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EVENT SPONSORS:
- League of Women Voters of Lee County
- Office of Community Outreach Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU)
- Institutional Equity and Compliance Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU)
Celebrate Women's Suffrage and honor the struggle. Increase understanding of the value and process for voting, engage with a better understanding of issues today and why voting matters.
Featured speaker, Jamie Abrams Professor of Law, University of Louisville
will use the lessons of our history to inform our present and our future: what has it meant for women to vote, to serve as elected officials, changes in last 100 years and challenges today. Jamie R. Abrams teaches Torts, Family Law, Legislation, and Women and the Law. Her research focuses on reproductive and birthing decision-making, gendered violence, legal protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence, and legal education pedagogy. Her most recent publications include The Polarization of Reproductive Decision-Making and Parental Decision-Making forthcoming in the Florida State Law Review and The #MeToo Movement: A Feminist Invitation to Critique the Crisis Framing of Sexual Assault Responses published in the University of Richmond Law Review (2018). More information and her publications are available at Jamie R. Abrams — Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (louisville.edu)
The League of Women Voters, founded by leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, for more than 100 years, has been a nonpartisan, activist, grassroots organization. The League believes voters play a critical role in democracy and continues the fight to protect the rights of eligible voters and to expand access for those who have been left out of our democratic process. The League works to educate and empower voters, advocates, and when necessary takes legal actions. Challenges that threaten to compromise our democracy include voter suppression and discrimination at the local, state and national level.
Moderator: Precious Gunter, Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance, FGCU