Adjuncts are doing awesome things! At the end of the 2011 Spring Semester, an all-adjunct group quickly coordinated, funded and organized a production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. A special shout out to: LeeAnn Thomas, Organizer, Laurean D. Robinson, Publicity Manager, and Leisha Anderson and Deannna Fleishmann, Stage Directors. These awesome adjuncts dedicated a tremendous amount of time, effort and money to this event.
The Vagina Monologues, has been performed in colleges and communities all over the world since 1996, and is part of V-Day organization’s global efforts to end violence against women and girls in the world. V-Day is a global activists movement to stop violence against women and girls. In 2010, more than 5400 V-Day events took place around the world. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $75 million and reached over 300 million people. Each year V-Day spotlights a specific group of women to raise awareness. In 2011, women in Haiti were selected for the spotlight. The event was a benefit performance for Prince William County’s Domestic Violence program, ACTS Turning Points, whose mission is to raise awareness and end violence against women and girls in the community.
Everyone was invited to participate in the event: faculty, students, staff. Adjunct faculty who typically would never meet under ordinary circumstances were working together, alongside their students. Not only was this an amazing opportunity for a community service project that was near and dear to many of the adjunct faculty who participated. Theana Kastens, one of the amazing performers explained that the Vagina Monologues “breaks the “giggle” barrier into serious talk about the immensity of female capacity.” And so it was really not only this cool way to raise money for a great cause, but it brought about this sort of incredible female bonding experience for female faculty and students a like. Such fun was had while doing the show!
Special Thanks Also to Adjunct Faculty Cast: Amber Maiden, Deanna Fleischmann, Theana Kastens, Leisha Anderson, and LeeAnn Thomas. Student Cast: Alexandrea Harris, Alyssa (Yssa) Kroll, Carmen Ocasio, Destiny Johnson, and Lighting Technician, Christopher Stull. Special shout out also to the Communications and Humanities Division for their amazing and awesome support of adjuncts! Special thanks to full-time faculty, Dr. Carmen Figueroa, administrative staff Maddie Coradin, Lesley Nyborg and Acting Dean Lori Leeker, as they dedicated their time and support to make the event a great success!
Also, special shout out to Tariq Rahimi, an adjunct from the Natural Science and Math Division, who received the 2011 Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award! From the Board of Directors of the NVCC Alumni Federation! Tariq Rahim is an awesome adjunct!