame yourself, it’s structural and systematic”
• The film (and book) “Wild” – inspirational!

We also discussed a number of potential group reads at our last meeting including. Let’s reply in comments with your first and second choice from this list OR an alternative idea for a common read!:

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed the World by Rachel Swaby

The Mind Has No Sex by Londa Schiebinger

Delusions of Gender or Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine

Sexual Selections Marlene Zuk

Finally, we started to discuss the WISE group becoming an official Evergreen Club through Student Activities- a few students did some research and expressed interest in helping to organize the club. Thanks so Emily, Tessa, Lauren and Mike for expressing interest and gathering information. Here is some additional info that Emily posted on our Facebook site:

“In order to make W.I.S.E. an official club at Evergreen we are required to see an advisor with at least four people and sign up and attend a registration workshop and fill out some minor paperwork, after that we’re official! Tessa (who doesn’t have a Facebook) gathered and gave this information to me to share and she and I have been thinking of being at least temporary leaders for this club. If you would also like to do so please let others know so it can be figured out who has the time for organizing and running this group. The next registration workshops are: Friday feb 24 @ 2-4pm, Tuesday Feb 28 @ 2-4pm, Thursday March 2 @ 2-4pm, Friday March 10 @ 2-4pm, and Tuesday March 14 @ 3-5pm. Leave a comment saying which days would work best for you to attend the workshop-we could also wait until our next meeting on March 1st to discuss this further.”

Looking forward to seeing everyone next week!