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Committees
We have many exciting and diverse opportunities for volunteer involvement. We have board positions, branch steering committees, board committees, specialized task forces, a caucus, and various networks that can appeal to different special interests in the membership. One of the exciting things about NASW WI is that new special interest groups, task forces, caucuses or networks can be formed if there is enough interest from membership. Our current list includes:
Volunteer involvement with NASW WI is a great way to meet other practitioners, develop leadership skills, make important professional and career contacts, and work cooperatively to change social policy on a state or national level. A majority of our committees function via toll-free conference calls. Please take a look at the committee descriptions, and then fill out the sign up sheet if you are interested in joining. CULTURAL DIVERSITY BOOK CLUB: READING LIST
*Indicates that book club members voted this
book one of the top eleven books.
*A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry (India)
*All Aunt Hagar’s
Children
by Edward P. Jones
*Dreams From My
Father by
Barack Obama
*Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
*Neither Wolf Nor Dog
by Kent
Nerburn (Native American)
*Nine
Parts of Desire
by Geraldine Brooks (Muslim)
*The
Color of Water
by James McBride (African-American)
*The Deam of Water
by Kyoko
Mori (Japan)
*The Known World
by
Edward P. Jones (American Slavery)
*The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Ann Fadiman
*Three Cups of Tea
by Mortenson and Relin
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Bamboo Among the Oaks
by Mai Neng Moua (Hmong)
Bless Me Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya (Chicano)
China Boy
by Gus Lee
Dreaming in Cuban
by Cristina Garcia
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
(African-American)
Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
(African-American)
The Heart Is A Lonely
Hunter
by Carson McCullers
(White/Black--South)
The House on Mango
Street
by Sandra Cisneros
(Mexican)
The Miracle Life
of Edgar Mint
by Brady
Udall (Native
American)
Their Eyes
Were
Watching God
by Zora
Neale
Hurston (African-American)
Wild Swans
by Jung
Chang
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