{"id":6695,"date":"2016-02-10T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:27:29","slug":"6695","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/6695\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune celebrates Koryne Horbal, mentions lecture series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune - logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently published an article covering the life of <strong>Koryne Horbal<\/strong>, political activist and former United Nations ambassador for women. Horbal co-founded the Minnesota DFL&#8217;s feminist caucus and was an early champion of still-debated issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment, sexual slavery, reproductive choice, and workplace equity.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes Augsburg&#8217;s Koryne Horbal Lecture Series in which the College welcomes prominent feminist speakers including Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Winona LaDuke, and The Guerilla Girls. Horbal has been a consultant for the Women&#8217;s Resource Center at Augsburg and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the College in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the lecture will take place on March 9 and feature Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP. More information on the event is available on the Convocation Series\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-headline\">Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-political-pioneer-koryne-horbal-looks-back\/367976871\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota political pioneer Koryne Horbal looks back<\/a>&#8221; on the Star Tribune site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently published an article covering the life of Koryne Horbal, political activist and former United Nations ambassador for women. Horbal co-founded the Minnesota DFL&#8217;s feminist caucus and was an early champion of still-debated issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment, sexual slavery, reproductive choice, and workplace equity. The article notes Augsburg&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[3757,3790,1611,1612,3791,2312,2692],"class_list":["post-6695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donors","category-in-the-news","tag-convocation-series","tag-feminism","tag-koryne-horbal","tag-koryne-horbal-lecture","tag-nekima-levy-pounds","tag-politics","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}