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Guardian Life Insurance Company’s Girls
Going Places College Scholarship will be awarded to Eagle
entrepreneur Arielle Gorin during the general meeting of the
National Association of Women Business Owners, Boise Area
and Southern Idaho Chapter. Following the award, Keynote Speaker
Dr. Janet Mills will be addressing Gender, Power and Nonverbal
Communication. The meeting will be held at the Doubletree
Hotel Boise-Riverside on Tuesday, July 8th. A networking reception
will start at 5:30 p.m. and the presentation will begin at
6:00 p.m. The general public is invited to this event. RSVP
at www.nawboboise.org.
The Girls Going Places College Scholarship
Program is The Guardian Life Insurance Company's annual initiative
designed to help women create, invest and protect wealth by
rewarding the enterprising spirits of girls ages 12 to 16.
Guardian awards college scholarships to 15 girls who demonstrate
budding entrepreneurship; are taking the first steps toward
financial independence; and make a difference in their school
and communities. Scholarship prizes totaling $30,000 are awarded
among three top winners and 12 finalists each year. Arielle
Gorin, 16 of Eagle, Idaho is one of this year’s recipients.
At age 9, Arielle began honing an innate talent for marketing
crafts, selling door-to-door her hand-made potholders, sometimes
selling out and coming home with orders to fill. Almost immediately,
Arielle discovered her untapped talent for writing, launching
a career as a commissioned free-lance writer. At age 10, she
was contracted to write 12 monthly articles about history,
"Millennium Moments" and published two poems and
short stories. Arielle went on to write her first book, "Heroes
in Our Midst: Ten Courageous Idaho Veterans Tell Their Stories."
Arielle was recently selected as one of "America's 2002
Top Ten Outstanding Homeschool Students" and regularly
volunteers time to a local veteran's organization. She will
travel to Washington D.C. to receive the U.S. Congressional
Gold Medal, the only medal awarded to civilians by Congress.
Dr. Janet Mills is a Professor of Public Policy
and Administration & Professor of Communication at Boise
State University. She received her Ph.D. in Speech Communication
and Human Relations. During her keynote speech on Gender,
Power and Nonverbal Communication, Mills will describe and
demonstrate how men and women speak different body language.
Using the audience as a data base and as volunteers, she illustrates
how gendered behaviors convey unspoken messages of power,
dominance and status...and how these same gendered behaviors
convey unspoken messages of affiliation, connection and intimacy.
The potentials for confusion and misrepresentation are clear.
So are implications for increased personal effectiveness.
About NAWBO
The National Association of Women Business Owners propels
women entrepreneurs into economic, social, and political spheres
of power worldwide. The resounding success of women business
owners makes them the fastest growing segment of American
business. NAWBO is the only dues-based national organization
representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs in all
industries. It currently has over 8,000 members in more than
80 chapters.
NAWBO's strength comes from the diversity
of its membership - all sizes from sole proprietorship to
hundreds of employees, every industry from construction, importers,
and retailers to service providers, and in all areas of the
country. Membership is open to sole proprietors, partners
and corporate owners with day-to-day management responsibility.
Members can access a variety of opportunities, products or
services that will help their business achieve greater visibility,
credibility and profitability.
The NAWBO Boise Area and Southern Idaho Chapter was founded
in 2002 to raise the level of awareness and support for established
women business owners in Idaho. For further information, contact
Saundra McDavid, Public Relations Committee Chair, at 208-938-9224.
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