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Sigma Lambda Beta’s local alumni chapter won an $8,000 educational foundation award, which will help the group create an event that would aid with abortion access and in dismantling machismo. Sigma Lambda Beta’s event is meant to create a gathering at S.O.B. Doors will open at 7 p.m. for a salsa dance workshop led by world champion professional salsa dancer Selena Tornez . Attendees can purchase tickets for the night’s raffle. , New York City’s all-woman salsa orchestra, will play their first set.
When the brothers of Sigma Lambda Beta came up with the idea to work with an abortion-related organization, they said they also had trouble finding one on the internet. “We truly started off in the same way, with a Google search and trying to find an abortion-access advocate in our area or in the nation,” Iglesias said. “It was very noticeable how googling that kind of information was very hard in some ways.