Body Politic(s) Lecture Series

7:30 pm

From Jim Crow America to Apartheid South Africa and Beyond: A Journalist’s Journey
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, former national and foreign correspondent for NPR , CNN, and PBS
Art Building, Gamble Auditorium

Saturday, March 28

Weissman Center Leadership Symposium

9:30-10:30 am

Leadership in Action: WCL Alumnae and Students
Panel presentation and discussion

Dyanne Rousseau FP ’10, Yedalis Ruiz FP ’08, Marcia Schenck ’09, Mika Weissbuch ‘11
Cleveland Hall, L2

10:45-Noon

Women’s Voices and the Public Sphere
Panel presentation and discussion

Mary Kelley, Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, former national and foreign correspondent for NPR, CNN, and PBS

Carolyn Jessop, advocate for women and girls and former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

1:45-3:00 pm

Voices and Visions of Transformative Leadership
A Weissman Center Documentary
Cleveland Hall, L2

Leadership and the Liberal Arts
Panel presentation and discussion
Cleveland Hall, L2

Maria Hinojosa, award-winning broadcast journalist,documentary filmmaker, and NOW on PBS senior correspondent

Nita M. Lowey ’59, Congresswoman and former New York Assistant Secretary of State

Laurie Priest, Director of Athletics and chair of Physical Education, Mount Holyoke College

3:00-3:30 pm

Booksignings by Maria Hinojosa, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Carolyn Jessop, and Mary Kelley ‘65
Kendade Atrium

3:45-4:30 pm

Under the Shadow of the Camera: Reflections of the #Khomani San
Gallery talk and multimedia exhibit by Marcia Schenck ‘09
Blanchard Art Gallery