Tag: Mary Louise Smith Chair

Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics – Sen. Amy Klobuchar

Amy Klobuchar became the first woman elected to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate in 2006 and is currently serving her second term in office. Senator Klobuchar has built a reputation for working across party lines, including on landmark pieces of legislation to end human trafficking, to combat the opioid epidemic, and to improve the … Continue reading Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics – Sen. Amy Klobuchar

August 31, 2017, 7:30pm | Great Hall, Memorial Union

“The Good Girls Revolt: Women, Work and Politics”

Award-winning journalist Lynn Povich — the author of the book “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace” — will visit Iowa State University on Thursday, Dec. 1, as the fall 2016 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Povich, the first female senior editor at … Continue reading “The Good Girls Revolt: Women, Work and Politics”

December 1, 2016, 7:00pm | Great Hall, Memorial Union