The Women & Politics Institute's “Women on Wednesdays” brings our WPI community together with dynamic and thought-provoking women leaders, authors, scholars, journalists, and activists. Each Wednesday at 6PM, we gather online to discuss timely topics about empowering women in the political arena.

As part of our “Women on Wednesdays” series, please join the Women & Politics Institute celebrate the Women’s Suffrage Centennial, which commemorates the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.

Co-editors, Dr. Stacie Taranto and Dr. Leandra Zarnow, will discuss their new book, Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics Since 1920, “the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women's full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote.”
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Dr. Martha S. Jones, of Johns Hopkins University, will discuss her forthcoming book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, “the epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.”
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Award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman, co-hosts of the She Votes! Our Battle for the Ballot podcast, will discuss the complex history of the women’s suffrage movement, and its enduring significance during their tenure reporting on women’s rights and social change issues.
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