International Women's Day 2020

SPEAKER LIST

Robert J. Jones
Chancellor
Recognized Woman: Barbara McClintock

Shanondora Billiot
School of Social Work 
Recognized Woman: Evelyn Blanchard

Cynthia Buckley
Department of Sociology
Recognized Woman: Tatyana Zavslavskaya

Jennifer L. Davis
Department of Anthropology
Recognized Woman: Suzan Harjo

Margareth Etienne
College of Law
Recognized Woman: Shirley Chisholm

Irvin Joseph Hunt 
Department of English
Recognized Woman: Ella Jo Baker

King Li
Dean, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Recognized Woman: Tu Youyou

Gioconda Guerra Perez
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity
Recognized Woman: Mercedes Sosa

Gene E. Robinson
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recognized Woman: May Berenbaum

Medra Roberts-Southerland
Diversity Committees and Advocacy
Recognized Woman: Marian Wright Edelman

Gabriel Solis
Head, Department of Theatre
Recognized Woman: Eileen Southern

Ruth Sosnoff
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Recognized Woman: Grace Hopper

Recommended Links

Barbara McClintock

• “A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock” by Evelyn Fox Keller (book) 
• Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) by Federica Turriziani Colonna (website) 
• Barbara McClintock Nobel Lecture: The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge (lecture) 
• Barbara McClintock (tribute film) 

Tatyana Zavslavskaya

• Revolution: An Alternative Soviet Strategy (Second World) by Tatyana Zaslavskaya (book)

Suzan Harjo

• Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations by Suzan Shown Harjo (book)
• “Suzan Shown Harjo Delivers the 2008 Native American History Month Keynote Address” (speech)
• “Nation to Nation: 17 Great Nations Keep Their Word – Suzan Shown Harjo”  (talk)

Shirley Chisholm

• “Unbought and Unbossed” by Shirley Chisholm (autobiography)
• “Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm” by Tonya Bolden (biography)
• “Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed” (film)
• “Shirley” (upcoming Netflix film)

Ella Jo Baker

• “Ella Baker and The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender & American Culture)” by Barbara Ransby (book) 
• “Baker, Ella Josephine” (biography) 
• “Ella Baker: A Legacy of Grassroots Leadership—Nationals" (documentary) 
• “Ella Baker - ‘The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’” (video) 

Tu Youyou

• “Women who changed science: Tu Youyou” (nobelprize.org) 
• “Tu Youyou and the Discovery of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine” by Yi Rao, Daqing Zhang, & Runhong Li (book) 
• ‘Nobel Lecture: Tu Youyou” (lecture) 
• “Interview: Tu Youyou” (Nobel interview) 

Mercedes Sosa

• “Mercedes Sosa – The Voice of Hope: My life-transforming encounter” by Anette Christensen
• “Mercedes Sosa: Más Que Una Canción [Mercedes Sosa: More than a Song]” by Anette Christensen (audiobook) 
• “Mercedes Sosa: The singer who gave voice to her people’s struggle outlived several tyrants.” By Susannah Black Roberts (live recording and story) 
• “Mercedes Sosa – Gracias A La Vida” (live song recording) 

May Berenbaum

• “May Berenbaum” (website) 
• “Life: The Science of Biology, 9th Edition” by May Berenbaum and others 
• “Illinois Pioneers with May Berenbaum – October 9, 2014” (talk) 
• “Making Their Mark: May Berenbaum” (documentary)

Marian Wright Edelman

• “Marian Wright Edelman: Founder and President Emerita” (website) 
• “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours” by Marian Wright Edelman 
• “Light the Way Home: Eileen Southern’s Story || Harvard Radcliffe Institute” (animated video) 
• “Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern’s Story || Harvard Radcliffe Institute” (webinar) 

Grace Hopper

• “Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992): A legacy of innovation and service” (website) 
• “Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age) Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)” by Kurt W. W. Beyer (book) 
• “March 6, 1983: Grace Hopper—She taught computers to talk” (video) 
• “Grace Hopper Lecture” (lecture)