The Lieben Center for Women celebrated Valentine’s day and promoted its upcoming empowerment week in the Skutt Student center this Monday with a colorful and engaging booth. The group of involved students hosted a booth in which you could stop and write a valentine for your crush, your friend or a significant other. 

The love-themed booth boasted a large poster board highlighting the upcoming events for empowerment week. Additionally, there were plenty of valentines for patrons to fill out and gift as well as Lieben Center trinkets such as stickers and pens. 

The highlight of the booth was the festivities for the season, giving valentines to not only significant others but to encourage love among friends and women empowering women. 

Keaoh Liu, a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences, said, “we want to encourage people to love.” 

She said that Valentine’s Day can often feel isolating and she wanted to encourage different types of love on the special day. She went on to say that the recurring “You are your Best Thing” event helps to emphasize this sentiment to women across campus. 

The next iteration of this event will be held Feb. 28 in the lower Brandeis Hall Creighton Intercultural Center and will discuss topics of shame, and resilience in communities of women of color. 

The booth runners wanted to ensure that, despite their name, The Lieben Center for Women is open to people of all genders, including young men who want to involve themselves on campus and advocate for women. 

Junior in the College of Arts & Sciences Kianna Nguyen emphasized that the “Mind the Pay Gap,” an event featured in the planned “Empowerment Week” this March is a great event for young men to attend to begin advocacy for the women in their community. 

The event is intended to give women the tools to advocate for themselves in workspaces where the pay gap is not reflective of their worth as workers. “Mind the Pay Gap” is scheduled for March 21 and will be held in the Skutt Ballroom. 

Nguyen went on to echo Liu saying that the goal of the Valentine’s themed booth was to, “spread joy and love around campus.” The goal of the Lieben Center enforces this statement as well with empowerment, joy and love between women at the forefront of their mission. 

“This program’s goals are to create spaces for students to come together, especially women,” senior in the College of Arts & Sciences Abby Slyter, said. 

This booth was an extension of that mission and aimed to raise awareness for groups discriminated against on and off campus.