Conference Presentations
- CONFERENCE OPENING AND WELCOME
- DEBORAH SLANER LARKIN
- LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
- AMY RICHARDS
- SESSION 1: WITNESSES: What Happened?
- LANI GUINIER
- CATHARINE A. MACKINNON
- CHARLES OGLETREE
- JUDITH RESNIK
- JAMIA WILSON
- DOROTHY J. SAMUELS
- SESSION 2: RESPONDERS: What Does Anita Hill Mean To You?
- RHA GODDESS
- MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY
- EMILY MAY
- AI-JEN POO
- JOANNE N. SMITH
- PAT MITCHELL
- LUNCHTIME DISCUSSIONS
- RECONVENE
- JENNIFER J. RAAB
- KEYNOTE: A CONVERSATION WITH ANITA HILL
- PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS
- ANITA HILL
- SESSION 3: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 20 YEARS & WHAT COMES NEXT?
- DEVON CARBADO
- KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW
- KATHLEEN PERATIS
- GLORIA STEINEM
- VIRGINIA VALIAN
- JULIE ZEILINGER
- CONFERENCE CLOSING
- VITA C. RABINOWITZ
- CONFERENCE OPENING AND WELCOME
- Edwidge Danticat
- Asali Devan Ecclesiastes
- Eve Ensler
- Deborah Copaken Kogan
- Lisa Kron
- Lynn Nottage
- Olivia Oguma
- Kevin Powell
- Anika Noni Rose
- Hope Anita Smith
SUPPORT This Historic Conference
“Speaking Truth to Power”
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A performance Co-Curated by Eve Ensler and Purva Panday Cullman
The performance will be held at the Kaye Playhouse, East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues.
EVE ENSLER
Eve Ensler is a Tony award winning playwright, performer and activist. She is the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, which has been published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries.
EDWIDGE DANTICAT*
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak! *Edwidge Danticat will not be performing. Anika Noni Rose will be reading a piece by Edwidge Danticat.
ASALI DEVAN ECCLESIASTES
Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes is a mother, educator, event producer, spoken word artist, and as a newlywed, remains a community servant. She is the co-founder and Executive Producer of the Akoben Words-In-Action Festival.
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN
Deborah Copaken Kogan is a bestselling memoirist (Shutterbabe); novelist (Between Here and April & the soon-to-be-released The Red Book); story-teller (The Moth; Six-Word Memoir); and journalist (Financial Times; The New York Times; The New Yorker; etc.)
LISA KRON
Lisa Kron has been writing and performing theater since coming to New York from Michigan in 1984. Her play, Well opened to critical acclaim on Broadway at the Longacre Theater in March of 2006 and received two Tony nominations.
LYNN NOTTAGE
Lynn Nottage is a playwright from Brooklyn. Her plays include Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, and Ruined. They have been produced and developed at theatres both nationally and internationally.
OLIVIA OGUMA
Olivia Oguma is a NYC based actress, singer and artist. She has appeared on Broadway, national tours, regional productions and among her accomplishments, she was honored with a Critics Circle Award for her performance in Julia Cho's BFE (Playwrights Horizons and Long Wharf). Olivia Ogumn will be reading a piece by Mary Oliver.
MARY OLIVER*
A private person by nature, Mary Oliver has given very few interviews over the years. Instead, she prefers to let her work speak for itself. And speak it has, The New York Times recently acknowledged Mary Oliver as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet. *Mary Oliver will not be performing. Her piece will be performed by Olivia Oguma.
KEVIN POWELL
Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and this will bring the deepest revolution of all."
ANIKA NONI ROSE
Anika Noni Rose is a Tony Award-winning actress who is best known for her role in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change, and the films Dreamgirls and The Princess and the Frog. Anika Noni Rose will be reading a piece by Edwidge Danticat.
HOPE ANITA SMITH
Hope Anita Smith is the author of three books. Her first book The Way A Door Closes won several awards including, The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, the Judy Lopez Award from the Women’s National Book Association, the Claudia Lewis Award from Bank Street College.
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