GENDER INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS
WAPUSH Oral Interviews:
The WAPUSH team has been collecting original oral interviews with scholars and 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.
Gloria La Riva
Interviewed by Madison Verner
Karen Jolna
Interviewed by Brooke Soderbery
Karon Jolna, Ph.D., is a scholar-activist with two decades of experience in nonprofit feminist media and higher education. Currently she serves as program director and editor at Ms. magazine, leading its efforts to bring women’s, gender and sexuality studies analyses and voices to a broader national audience. Previously she served as a lecturer of gender studies at UCLA and research scholar at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. Jolna was among the first cohort to earn a Ph.D. in women’s studies at Emory University.
Gloria La Riva is a former presidential candidate and an activist for immigrants, working class people and women. She is a national leader in the Socialism and Liberation Party
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
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.
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.
Photo courtesy of Father Anne
Photo courtesy of Dr. Wendy Rouse
Dr. Wendy Rouse:
On Suffrage History
On the Women's Self Defense Movement
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
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.
Dr. Bettina Aptheker
Professor, Feminist Activist & Leader of the Free Speech Movement
A widely regarded scholar of U.S. and women's history, Aptheker taught one of the most influential introductory feminist studies courses for nearly three decades at UC Santa Cruz. She was also a leader of the free speech movement at UC Berkeley in the 1960s
WAPUSH Interview with Sarah Schulman
Interview by Brooke Soderbery
WAPUSH Interview with Dr. Bonnie Morris
Interview by Brooke Soderbery