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December 23, 2003

Pacific Islander Activist To Speak On Boise State Campus Feb. 6

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Community activist Amata Coleman Radewagen will speak at Boise State University at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the Student Union Hatch Ballroom. Sponsored by the Hui-O-Aloha club, Radewagen�s talk will focus on issues in the Asian American/Pacific Islander community. Radewagen chairs the 15-member President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She is the only Pacific Islander on the committee that advises President George W. Bush on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues. A community activist and political leader in American Samoa, she was named National Breast Cancer Coalition coordinator for the territory in 1993 and from 1994 to 1997 was Pacific Region coordinator as well. A survivor of breast cancer, Radewagen also has served as spokesperson for the Samoan Women�s Health Fund, a project organized to establish a breast cancer awareness and screening program in the territory. and helped to bring mammography to Pago Pago for the first time. Radewagen also serves as a leadership staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the special projects coordinator and oversees the Outreach Job Bank for Congresswoman Deborah Pryce. -30- Contact China Veldhouse Idaho Republican Party 208 343-6405 Media Contact Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275

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