REPORT OF THE DWC OUTREACH COMMITTEE

Greetings, everyone.

I hope that this message finds you all well! I am delighted to announce that there are some new faces on the Outreach Committee this year. In addition to returning members Sharon RedHawk Love, Heather Melton, and Jana Jasinski, new members include Robin Robinson, Emily Lenning, Kristi Holsinger, Angela Simon, and Jo-Ann Della-Giustina. Thus, the 2005 Outreach Committee is as follows:

Co-Chairs
Amanda Burgess Proctor
Sharon RedHawk Love

Members
Heather Melton
Jana Jasinski
Robin Robinson
Emily Lenning
Kristi Holsinger
Angela Simon
Jo-Ann Della-Giustina

These new additions to the Outreach Committee have resulted in some changes in the Ambassador Program as well. The 2005 DWC Ambassadors are:

ASC Executive Board: Jana Jasinski
Division on People of Color & Crime: Sharon RedHawk Love
Division on Corrections & Sentencing: Jo-Ann Della-Giustina
Division of Critical Criminology: Robin Robinson
Division of International Criminology: Heather Melton

While there are no ambassador reports at this time, we hope to have updates from around the ASC for the next issue of the DivisioNews.

In other Outreach news, the Committee is in the process of developing new outreach efforts for the coming year. One terrific suggestion that we are working on involves scanning the preliminary program for the upcoming ASC Annual Meeting for individuals who will be presenting papers on issues related to gender and crime but who currently are not DWC members. The idea is to send an e-mail to these individuals telling them more about the DWC and inviting them to attend DWC-sponsored events. (Thanks to Emily Lenning for this great idea!) We'll be hammering out the details of this proposal in the coming weeks and will be sure to keep everyone posted.

Speaking of the upcoming Annual Meeting, it is never to early to begin thinking about the Outreach Table! As you may know, Sharon RedHawk Love oversees Outreach Table operations (how's that for alliteration?), so I encourage anyone with suggestions or ideas to contact Sharon. One suggestion that we plan to implement this year is to schedule the blocks of time for staffing the table so that they correspond with paper presentations, rather than have 2-hour shifts. In this way, we hope to reduce scheduling conflicts and to encourage more people to volunteer their time to staff the table. We can ALWAYS use more volunteers, so please think about setting aside an hour or so of your time at ASC to be an Outreach Table volunteer!

Finally, I would like to say thank you to departing Outreach Committee members Vicki Waytowich and Michelle Miller for all of their hard work during the last year. As always, we welcome all suggestions, questions, or comments for the Outreach Committee; please feel free to contact Sharon (srl11@psu.edu) or me (burges26@msu.edu) with your ideas.

Thanks, and Happy Spring!
Amanda