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Dangerous Women, Effective Changemakers – Film and Panel Discussion

October 18, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Women changemakers have been often labeled “dangerous,” but their voices and actions have been essential in creating positive change and remain so today. A public forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County and UWM Women’s & Gender Studies, presents the pilot episode of a documentary series on this topic, along with a diverse panel of younger “dangerous women” changemakers.

Panelists include: Lauren Feaster, the CEO of Professional Dimensions, the leading women’s professional association in the Milwaukee area; Arvina Martin, the first Native person ever elected to Madison’s Common Council, and now the Executive Director of Emerge Wisconsin, which recruits and trains women to run for public office; Marcelia Nicholson, the first Black woman and Latina elected as Chairwoman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, recently re-elected for her second term.

An audience Q&A will follow the panel, along with refreshments and the opportunity for informal interaction with the panelists. Continuing the League of Women Voters’ century-long efforts to ensure voting rights, League of Women Voters members will staff a voter registration table.

The Most Dangerous Women series of documentary shorts is a project of Milwaukee-based New Moon Productions, under the direction of Janet Fitch. It presents the stories of women changemakers, and invites viewers to discover and document women in their own families, communities, and regions working towards a more just and equitable world. The pilot episode begins in 1869, when Wyoming becomes the only territory in the world to specifically recognize women’s right to vote and to hold elected office, a full 50 years before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Watch the trailer at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v_xzmeqMLSmnkS_ak7WBSiq7bAj9Qphl/view


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Date:
October 18, 2022
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Mitchell Hall, Room 191
3203 N. Downer Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53211 United States
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