Antioch Rotary Club screens The Empowerment Project film for 8th grade girls in Antioch
Dallas Ranch Middle School Vice Principal Paula McEvoy introduces panelists, Dr. Yenjean Hwang, Melissa Margain Field a military veteran, Julie Haas-Wajdowicz City of Antioch Environmental Resource Coordinator, and Antioch Councilwoman Monica Wilson. Photos by Hilda Parham
Dallas Ranch Middle School girls watch The Empowerment Project film on Tuesday on morning.
By Sal Sbranti
The Antioch Rotary Club is proud to again be sponsoring the screening of the film The Empowerment Project. It will be shown at the four Antioch Middle Schools to all 8th Grade female students. The objective of the film is to create conversation and motivate young women on their own personal journey of empowerment as they follow the stories of the women in the film.Created by filmmakers Dana Michelle Cook and Sarah Moshman, the film travels 7,000 miles in its journey across the United States finding strong, positive role models in a wide variety of industries.These role models include a Four Star Admiral in the U.S. Navy, Social Entrepreneur, Pilot, Professional Athlete, Chef and an Architect.
“Antioch Rotary is very proud to be involved with Antioch Middle Schools bringing such a powerful program to our young ladies and hope to be able to move forward with a young men’s program,” said Milanka Schneiderman, Antioch Rotary Club President.
Besides the film, the Antioch Rotary Club arranged for four panelists, each a local, positive female role model, to be at each screening to discuss their professional careers and to answer any questions that students may have.
“We are very committed to the success of the youth in our local community of Antioch. We want girls to know that their options are not limited and that there is a wide arrange of careers available to them,” Schneiderman added.
The “Empowerment Project” showed on Monday at Antioch High School for Park Middle School and Antioch Middle School students, and today at Dallas Ranch Middle School and Black Diamond Middle School.
Panelists include Iris Archuleta, Dr. Yenjean Hwang, Trine Gallegos, Amy Hilton, Lynnette Giacobazzi, Julie Haas-Wajdowicz, Dr. Stacey Duckett and Diane Aguinaga.
The theme of the project is “What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail.” The girls were asked to write down their answers and at Black Diamond Middle School some of the answers were placed on a display.
As part of this project, the Antioch Rotary Club is working closely with the Principals of Antioch Middle Schools and their Vice-Principals: John Jimno, Ed Dacus, Phyllis James, Lindsay Wisely, Paula McAvoy, Asia Chhabra, Eva Padilla, Pamela Price and Julia Kent.A few years ago, Lindsay Wisely, along with Trine Gallegos, from Antioch High School started the concept of “Girl Power” with its theme of female empowerment and organized a group of 20 Antioch High School alumni to speak to the female students.
For further information regarding this program contact Sal Sbranti, our program coordinator at email address salsbranti@comcast.net. For more information on The Empowerment Project, visit www.empowermentproject.com. For more information about the Antioch Rotary Club, visit www.antiochrotaryclub.org.
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