The SIUE Women’s Studies Program is proud to sponsor
coffee with cool women
conversations with women of imagination and accomplishment
This program originated in a series of conversations with successful women about their career paths. As one might expect, many cited long-term relationships with mentors in their field as crucial to their choices, but, more surprisingly, they also spoke about much briefer encounters with women who made them think, “Wow. I want to do that. I can do that.” Coffee With Cool Women, then, is a series of one-hour conversations in which “cool women”—women who have chosen interesting, challenging, and sometimes unconventional careers—meet with a small group of SIUE students to talk about the pleasures, frustrations, and surprises of their professional lives thus far. The setting is casual, the conversation is candid, and the coffee is fresh.
All CWCW sessions are held in the Women’s Studies Office (Peck 3407) and seating is limited. To reserve your space, contact Prof. Catherine Seltzer, cseltze@siue.edu or at 618-650-2256.
Upcoming Coffee With Cool Women Sessions:
Monday, January 28, 12:00-1:00 PM
Journalist Nancy Cambria
Women’s Studies Center, Peck Hall 3407
Our first CWCW this Sprting will feature St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Nancy Cambria. Nancy’s reporting focuses on children and families at risk, with an emphasis on foster care, child care safety, and juvenile justice in Missouri and southern Illinois, and it has led to proposed laws on child care safety in Missouri (Nathan’s Law and Sam Pratt’s Law).
Monday, February 11, 12:00-1:00
Entrepreneur Bev George
Women’s Studies Center, Peck Hall 3407
Bev has succeeded in a number of fields: she has been a model, a high school English teacher, and an entrepreneur. (She has been the broker-owner of Bev George and Associates in Edwardsville since 1986.) Bev will be talking about the role of risk-taking in her professional life, as well as balancing her work with motherhood, a passion for travel, and community service.
Monday, April 8, 11:00-12:00
cwcw: Writer, Producer, and Director Elizabeth Massie
Women’s Studies Center, Peck Hall 3407
We’ll be screening writer/director/producer Liz Massie’s documentary Companeras, which looks at America’s first all-female mariachi band, on Wednesday, April 3 at 1:30 in Peck Hall 0306, and she’ll be talking about her experiences as a writer/producer/director of Companeras and the documentary What a Girl Wants to a diverse range of television shows, from Unusual Suspects to Toddlers and Tiaras at 1:30 on April 8 in Peck 0306. In this CWCW session, Liz will talk specifically about some of the challenges and satisfaction in television and movie-making.
Our Cool Women Hall of Fame:
Caroline Pender, Owner, 222 Bakery
Dr. Elizabeth Ferries-Rowe, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana University
Elise Waldman, Genome Analyst
Joann Condellone, Midwife, Activist
Lt. Carole Presson, Madison County Sheriff’s Office
Prof. Jennifer Horney, Deputy Director, UNC Center for Public Heath Preparedness
Dail Chambers, Artist, Activist, and co-founder of the the YeTo Arts Collective and Gya Gallergy, http://yeyoarts.blogspot.com/
Veronique LaCapra, biologist and science reporter for 90.6 KWMU St. Louis Public Radio. http://www.news.stlpublicradio.org/term/science
