Elizabeth Bintliff, interim vice president of Heifer International’s Africa Program, will help UALR celebrate International Women’s Day Thursday, March 8, with a lecture titled “Women and Development.”

Bintliff will speak at 6 p.m. in the Engineering and Information Technology auditorium. A question-and-answer session and a reception will follow. The event – sponsored by the UALR Gender Studies Student Association – is free and open to the public.

For more information, email Dr. Erin Finzer, assistant professor of international and second language studies.

Bintliff, who joined Heifer International in 2000, will have a special focus on African development. Born in Cameroon, she came to the United States to pursue an education, earning a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from Kennesaw State University in Georgia and a master’s degree in African studies at Yale.

A Fulbright Scholar, Bintliff led the effort to establish Heifer offices in Sierra Leone and Senegal in 2007.

In addition to her work at Heifer, Bintliff serves with the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and is a member of Envoy, a group promoting the work of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.