Topics to be covered include:
* Why is August 26th significant?
* Who are some of the women we should particularly honor on this day?
* How did this divided/ uninclusive beginning of the suffrage movement go on to limit the discourse of feminism today?
* How do we confront the erasure of the efforts of women of color in the fight for the right to vote?
* What challenges lie ahead in securing equality amongst all women in America right now?
Rene Redwood, CEO of Redwood Enterprise, informs the debate, policies, and practices on equity and inclusion while directing winning initiatives for public, non-profit, and private sector. She is a chemist by training, was director of the Presidential Glass Ceiling Commission, was court-appointed to oversee a Fortune 100 corporation class action settlement, and currently Chairs the Equality Task Force for a security agency. Rene conducts: workplace audits, culture assessments and barrier analysis on human capital organizational risk; workforce systems and process transformation; and qualitative research with internal and external customers on policies, institutional practices, values, and attitudes impacting morale and the bottom line. She facilitates learning on: EEO, DEI, sexual harassment; and the impact of bias on individual and institutional success.
Kimberly A. Hamlin, Ph.D., is an award-winning historian, speaker, and writer. Her book - Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener - reveals the fascinating story of the “fallen woman” who reinvented herself and became the “most potent factor” in Congressional passage of the 19th Amendment. Free Thinker received support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. Appointed to the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Bureau, Kimberly speaks about the history of women, gender, and sex across the country. A regular contributor to the Washington Post, her research has also been featured in NPR and CBC radio, Vice , qz.com, among other outlets, and she has contributed to several PBS documentaries. Dr. Hamlin is currently helping to organize commemorations of the 2020 suffrage centennial, and she serves as historical consultant to the Bearded Lady Project, now on view at the National Museum of Natural History. She cohosts the Mercantile Library’s “Women You Should Know” Book Series in Cincinnati and teaches at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 
Cathleen D. Cahill, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Penn State University, is a social historian who explores the everyday experiences of ordinary people, primarily women. She focuses on women's working and political lives, asking how identities such as race, nationality, class, and age have shaped them. Cathleen is the author of “Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1932” (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), which won the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award and was a finalist for the David J. Weber and Bill Clements Book Prize. Her upcoming book (Fall 2020)“Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement” follows the lead of feminist scholars of color calling for alternative "genealogies of feminism." It is a collective biography of six suffragists, Yankton Dakota Sioux author and activist Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-ša); Wisconsin Oneida writer Laura Cornelius Kellogg; Turtle Mountain Chippewa and French lawyer Marie Bottineau Baldwin; African American poet and clubwoman Carrie Williams Clifford; Mabel Ping Hau Lee, the first Chinese woman in the United States to earn her Ph.D. ; and New Mexican Hispana politician and writer Nina Otero Warren, both before and after the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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