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WTF (What The Feminist) is Happening in Ohio Politics?! Feminists Engage with Electoral Politics, Policy and Freedom

WTF
April 1, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Thompson Library, 11th Floor

The FREE Center (Ohio State’s Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement) invites you to our inaugural event, a panel discussion of this year’s election and the transformative potentials of a reinvigorated feminist commitment to political action and candidates. 

This conversation is vital in the contemporary context of increased threats to reproductive freedom, trans healthcare and LGBTQA+ rights, libraries and anti-censorship movements, and more. 

Join our panel of four experts for a lively conversation moderated by Senior Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at OSU, Dr. Wendy Smooth. 

Panelists include: 

  • Maria Bruno, Public Policy Director at LGBTQA+ advocacy organization Equity Ohio, where she leads legislative strategy and engagement for public policy
     
  • Jessie Hill, Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, with expertise in constitutional law and civil rights, currently litigating numerous challenges to abortion restrictions in Ohio 
     
  • Barbara Palmer, Professor of Political Science at Baldwin Wallace University and an expert on women running for public office and the challenges and opportunities women face as candidates 
     
  • Emily Quick Schriver '05, leader of The Matriots, which has a mission to elect more Ohio women to public office 
     

Refreshments provided.