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Celebrate International Women's Day With Lola Reid Allin

Highway to the Sky: Pathways to Success

Join us for an inspiring presentation with pilot, adventurer, author and photographer Lola Reid Allin in celebration of International Women's Day!

Join us for an inspiring presentation with pilot, adventurer, author and photographer Lola Reid Allin in celebration of International Women's Day!

6:30 PM-7:00 PM: Join us for a meet and greet with Lola Reid Allin.

7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Presentation begins.

Highway to the Sky: Pathways to Success.
In 1980, Lola earned her commercial pilot license and became one of a few women in Canada licensed to fly for hire and reward. Lola explains the rewards of an aviation career and the challenges faced by women, then and now. She offers several possible reasons why women remain under-represented in commercial aviation (only 5%-7% of pilots are female!) and why aviation or other STEM careers lure few women. Lola is co-lead for the Education & Outreach Committee, First Canadian Chapter, Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots.

Lola Reid Allin is a commercial airline transport pilot, flight instructor, SCUBA divemaster and an award-winning author and photographer whose work has appeared in national newspapers and publications and in juried national and international shows. Her professional aviation affiliations include Women in Aviation International, The 99s: International Organization of Women Pilots and the Northern Lights Aero Foundation. An adventurer who lived with the Maya in Mexico and Belize for three years, Reid Allin has explored more than sixty-five countries in depth. When she isn’t backpacking Baffin Island, trekking the Andes or the Himalayas, forging deep into the Guatemalan jungle, summiting Kilimanjaro or guiding a dogsled team in the Yukon, she lives with her husband of twenty-five years in a small community east of Toronto, Canada.

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If you have any questions, please contact Library Programmer Lauren Contini at lcontini@guelphpl.ca

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