The Importance of Educating Women and Girls: A Conversation with President Gee

Visions of Justice: Northern Uganda and Appalachia

E. Gordon Gee, president of WVU, and Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe will discuss the importance of access to education for women and girls in the Global South. They will also explore the gendered social and economic challenges that impact education and share ways to overcome these challenges. The conversation will be moderated by Gregory Dunaway, dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. This event is co-sponsored by the Honors College.

This event is part of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences'  Visions of Justice series marking Sister Rosemary's visit to WVU in March 2020.

Read a Q&A with Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe.

About Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe

For the last 30 years, Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus based in Juba, South Sudan, has answered the call to serve the least among us from the epicenter of a bloody and violent civil wars that decimated northern Uganda and South Sudan. Armed with only a sewing machine, Sister Rosemary openly defied Joseph Kony and the rebel soldiers and commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in their 20-year reign of terror. Since 2002, Sister Rosemary has enrolled more than 2,000 girls who had been previously abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army or abandoned by their families. Anyone who steps foot on the grounds of the Saint Monica campus in Gulu, Uganda, will instantly recognize there are few other places on earth where a community of women learn to become self-reliant and change agents for peace and prosperity. Sister Rosemary has taught these brave girls to make their own clothes, grow their own food, learn a valuable trade, and show mercy to others that are less fortunate.