Marymount Celebrates International Day of the Girl

10/12/2018

On Thursday, Oct. 11, Marymount celebrated International Day of the Girl with a powerful morning assembly organized by student leaders.

Members of Marymount’s Associated Student Body, Service Board, and Campus Ministry focused this year’s International Day of the Girl presentation on Women Superheroes. After watching the Girl Effect’sThe Clock is Ticking about the global state of women’s issues, student leaders took turns sharing women icons who inspire them, including Patrisse Cullors, St. Helen Prejean, Dorothy Day, Diane Feinstein, and Michelle Obama.

Since its inception in 2012, when the United National declared the International Day of the Girl an annual observance day, Marymount has joined women worldwide to raise awareness of the importance of girls’ and women’s education. International Day of the Girl acknowledges both the common, and the varying, struggles of all women across a spectrum of issues, including education, nutrition, health, childbirth, medicine, and legal and human rights, among others.

Sailors and Marymount faculty shared more of female inspiration in a video produced by Amanda A. '21 and Samantha J. '20. The assembly ended with ASB President Kate. S.’s ’19 solo performance of Adele’s Set Fire to the Rain. As students filtered out of Cantwell Hall, they stopped to add their own heroes to the wall of women created for reflection on 2018’s International Day of the Girl.

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