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Women of Color Awards
At the eleventh annual Women of Color luncheon last month, three Penn
women were cited for their personal and public achievements to enhance the
community:
- Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott, associate professor of nursing and
director of the Center for Urban Health Research at Penn, who along with
her husband, Princeton Psychology Professor John Jemmott, launched a four-year
project on HIV prevention called Be Proud! Be Responsible! Strategies
to Empower Youth to Reduce Their Risk for AIDS, being implemented as
a na-tional model by the Division of Adolescent and School Health of the
Centers for Disease Control;
- Estella de Llanos, Penn Law '98, who has been an intern for
the past two years with Community Legal Services, assisting the Hispanic
elderly and disabled clients who were at risk of losing their SSI benefits;
and
- Lashanta Johnson, College '98, who as research assistant to
Professor Lani Guinier has coordinated projects that promoted a national
converstaion on race. She has also been a volunteer at the People's Emergency
Center, where she facilitated parent-child programs.
Almanac, Vol. 44, No. 28, April 7, 1998
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