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As a time dedicated to uplifting and empowering women of color, Hamilton celebrated its first ever “Women of Color Week,” occurring between Black History Month and Women’s History Month.

Civil rights activist Diane Nash spoke to the Hamilton community about her experience as a civil rights leader in the South, the nature and strength of nonviolent protest, and the current political sphere in a lecture on Feb. 27. She broadly covered recollections of fear, violence, cooperation, and success during her early days of activism and leadership.

The question of what it means to be “American” has never been easy to answer. For marginalized groups, issues of competing identities and stereotypes can lead to discrepancies between self-identification and phenotypic identification. Shabana Mir, professor of anthropology at Millikin University, presented the findings of her research on the post 9/11 experiences of Muslim American women in American higher education in a Hamilton lecture on Sept. 23.

More than 45 Hamilton students and employees took part in the first Alexandra Kogut Memorial 5K charity walk and run on Oct. 12 at SUNY IT. The event was in honor of Kogut, a 2012 New Hartford Senior High School graduate who was killed inside her dorm room at SUNY Brockport last year.

The Womyn’s Center partnered with the Institute for Global Africana Studies to bring (Eye)dentity Cr(eye)sis: a photography and creative writing workshop to campus on Oct. 24.  Student participants captured images using photography that they felt best represented how they identify.

Caty Taborda ’11 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Crystal Leigh Endsley led a workshop titled “Inside Out: Beauty Where It Counts” at the second annual D.R.A.M.A. Queens Leadership Summit in Philadelphia.

The Committee for Kirkland College hosted a brunch on-campus on Sunday, April 6, to help the Womyn's Center kick off Womyn's Energy Week.