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Title: Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference
Post by: Shana A on April 09, 2008, 01:47:01 PM
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Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference

I've just returned from the International Foundation for Gender Education's annual conference that was held at the Doubletree Hotel in Tucson, Arizona. A speaker on the very first day said "If you let it, this conference will change you." Even though this was my first conference, the skeptic in me heard a sales pitch being thrown. "Maybe some other people buy that stuff, but not me", I told myself.