Bowling Green, Ky. - The Rev. Roslyn Satchel, a writer, lawyer, minister, educator, human rights advocate and featured speaker for the American Democracy Project, will speak at Western Kentucky University’s Mass Media and Technology Hall at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12.

Her lecture is titled “Bringing Human Rights Home: Protecting Human Rights in Democracy Domestically.” The event is free and open to the public.

Rev. Satchel is the executive director of the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE), the first human rights education organization in the United States that focuses on human rights domestically. 

She advocates stopping the imprisonment and prosecution of children as adults, and has campaigned to make the pimping of children a felony in the state of Georgia, where she lives. Rev. Satchel is ordained as an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and has created spiritual enrichment services that have been integrated into the essential programming at one of the country’s only treatment facilities for prostituted girls. She speaks across the country on these topics, and on her work as a founding board member of the Interfaith Children’s Movement of Metro Atlanta, which brings together faith communities to act on behalf of children in state custody.

Rev. Satchel’s visit is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program and African American Studies, and is a part of Constitution Week at WKU.
           
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For information, contact Trish Lindsey Jaggers at (270) 745-6477.

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