AAUW Program Focuses on Role of Mass Media

REDLANDS – Denise Dalaimo, professor of sociology at Mount San Jacinto College, spoke about diverse social groups and the role of mass media in society at the April 1 meeting of the Redlands Branch of American Association of Univesity Women.

The meeting was at the University of Redlands’ Casa Loma Room.

According to the Media Education Foundation, the average American is exposed to more than 3,600 media messages a day, Dalaimo said.

Dalaimo has expertise in media literacy, social inequalities, diversity, discrimination and cultural studies. She has written articles for academic journals and textbooks and is the recipient of the Regina Stanback-Stroud Diversity Award given by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.

For the past seven years she has been researching Harley- Davidson motorcycle cultures for a book.

Tammy Young of Partners for Better Health will present the program at AAUW’s May 6 dinner meeting.

Young has been a nurse practitioner for 18 years in a variety of settings. She recently accepted a position with Partners for Better Health in Ontario, working on health policy and reform and healthy communities.

She also works one to two days per week as a clinical nurse in the pediatric emergency department at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. She assists Adventist Health International with grant writing in support of Malamulo Mission in Malawi.

She completed her doctoral work in 2007 at Loma Linda University School of Public Health, focusing on health education and global health policy for women and children, and has written articles for academic journals and a nursing textbook chapter.

At the meeting, she will share statistics and talk about issues that affect the health and well-being of women and children globally. She will talk about gender inequalities that prevent women from asserting power over their own lives and how this increases their incidence of disease and death.

The meeting will be in the Casa Loma Room at the University of Redlands. Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 and the program at 7. Cost of the dinner is $14.

Reservations are required for the dinner and can be made by calling Antoinette Brenion at (909) 790-1773 or by e-mail at antoinette_brenion@eee.org (attention AAUW) by May 1. A meal reservation is not necessary to attend the program portion of the meeting.

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