2007 Events

May 5, the "Fast Feminists" -- CWPP director Sally Kenney and students (Coral Butson, Tamara Downs-Schwei, Katie Peacock, Kathryn Pearson, Melissa Reed, Emily Saunoi-Sandgren, Libby Sharrow, Sarah Taylor-Nanista and Kate Troy) -- completed a 5K run in support of Melpomene.

February 7 Women and Politics Book Group.  Candidate: The Truth Behind the Presidential Campaign by Emily O'Reilly. Dublin: Attic Press, 1991.

March 28 Ford Women, Law, and Public Policy Reading Group.  “The Glass Cliff:  Theories that Explain and Sustain the Precariousness of Women’s Leadership Positions,” by Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslan, forthcoming in Implicit Leadership Theories:  Essays and Explorations.  Greenwich, CT:  Information Age Publishing.

April 4 Women and Politics Book Group.  Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right by Catherine Rymph. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

June 6 Women and Politics Book Group.  A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown. New York: Anchor, 1992.

June 7 Intergenerational Feminism Lunch.  Young women leaders that nominated organizations for the Young Women’s Leadership Award spoke about how to integrate young women in feminist organization leadership. (link to http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/wpp/ywlif/ywlif_luncheon.html)

June 14 Breakfast with Susan Estrich.  A small group of leaders in the effort to elect more women in Minnesota attended a breakfast sponsored by the Center with Susan Etrich.  Ms Estrich is a best selling author, commentator and the first woman to run a presidential campaign.