Conference Announcement

Please join us for this year's IRWGS Graduate-Organized Conference, "Practicing Utopia: Feminism and Activism in Institutional Contexts," to be held Friday, February 26th, 9 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. in Butler Library, Room 523, with reception to follow from 5:15-6 p.m.

The keynote will be given by Heather McGhee, president of the public policy center Demos. Panelists include:

- Brandee C. Blocker (No Red Tape; JD Candidate, Columbia Law)
- Barbara Bowen (President, Professional Staff Congress - CUNY)
- Jennifer Finney Boylan (Author of She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders; Anna Quindlen Writer-in-Residence, Barnard College)
- Lindsey Dayton (Labor Organizer; Columbia PhD student, History)
- Andi Dixon (The Columbia Center for Justice; Columbia PhD candidate, Communications)
- Jenna Freedman (Zine Librarian, Barnard College)
- Ellie Hisama (Columbia Professor of Music; IRWGS faculty)
- Jean Howard (George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University)
- Rachel S Blum Levy (Bluestockings Bookstore, Co-Founder/Assistant Editor of Hoax feminist zine)
-Megan Reid (Senior Literary Scout, Greenburger Associates)
- Maida Rosenstein (President, United Auto Workers - Local 2110)
- Karen D. Taylor (Founder and Executive Director, While We Are Still Here: Preserving Harlem's History)

This conference has been organized in conjunction with the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) annual Scholar and Feminist Conference to be held the following day on Saturday, 2/27 and the NYC Feminist Zinefest on 2/28.

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