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Oral Interviews: 
The WAPUSH team has been collecting original oral interviews with important women's rights activists
to include in our proposed curriculum. Check out these interviews below:

Photo courtesy of Dr. Ileana Jiménez

Dr. Ileana Jiménez
Interview by Shannon Bennett

Dr. Ileana Jiménez is a recognized leader in the feminism-in-schools movement and creator of the hashtags, #HSfeminism and #K12feminism. She recently earned her PhD in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on Black and Latina feminisms, feminist and queer pedagogies, and digital feminist activism in the high school English classroom. She is @feministteacher on social media platforms. 

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Zoe Nicholson 
interview by Geneva Williams

Zoe Nicholson is a long time member of the National Organization and a life long activist for numerous civil rights causes including advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, protesting against the Vietnam War and working for the protection of LGBTQ+ rights. Zoe is the author of numerous books and currently works as a historian of Alice Paul

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Photos courtesy of Zoe Nicholson

Interview by Shannon Bennitt and Serene Williams

Mary Lee Sargent was a long time professor of women's studies and is an activist for women's rights. In the 1980s, Mary Lee Sargent was at the forefront of the struggle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Photo courtesy of Mary Lee Sargent

Interview by Geneva Williams

Father Anne is a devout Roman Catholic who was trained as a theologian. She is one of the most prominent leaders of the women's ordination movement in the United States.

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Photo courtesy of Father Anne

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Photo courtesy of Dr. Wendy Rouse

Interviews by Shannon Bennitt

Dr. Wendy Rouse is a progressive era historian and an expert on the women's suffrage movement. Her new book Public Faces, Secret Lives, traces the political work of queer suffragists

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Interview by Madison Verner

Julie Dobrow has an A.B. from Smith College in Anthropology and Sociology, and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in media studies from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Much of her research centers on the content and effects of media on children; on issues of gender and ethnicity in media; and on how children make sense of these images in the world of animated programming. Dobrow's other main research interests are in the intersection of women's history and communication studies, and in biography.

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