USD 383 board approves first reading of new calendar, purchases for bond projects Celebrating International Women’s Day, USD 383 Board President Jurdene Coleman read the recognition and proclamation celebrating the “collective power of women, women’s achievements, recognizing [their]challenges, focusing of greater attention on women’s rights and gender equality, encouraging and mobilizing all people to do their part to bring about positive change.” Representing the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Manhattan Commissioner Usha Reddi announced the organization celebrates their sixth year of community dialogues for International Women’s Day, and was very fortunate. “This is a very important day for us, and International Women’s Day is huge, mainly because we still haven’t met the need of gender equity, not only in the city of Manhattan, but globally. Everybody’s still working on all of the equality rights that we need to have,” Reddi said. “This year we are going to have a representative from Kenya, Iran, Jamaica, and Argentina. So they’re all living in our community, some of them are doctoral students at K state and some of them are community members. And it’s wonderful to share their culture, why they came to the United States, the traditions, differences, advantages, challenges, and just a wonderful dialogue and discussion.”