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March 24, 2009 Join Deborah Rodriguez, author of Kabul Beauty School; Appalachian
folk singer and lecturer, Dr. Katie Hoffman; alumna speaker Dr. Amy
Hayes Holmes ‘00, physician and medical missionary; and a host of others in exploring leadership, creative
wisdom, and the College’s theme for 2008-09, Legacies of the Past,
Challenges for the Present: Gender roles in a Shrinking World. Deborah Rodriguez has been a hairdresser since 1979. In 2002, soon after the fall of the Taliban, she went to Afghanistan with a degree in cosmetology and a desire to help. There she helped found the Kabul Beauty School and spent five years teaching and later directing the school. This was the first modern beauty academy and training salon in Afghanistan. While there she learned of life behind the burka, and, in her best-selling novel, she introduces us to an amazing community of women struggling for autonomy in the midst of a strict society and shows us that across cultures we have much in common.
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