March 22, 2022
Ain't I a Woman!: A Musical Theatrical Presentation by Core Ensemble
3:00 PM | Virtual Zoom Webinar
Fannie Lou Hamer | Clementine Hunter | Zora Neale Hurston | Sojourner Truth
African American | Women | Activism |Leadership
"A chamber music theatre work for actress and trio (cello, piano & percussion) celebrating the lives and times of four significant African American women: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist Sojourner Truth, renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, exuberant folks artist Clementine Hunter and fervent civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. Text is by Kim Hines. The musical score is drawn from the heartfelt spirituals of the Deep South, the urban exuberance of the Jazz Age and concert music by African American composers including Diane Monroe."
Ain't I Woman: Full Show
Latinas in Business Leadership, A Panel Discussion
6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Virtual Zoom Webinar
Latinas; Success; Empowerment
An engaging dialogue about Latinas engaged in local business and leadership roles. Themes of achieving success, overcoming challenges, embracing empowerment, and finding the secrets to business collaboration and partnerships. Brought to you by the BC Women’s History and More Committee (WHAM).
Faculty Coordinator and Moderator: Olivia Garcia, Professor of History and Chairwoman of the KCHCC
March 24, 2022
Distinguished Speaker Erika Sánchez: Novelist, Poet & Feminist
10 a.m. & 2 p.m. | Live via Zoom and BCSGA Facebook
Zoom Registration 10 a.m. | Zoom Registration 2 p.m.
Erika L. Sánchez is a novelist, poet, feminist, and cheerleader for young women everywhere. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Young Adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the acclaimed debut poetry collection, Lessons in Expulsion (Graywolf Press, 2017), which the Washington Post called “a fierce, assertive debut.” Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Poets.org, Vinyl Poetry, Guernica, diode, Boston Review, the Paris Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. Her poetry has also been featured on “Latino USA” on NPR and published in Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation (Viking 2015).
The daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants, Sánchez grew up in the working-class town of Cicero, IL. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from the University of Illinois at Chicago, then went onto Madrid, Spain on a Fulbright Scholarship. After her scholarship, she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where she received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Chicago.
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