IUPUC's Office of Women's Studies has partnered with Zonta and several additional community organizations to host a free public screening of the film Wilhelmina's War, a powerful documentary about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States. The event is in honor of International Women's Day and will be held on Wednesday, Mar. 8 at 5 p.m. in the Student Lounge at the Columbus Learning Center. Free wine and appetizers will be served.

Film's director, June Cross, will be joining us for a post-film discussion. Cross is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of Secret Daughter. Cross’s biography includes the following information: 

During her career, she has worked for PBS’ Frontline, CBS News, and PBS’ MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her reporting for NewsHour on the U.S. invasion of Grenada won the 1983 Emmy for "Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story." She is best known for “Secret Daughter” an autobiographical film that examines how race and color affected her family; it won an Emmy in 1997 and was honored that same year with a DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. In 2006, Viking published her memoir, “Secret Daughter,” She was an executive producer for “This Far by Faith” a six-hour series on the African-American religious experience that was broadcast on PBS in 2003.  

Our sponsors make this free event possible.

Arts4Aids, African American Fund, Baobob Orphanage of Tanzania, Jill Tasker, First Presbyterian Church, Columbus Peace Fellowship, IUPUC Office of Women’s Studies, Hotel Indigo, The Granny Connection, and Columbus Food Co-op.