Sonoma County Gazette February 2022 article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio. Download pdf:
---- Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
on
February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
Click here for
the show's page. ---- Marianne Williamson has returned to Women's Spaces for
our show in 9/18/2023
Conversation. Previously she was on our 1/14/2013
and
2/25/2013 shows on Law of DivineCompensation.
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Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
Click the dates above for show's webpage.
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Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
---- , Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen returned
on
Monday June
29, 2020 as a guest on Women's Spaces to discuss the Millionth
Circle of women coming together.
Visit
the show's page by clicking here.
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When our representatives are making important
decisions that impact all of our lives I believe it is important to ask
one basic question before making
those decisions, Is this good for
the children? Just imagine what our world would be
like if that question was asked prior to making decisions about going to
war, the environment, education or healthcare.
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2/1/2022: Sonoma County Gazette February 2022
article on Women's Spaces
Celebrating 10 Years on Radio.
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1. Dorothy
Battenfeld , Vice-President, Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) Board of
Trustees
2. Hilary Moore, Co founder of Off the Page,
a Sebastopol- based Readers Theater group
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Our Featured Presentations
1.
Dorothy Battenfeld shares her journey to be a leader in
education, beginning with the mentoring of her mother who was active
in politics and elected to a public office, teaching Social
Scence at Montgomery High School for 30 years and then succesfully
elected to the Santa Rosa Junior College Board of Trustees. Dorothy
talks of the recent changes made at the JC in responding the the
CoronaVirus, having had to transform 95% of the classes to online
platforms. Over 300 laptops were loaned to students to
accomodate those students without such devices. Hot spots for
WiFi access to the internet classes have been set up around the
county for those with poor reception of internet. The recent
federal CARES Act allows for $500 emergency grants for students with
Social Security Numbers suffering econmic hardship because of the
pandemic . The SRJC Foundation has set up a Student
Crisis Fund, and donations can be given through the
SRJC
Foundation's website. Dorothy reminds us that we are today
building our future with education of our community members.
About our Guest:
Dorothy Battenfeld, elected to the Santa Rosa Junior College Board
of Trustees in 2014, currently serves as Board Vice-President. She
lives in Santa Rosa and represents the Santa Rosa-Rohnert Park area
on the seven-member Board. She serves on the California Community
College Advisory Committee on Legislation and on the Affordability,
Food and Housing Access Taskforce. Dorothy chairs the Santa Rosa
Board of Trustees Finance Committee and is a member of the
Scholarship Committee. A Social Science teacher at Montgomery High
School in Santa Rosa for 30 years, Dorothy coordinated Montgomery’s
highly regarded International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, which
she helped to found in 1995. In 2012, she was named International
Baccalaureate Teacher of the Year by the California Association of
IB World Schools, and has been awarded two Fulbright fellowships.
She is a strong supporter of community colleges and public education
and promoting better access and equity for all students.
2. Hilary Moore shares her
journey to co-founding the Off the Page Readers Theater (OTPRT) in
Sebastopol. Also a bit of background, just before Hilary came
on we heard the song No Sin to Be Poor sung and
composesd by Pi Jacobs, who is Hilary Moore’s daughter. Hilary talks
of the putting out the call for essays and writings from local
authors on a certain theme, making selections from these submissions
for the final script, and then presenting this at venues around the
county. Hilary reads a piece she has written for the show
Detour, originally scheduled for June but postponed
indefinitely to be announced via the
OTPRT's
website or
Facebook
page. Her essay recalls her "detour" delivering mail for
the US Postal Service.
About our Guest: Hilary Moore is co-founder of Off the Page,
a Sebastopol based Readers Theater group that is dedicated to
supporting the works of local writers and actors. Performances span
a wide range of material from comic, tragic, dark, light, and
beautiful.
Hilary had humble beginnings; her early roots were in Hunter's Point Housing Project in San Francisco. After several moves and upgrades, the family moved to Corte Madera.....quite a change! After graduating high school, she lived in Mexico City for 5 months, became bilingual, and started a lifelong love of
Latino culture. Hilary married at age 20, had their daughter at 21. She worked as a waitress, mail carrier, and teacher while raising her daughter as a single mom in SF,
and later in Graton. Her acting performances began in Improv in 1983. She moved to Redding, to Port Townsend WA., and finally back to Sonoma Co. Since retirement she's been teaching Spanish at home, and producing, directing, and acting in Off the Page Readers Theater.
May 1, 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African-American
woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, named Library of
Congress’s Consultant in Poetry (later called Poet Laureate) in 1985
May 5, 1938 – Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen presents results of her
medical research identifying the disease cystic fibrosis at a
meeting of the American Pediatric Association
May 6 – 12 Nurses Week
May 8, 1914 – President Woodrow Wilson signs a Proclamation
designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day
May 10, 1872 – Victoria Woodhull is nominated as the first woman
candidate for U.S. president for the Equal Rights Party
Her Birthdays This Week
May 1, 1830 (1930) – Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, labor leader and organizer
May 1, 1924 – Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University (Yale, 1949)
May 3, 1898 (1987) – Septima Clark, educator, civil rights activist, called “The Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement”
May 3, 1901 (1981) – Estelle Massey Osborne, first African-American nurse to earn a master’s degree, integrated the American Nurses Association and served on its board of directors (1948-52)
May 3, 1912 (1995) – May Sarton, prolific writer, poet, and memoirist, published in Poetry magazine at 17 years of age, she also taught at several universities including Harvard and Wellesley
May 5, 1921 (2008) – Del Martin, lesbian rights pioneer, who along with her wife Phyllis Ann Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis in San Francisco (1955) the first social and political organization for lesbians in the U.S., they were the first same-sex couple to be married in California (2004 and 2008)
Check links in case of postponements or
cancellations due to pandemic precautions.
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January 25 through September 13, 2020, From Suffrage to
#MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County. Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For
more information visit
https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/
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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has
scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See
their webpage listing the events at
https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/
The Opening and Closing Theme song is with
permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:
The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album
Living with Lavender Jane (Women's Wax Works) -
www.alixdobkin.com
Shed a Little Light sung by Diana Jarkuff from the Album
All Around the World in One Bloody Night (2006 ATS - Records)
No Sin to Be Poor sung by Pi Jacobs from the album Two
Truths and A Lie (2020 That Crazy Chick Music /ASCAP)
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Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams returned
on
February 12,
2024 discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and in
Music. and previously on
May 11, 2020,
June 8, 2020, and
July 6, 2020
with a 3-part series of
Feminism and Black Lives Matter.
Click here for
the show's page.
Attorney
Gloria Allred
has returned to Women's Spaces for our
July 11, 2022 show
on the SCOTUS Reversal of Roe v Wade and Next Steps.
She also contributed as a guest on
March 5, 2018, and on
June
15, 2020.
Lynn
Woolsey, Congress-woman (Retired) returned on
10/16/2023
and on 8/162021 to speak on bold
steps for our Nation to take.
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