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Grace Ross featured at Sarah Sharbach Lecture

(WORCESTER - March 8,, 2007) Political activist Grace Ross will be the featured speaker of this year’s  Sarah Sharbach Memorial Lecture at 10 a.m., on Tuesday, March 13, 2007, in the Student Center Blue Lounge at Worcester State College.

Ross will lecture on the need for citizens to engage in political activism to better serve humanity. In November 2006, Ross was the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate for the Green-Rainbow Party and gave a grassroots voice to the election.

Ross grew up in New York, went to Harvard and later began her career as an activist. She is the project director for Sisters Together Ending Poverty and has fought for issues such as poverty, union organization, women's rights, and gay/lesbian rights.

Grace Ross has touched many lives through her activism, as did Dr. Sarah E. Sharbach during her time at Worcester State College. Dr. Sharbach began teaching history at the College in the fall of 1999 and during her time at WSC, she initiated a number of events on human rights abuses and violence. Dr. Sharbach’s commitment to the College continued after she learned that she had breast cancer in the fall of 2000. Her passion for teaching persisted during her treatments. She passed away in January 2004, but is remembered by all who had the good fortune to know her.

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