{"id":9333,"date":"2014-11-12T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:44:49","slug":"unc-global-story-on-two-college-students-who-won-nc-womens-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=9333","title":{"rendered":"Two College students win NC Women\u2019s Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alison Domonoske ’15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, Alison Domonoske \u201915 and Josh King \u201914, were awarded the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Fellowship awards by the advocacy organization WomenNC.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2009, WomenNC is a non-profit organization focused on leading North Carolina\u2019s youth in the elimination of injustice against women and girls at home and around the world. WomenNC\u2019s signature leadership training program, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Fellowship, is awarded to college students each fall and culminates with presentations of original research at the United Nations annual global meeting on the status of women. Upon their return to North Carolina, the WomenNC ambassadors will share the global solutions and tactics that they learned from the conference.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s class of fellows, which also includes students from North Carolina State University, Duke University and Meredith College, will immediately begin a series of workshops and training sessions while simultaneously developing original research related to this year\u2019s theme, \u201cBeijing + 20,\u201d which focuses on the progress of women\u2019s human rights through the lens of the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing and the subsequent Beijing Platform for Action.<\/p>\n

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Josh King ’14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Josh King is double majoring in psychology and sociology, while Alison Domonoske is pursuing a degree in global studies with a focus in international politics and Latin America. Domonoske expressed her enthusiasm about the award, saying, \u201cI\u2019m excited\u00a0to work with the\u00a0other fellows from\u00a0across the Triangle and learn how women\u2019s human rights can be applied in North Carolina. I still can\u2019t believe I\u2019ll be attending the Commission on the Status of Women in NYC and am very\u00a0grateful to WomenNC and everyone who\u2019s helped me along the way!\u201d<\/p>\n

King\u2019s research project with WomenNC builds on prior work with another non-profit. \u201cI became interested in the plight of sex workers \u2013 the focus of my research project \u2013 after serving as an outreach volunteer with the NC Harm Reduction Coalition,\u201d King explained. \u201c[WomenNC] provides access to a rich network of activists who are passionate about the same issues that I am. My long-term goal is to work in community mental health, providing culturally appropriate interventions for queer youth, refugees and other underserved groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quality and number of applications for our fellowship program increases each year,\u201d explained Beth Dehghan, WomenNC president and founder. \u201cOur committee was faced with a record number of highly-qualified, talented future leaders this year, making selection especially difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

UNC Global has partnered with WomenNC to provide support for the 2015 Carolina fellows.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0www.womennc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, Alison Domonoske \u201915 and Josh King \u201914, were awarded the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Fellowship awards by the advocacy organization WomenNC. Founded in 2009, WomenNC is a non-profit organization focused on leading North Carolina\u2019s youth in the elimination of injustice against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47040,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions\/47040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}