On Tuesday, March 1, ODU’s Women and Gender Equity Center (W&GEC) kicked off their Women’s History Month schedule with a keynote event called “Making Her-Story”, which featured Maia Chaka. Chaka is the first Black woman to be hired by the NFL to officiate on-field, as well as the first to officiate an NFL game.
Every year ODU’s W&GEC has a theme for Women’s History Month, and this year the theme is promoting healing and hope.
“This theme is both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic, and also in recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history,” said Ericka Harrison-Bey, the assistant director of the Women & Gender Equity Center.