Professor Brittney Yancy, Associate Professor of Humanities at Goodwin University, will present a lecture titled, “Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color and Voting Rights.” Professor Yancy is an intersectional scholar-activist and is committed to fighting for a gender inclusive movement for racial justice. She is currently completing her Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut and her current research focuses on 20th century U.S. social movements, urban radicalism, critical race theory, women’s activism, and black women’s political and intellectual history.  

She is also a League of Women Voters of Connecticut’s Women’s Suffrage Research grant fellow working with the Connecticut Historical Society on the project: “The Work Must Be Done” Digital Archive which highlights new research about CT’s women of color who worked for women’s voting rights from 1890-1940. In 2018, Professor Yancy was appointed as the Greater Hartford Ambassador to the United States of Women. In 2019, She was appointed to the Board of Connecticut’s State Education Resource Center and serves on the steering committees for Connecticut’s Social Studies Standards Project and the Governor’s Council on Women and Girls. This program honors Women’s History Month and is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Ridgefield.

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