Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
As states in the U.S. enact abortion bans and introduce regressive legislation meant to regulate reproduction, FLY SO FAR serves as a grave warning of just how far government control of women’s bodies can go. This brave film from Celina Escher follows Teodora Vásquez, a woman who in 2008 was sentenced to thirty years in a Salvadorean prison after suffering a stillbirth at nine months pregnant. At Ilopango Women’s Prison, she becomes a spokesperson for The Seventeen, a group of working-class women who were unjustly incarcerated after experiencing obstetric complications. While it exposes brutal human rights abuses, FLY SO FAR is unmistakably a story of collective resistance, activism, and sisterhood, as well as the self-determination and agency of women.
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Join Boston Globe Associate Editor and columnist, Marcela GarcÃa and director Celina Escher in this virtual discussion about the film, 'FLY SO FAR'.Â
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