PRESS RELEASE
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN OF COLOR
3325 Northrop Avenue, Sacramento, California, 95864 Telephone: 916-483-9804
>From Susanne Brooks, President/CEO
The International Association for Women of Color is an organization that promotes programs to honor outstanding women of color who contribute to their communities and gives recognition to men, women, organizations, and businesses which support diversity.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Gilda Baeza Ortego, University Librarian at Western New Mexico University has been selected as one of the honorees who will receive an award as an Outstanding Women of Color at the 2008 Women of Color Day event in Sacramento, California, on March 2, 2008.
The International Association for Women of Color honors Dr. Gilda Baeza Ortego for her lifetime work and achievements as a woman of color in the field of library and information studies and for her community activism on behalf of women of color.