AAUW Eugene-Lane was proud to sponsor branch member and UO doctoral student Victoria Olajide, as she attended AAUW’s May 25-26, 2021 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL)! Victoria is currently spending the summer in her native Nigeria, so she graciously created the following video report of her NCCWSL experiences.

Being inspired to “use her voice to effect change” was Victoria’s biggest take-away from the event, but her entire seven-minute video is worth checking out.

Alternatively, here is the transcript from her report (although the video version is more compelling):

Transcript:

Hello everyone, my name is Victoria Olajide. I’m a soon to be third year PhD student at the University of Oregon, a PhD student of the anthropology department. I was sponsored by the AAUW Eugene Chapter to attend the 2021 NCCWSL Conference, the virtual conference that held on the 25th and 26th of May, 2021. And I should be giving this report in person.

Unfortunately, I’m in Nigeria right now, and Nigeria is nine hours ahead of the US, so I decided to make a video, and the network situation is quite unpredictable right here, so I decided to send in a video. I hope that is acceptable by everyone.

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