NYU's CGA and Vital Voices Global Partnership Co-Host Performance of "SEVEN"

Performance Will Be Introduced by Diane von Furstenberg

The Daily Beast's Tina Brown Will Moderate Panel

Thursday, March 26, 6:00pm

WHAT:     
“SEVEN,” a unique theatrical collaboration between seven extraordinary women and seven award-winning female playwrights, offers an inspiring glimpse into the lives of women leaders who have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to achieve justice and freedom.

Hosted by the Center for Global Affairs at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and Vital Voices Global Partnership, the play is based on personal interviews with seven women leaders who fought to bring about progress in their home countries of Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Cambodia.
 
After the performance, five of the seven women will participate in a panel discussion on the challenges that women face worldwide and the actions that can be taken to continue our progress.

WHO:   
Diane von Furstenberg will introduce the performance, and Vital Voices Global Partnership co-founder and president Alyse Nelson Bloom will introduce the panel discussion, which will be moderated by The Daily Beast founder and editor-in-chief Tina Brown.

WHEN:        
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 6:00PM

WHERE:   
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)
   
TICKETS:   
To register for tickets, visit www.scps.nyu.edu/cga.seven.

MEDIA ONLY: Reporters wishing to cover the event, please contact Cheryl Guevara at 212-992-9103 / cheryl.guevara@nyu.edu or Ken Brown at 212-998-9119 / ken.brown@nyu.edu.


About Vital Voices Global Partnership
Vital Voices Global Partnership is a leading non-governmental organization (NGO) that supports and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all. For more information about Vital Voices, please visit www.vitalvoices.org.

About The Center for Global Affairs
The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies educates and inspires students to become global citizens capable of identifying and implementing solutions to pressing global challenges. The CGA offers an M.S. in Global Affairs, a professional Certificate in Global Affairs, and a robust series of public events at its location in the historic Woolworth Building in lower Manhattan.  Its faculty is made up of scholars as well as senior staff members of NGOs, international lawyers, journalists specializing in global affairs, and other professionals whose substantive experience heighten students’ awareness of emerging issues, helping them succeed in virtually any global career. For more information about the Center for Global Affairs, please visit www.scps.nyu.edu/cga.