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September 19, 2008

Rebekka Armstrong featured in Leadership Workshop Series Sept. 23

The Leadership Workshop Series, sponsored by the 网曝门 Office of Student Life and Leadership and the Campus Activities Board, will feature former 鈥淧layboy鈥� Playmate, HIV/AIDS awareness activist and competitive bodybuilder Rebekka Armstrong Tuesday, Sept. 23 in Brown Auditorium at 7 p.m. There is no charge to attend.

Armstrong, herself HIV-positive, is also a safer sex educator and a spokeswoman for several HIV-related charity groups. In 鈥淓xposed,鈥� she conveys the seriousness of being responsible, and that despite popular conceptions of a Playmate鈥檚 wild sexual life, she likely contracted HIV from a relatively normal teenage encounter.

She also discusses making the most of one鈥檚 life, with the example of her interest in bodybuilding, even with her condition. Armstrong鈥檚 career has seen her place first in the middleweight category of the 2004 Los Angeles Bodybuilding and Figure Championship and go on to other triumphs.

For more about Armstrong and her remarkable life, go to: www.rebekkaonline.com

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