Growing up, Gail Reimer, a 1984–85 American Fellow, knew she was going to have to do something more than just live her life. With two parents who had survived the Holocaust, Gail had been brought up to “pay it forward.” The Jewish Women’s Archive, with Gail is its founding director, is one big way she [...]
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Meet Gail Reimer: Founding Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's History Month, tagged American Fellowship, blog, education, film, Following the Fellows, Jewesses with Attitude, jewish comedians, Jewish Women's Archive, women's history on May 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Madam Speaker of the House
Posted in Voter Education, Women's History Month, tagged education, enviroment, healthcare, Madam Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Trinity College, women's history on March 25, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a woman who has broken through a political barrier by serving as the first female speaker of the House of Representatives. She attended an all-women’s college, Trinity College (renamed Trinity Washington University), in Washington, D.C. In the early 60s she married Paul Pelosi and later moved to California. The Pelosis moved [...]
Harriet Tubman, Spy
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Civil Rights, tagged African American, Black History Month, women's history on February 23, 2009, | 3 Comments »
By sheer happenstance I caught the tail end of the review of a new book, Black Dispatches, by Ken Dagler, which tells stories of African American slaves who actually served as spies. As someone who had decided to be a spy at the age of five (albeit later denied for being “too short”), I found [...]
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