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… with emerging activists,” you said recently, “in the hopes these activists will join the transformative human … since the earliest days of your career, working at the first rape crisis center in United States history. Like many … working and winning in solidarity.     Loretta Ross — for being a champion of women of color, and all women; for …

… A Picture Is Worth… The late Sarah Charlesworth ’69 deployed photography to … document focused on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. But first, Charlesworth had to teach herself photography. Then … because there were only men in the studios. It seemed that being a female artist was unlikely to produce success.  …

… Women Changing China At the 2014 Global Symposium in Shanghai, the question is asked: Have we stalled? By Lara Farrar … has changed for women in China since Barnard organized the first such symposium, in Beijing in 2008. From the beginning, …

… sat down for a conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan, the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence Barnard … the time. What’s the mission of a women’s college? When I first started in 2008, I frequently got asked that question … Ultimately, that gives us some sense of how we are being perceived in the world. I’m very gratified that our …

… Way Back Wednesday | Grassroots CEO Lala Wu ’07 The co-founder and incoming executive director of Sister … election inspired millions of Americans to vote for the first time and will go down in history as having the highest … enterprise off the ground that was still in the process of being built itself. Coming from a background outside of …

… Barnard Magazine Barnard magazine Winter 2013 A class with the legendary poet and late Columbia professor Kenneth Koch … to direct individual episodes, a role Babbit likens to “being invited for Thanksgiving dinner as the guest of honor … also written and directed several independent films. Her first was the 1999 satirical comedy But I’m a Cheerleader. …

… ’74 wrote in her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake , “The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but … Umpierre ’24 and Candela Escolar ’24 The two Miami natives first met in an aftercare program when they were only 5 years … on these separate adventures. Asked how they feel about being apart soon, both seemed unfazed. The certainty is …

… For The Love of Yiddish Carrying on a family tradition, the … went to Barnard. Rukhl Schaechter ’79 recently became the first woman to serve as editor of the 119-year-old Yiddish … reaching into communities around the globe. In addition to being the first female editor at the Forward , Rukhl is the …

… and counting, McCay still clocks in as Caroline Brady on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, a character she has played … one category.
 In fact, McCay boasts the distinction of being the only actor ever to be nominated for both a … Yorker raised by self-made parents, McCay says she was the first in her family to go to college. Her parents were …

… a voracious reader all her life but was still “a babe in the woods,” she says. “I had read everything from Greek … the Civil War. It was the War of Northern Aggression.” Being raised by Easterners—Berkin’s father was from … her books on early American women’s history, particularly First Generations (1996) and Revolutionary Mothers (2005), …