| 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. |
