Women Connecting Globally

Women Connecting Globally Gathered on Nov. 8, 2025, 8 am to 10 am, Standard US time for our second “Women Connecting Globally” gathering. 

NOTE: This is Standard Central time, NOT Daylight savings now. 

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In the first gathering on Oct. 25, undergraduate and graduate students from CIW, Mexico City, and the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, and professionals in Arts Therapy, Communication Arts, Early Childhood Education, Higher Education, Hospital Chaplaincy, and Law bringing ideas from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Palestine, the Philippines, and the USA had rich sharing on developing and sharing their gifts.  

Catherine Cuasay, a successful Arts Therapist and mother in San Antonio, Texas, continues to build connections with her Filipino family. Natalia Hernandez, who had done fine work in the Young Women’s Global Leadership program in high school not only spoke of her university International Studies major, but also her passion to help immigrants.

Jacqueline Zavala Aguila of Mexico City shared from the perspective of helping international students in her position in the UIW Office of Research and Graduate Studies and of being a Ph.D. student. Catherine Cuasay, a successful Arts Therapist and mother in San Antonio, Texas, continues to build connections with her Filipino family. Natalia Hernandez, who had done fine work in the Young Women’s Global Leadership program in high school not only spoke of her university International Studies major, but also her passion to help immigrants. 

Rector Maria Fabiola Iturbide, who leads the branch of the University of the Incarnate Word in Mexico City shared some of the things that have helped her to be a leader including her many experiences with the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. 

Darlene Jasso is the co-founder and Vice-President for Communications for an agency helping Mayan indigenous children and their families, the Little Angels of Mary. We hope to meet some of the women with whom she works in our next session, Nov. 8. Dr. Joan Labay-Marquez is both an attorney and the Graduate Education Coordinator in the Dreeben School of Education at the UIW. Her wise and consistent assistance and encouragement has helped so many students be successful. 

Learn more from the “women connecting globally”  July newsletter, the October newsletter, the November newsletter which  includes articles on Peace Day at UIW which pictures and was  dedicated to Sr. Helena Monahan.  

Palestinian Dana Osaily, a speaker at the October gathering of “women connecting globally.”