Girls to portray famous women

The American Association of University Women will present a Women in History program at 6:30 p.m. Wed., March 19 at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Westlake Village. Fifth- and sixth-grade students from Conejo Elementary School will portray five historical women.

Lori Peters and her team of coaches direct the program.

The girls will portray the following women:

•Judith Baca, an American artist, activist and professor of fine arts at UCLA, is the founder and executive director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center, a community arts center in Venice, Calif.

•Elma Gonzalez, born in Mexico and moved to Texas, is a professor of biology at UCLA. Her work as a cell biologist may lead to a better understanding of the global carbon cycle.

•Jackie Joyner-Kersee has won three gold, one silver and one bronze Olympic medal. She has held the world heptathlon record since 1986. After her retirement, she started the JJK Youth Center Foundation to help underprivileged children in East St. Louis.

•Mother Teresa is a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950 to minister to the poor, sick, orphaned and dying.

•Oprah Winfrey is the Emmy Award-winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Awardnominated actress and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked as the most philanthropic African American of all time.