2008 Events

January 9 Front-Runners:  Women with Political Ambition.  Focus on how to participate in Precinct Caucuses.

January 10-11 Feminist Leadership Fellows.  Opening Retreat

January 18 Feminist Blogging with Jessica Valenti. Co-sponsor.

January 23 Women and Politics Book Group. The Education of Jane Addams by Victoria Bissell Brown.

January 24 Third Thursday.  Women and Public Policy Case Studies presentation.  Featured Humphrey student case study authors.

January 25 Women and Public Policy Student Group.  Focus on women in prison.  Speaker:  Jordan Henkel.

January 25 Board Service in Women and Public Policy Workshop.  Speaker: Becky Palmer.

January 30 Women’s Human Rights Film Series.  Killers Paradise.

February 1 Feminist Leadership Fellows.  Governance session featuring Melissa Stone.

February 13 Front Runners:  Women with Political Ambition.  Speaker:  State Representative Debra Hillstrom

February 12 Presentation to HHH Advisory Board on Boards Class

February 15 Women Legislators breakfast with author and researcher Linda Babcock, Women Don’t Ask.

February 21 Women in the Professional Schools Reception.  Sponsored with the Women’s Faculty Cabinet.

February 22 Feminist Leadership Fellows.  Finance session featuring Jodi Sandfort.

February 27 Women’s Human Rights Film Series. Crimes of Honour.

February 29 Board Service in Women and Public Policy Workshop.  Speaker: Bonnie Watkins, Minnesota Women’s Consortium.

March 5 Women’s Health Alliance testimony at State Legislature on Chlamydia.

March 5 Women and Politics Book Group. Saturday's Child: A Memoir by Robin Morgan.

March 6 Women’s Human Rights Film Series. View from a Grain of Sand.

March 6,  Alison Bechdel, renown author of Dykes To Watch Out For and Fun Home (TIME Magazine # 1 Best Book of 2006), spoke at the University of Minnesota as part of the Steven J. Schochet Endowment's Toni McNaron Lecture in Arts & Culture. CWPP co-sponsored.

March 14 Feminist Leadership Fellows.  Diversity and Intersectionality featuring Dara Strolovitch.

March 15 International Women’s Day Celebration.  Co-sponsor.

March 26 Front Runners:  Women with Political Ambition.  Women’s history tour of the State Capitol.

April 4 Feminist Leadership Fellows.  Identity Politics featuring Zenzele Isoke.

April 8 Lecture by Ricki Solinger, feminist historian, on opening of photo exhibit Interrupted Lives.  Cosponsered with the UM Libraries.

April 25 Feminist Leadership Fellows.  Advocacy featuring Pam Costain, Wellstone Action.

May 3 Melpomene Run.  CWPP team participates as a team.

May 14 Front Runners:  Women with Political Ambition.  Speaker:  Minneapolis City Councilwoman Elizabeth Glidden.

May 16 Feminist Leadership Fellows.  Conflict, Schisms and Trashing featuring Sally Kenney.

May 21 Women, Law, and Public Policy Reading Group.  Discussing Mary Jane Mossman’s book, The First Women Lawyers.

May 21 Women and Politics Book Group She's No Lady: Politics, Family, and International Feminism by Arvonne Fraser (Author), Lori Sturdevant (Editor), Garrison Keillor (Introduction).

June 3 Humphrey Institute Awards Banquet.  Young Women’s Leadership Award presentation to the Minnesota Religious Coalition for Reproduction Choice.

July 23 Women and Politics Book Group. Barbara Jordan: American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers

August 25 CWPP Table at Orientation

September 17 Women and Politics Book Group. Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times, and Rise to Power by Marc Sandalow

September 19 Feminist leadership Fellows Quarterly Case Study lunch.

October 10 Board Service in Women and Public Policy Workshop.  Speaker: Ellen Benevides, author of Coloring Outside the Box

October 14.  Maria Bevaqua Lecture “Rape on the Public Agenda.” Cosponsored by CWPP.

October 17 – 18 Infinity Project Seven-State State Summit.  Featuring keynote speaker: Sherrilyn Ifill.

October 29 Women and Politics Book Group. Women Transforming Congress by Cindy Simon Rosenthal

November 14 Board Service in Women and Public Policy Workshop.  Speaker: Marcia Avner, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

December 5 Board Service in Women and Public Policy session.