In celebration of CNMI Women\u2019s Month, the Marianas Young Professionals, or MYPros, is inviting the public to participate in the \u201cMarch for H.E.R.S.\u201d on Saturday, March 25, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm at the American Memorial Park theater on Saipan. <\/p>\n
In line with this year\u2019s theme, \u201cEmpowering Women to be Leaders for Change,\u201d this event aims educate attendees on women\u2019s issues through a series of brief presentations and open discussions from a wide variety of experts on health, economic security, representation, and safety, or HERS. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn my experience, most people are in favor of the idea of gender equity, but don\u2019t really know what that looks like, why it\u2019s important, or how to achieve it. Even women, maybe especially women, struggle with this. There are many layers to these topics. We\u2019re all still learning,\u201d said event co-organizer and MYPros secretary Kaitlyn Neises-Mocanu. \u201cThe MYPros are hoping that through open discussions and information sharing, we can empower attendees with knowledge and build confident advocates for gender equity.\u201d <\/p>\n
Participants will use what they learned from the presentations to design signage for the subsequent march through Garapan. Light refreshments and sign-making materials will be available. This event is free and open to the public. People of all genders and ages are encouraged to attend. The event venue and march route through Garapan are handicap accessible. <\/p>\n
MYPros is an independent nonprofit organization of young professionals founded in February of 2015. Check out mypros.org or follow us on Facebook at Marianas Young Professionals. Questions? Email Sheila Babauta (sheilababauta@gmail.com) or Neises (kneisesm@hawaii.edu). (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In celebration of CNMI Women\u2019s Month, the Marianas Young Professionals, or MYPros, is inviting the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16094,401,4755,67],"class_list":["post-248864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-email-sheila-babauta","tag-facebook","tag-marianas-young-professionals","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}