Media Release
For Immediate Release
January 9, 2006
For more information contact Karen Kubby at 319-337-2112

Human Rights Educator to Keynote Choice Dinner 2006

The Emma Goldman Clinic's annual fundraiser, Choice Dinner 2006, will be held on Saturday, January 28, 2006 from 6-9pm in the second floor ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.  This event will celebrate the 33rd Anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which re-legalized abortion in the United States.  Tickets are $40, $25 for students and those living on lower incomes.  Proceeds will go to the deProsse Access Fund which provides financial subsidies for women living on lower incomes seeking abortion services.

This year's keynote speaker is Reverend Roslyn Sachtel.  Rev. Sachtel is the Executive Director of the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) based in Decatur, Georgia. NCHRE is the first human rights education organization in the United States that focuses primarily on domestic human rights violations.  Rev. Roslyn Satchel is a writer, lawyer, minister, educator, and human rights advocate.  She earned degrees in law, religion, and communications from Howard University and Emory University.  Her work has taken her all over the world, and her social justice and youth advocacy work has been highlighted in Newsweek, Essence and Honey magazines, as well as C-SPAN and several local outlets.  Rev. Satchel is also an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as serving as an Associate Minister at Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta.

Rev. Sachet will focus on reproductive justice issues within a human rights framework.  "A real conversation about abortion issues must include the issues of the economic state of families in this country," stated Karen Kubby, Executive Director of the Emma Goldman Clinic.  "We need to understand that affordable housing, access to health care, living wage jobs, welfare rights, access to childcare and participation in our political system are all part of this discussion."

This event will include a social hour, dinner, program and dancing.

For more information, contact the Emma Goldman Clinic at (319) 337-2112 or visit the web site at www.emmagoldman.com.