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Heifer Exec Celebrates Women’s Day March 8

Elizabeth Bintliff, interim vice president of Heifer International鈥檚 Africa Program, will help 糖心Vlog传媒LR celebrate Thursday, March 8, with a lecture titled 鈥淲omen and Development.鈥� Bintliff will speak at 6 p.m. in the Engineering and Information Technology auditorium. A question-and-answer session and a reception will follow. The event 鈥� sponsored by the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Gender Studies Student Association 鈥� is free and open to the public. For more information, email Dr. Erin Finzer, assistant professor of international and second language studies. Bintliff, who joined Heifer International in 2000, will have a special focus on African development. Born in Cameroon, she came to the United States to pursue an education, earning a bachelor鈥檚 degree in international affairs from Kennesaw State University in Georgia and a master鈥檚 degree in African studies at Yale. A Fulbright Scholar, Bintliff led the effort to establish Heifer offices in Sierra Leone and Senegal in 2007. In addition to her work at Heifer, Bintliff serves with the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and is a member of Envoy, a group promoting the work of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.