Julia Morgan was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon,California.
Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland,California is part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia,California;it was relocated to Oakland in 1871 and became the first women's college west of the Rockies. In 2022,it merged with Northeastern University following several years of alleged financial difficulties.
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an American author,educator,sociologist,speaker,Black liberation activist,and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
Siobhan Brooks is an African-American lesbian feminist sociologist known for her work with African-American women sex workers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in women's studies from San Francisco State University,and a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from New School University in New York City. She is currently Professor of African-American studies at California State University,Fullerton.
The feminist school of criminology is a school of criminology developed in the late 1960s and into the 1970s as a reaction to the general disregard and discrimination of women in the traditional study of crime. It is the view of the feminist school of criminology that a majority of criminological theories were developed through studies on male subjects and focused on male criminality,and that criminologists often would "add women and stir" rather than develop separate theories on female criminality.
Kathleen Marie Blee is an American sociologist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of interest include gender,race and racism,social movements,and sociology of space and place. Special interests include how gender influences racist movements,including work on women in the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
Cindi Katz,a geographer,is Professor in Environmental Psychology,Earth and Environmental Sciences,American Studies,and Women's Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of space,place and nature;children and the environment;the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life;the privatization of the public environment,the intertwining of memory and history in the geographical imagination,and the intertwined spatialities of homeland and home-based security. She is known for her work on social reproduction and everyday life,research on children's geographies,her intervention on "minor theory",and the notion of counter-topography,which is a means of recognizing the historical and geographical specificities of particular places while inferring their analytic connections to specific material social practices.
Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt was an American educator,activist,and prominent member and leader of numerous organizations. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California,Berkeley,her doctoral dissertation at Yale,and studied as a fellow at Oxford. After teaching at the University of Idaho,the Lewiston State Normal School,and with the Extension Division of the University of California,Reinhardt was elected president of Mills College in 1916,and held the position until 1943,making her the longest serving president in the history of the school.
Lateefah Simon is an elected member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors and the president of MeadowFund,a donor-advised fund created by Patricia Quillin,the wife of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings. Simon was previously the president of Akonadi Foundation,an organization focused on racial justice in Oakland,California. In 2003,she received a MacArthur Fellowship for her leadership of the Center for Young Women's Development from age 19.
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco,California. The university's main campus is located on a 55-acre (22 ha) setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hilltop" and is split into two sections within a block of each other. Part of the main campus is located on Lone Mountain,one of San Francisco's major geographical features. Its close historical ties with the City and County of San Francisco are reflected in the university's traditional motto,Pro Urbe et Universität.
Amy Sueyoshi is the provost of San Francisco State University. Sueyoshi is a trained historian specializing in sexuality,gender,and race. Her publications and lectures focus on issues regarding race and sexuality such as cross-dressing,pornography,and marriage equality.
Madeleine Lim is a filmmaker,producer,director,cinematographer and LGBTQ activist. She is the founding Executive Director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP),and an adjunct professor of film studies at the University of San Francisco. Lim is also a co-founder of SAMBAL and the US Asian Lesbian Network in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Multiracial feminist theory is promoted by women of color (WOC),including Black,Latina,Asian,Native American,and anti-racist white women. In 1996,Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill wrote “Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism," a piece emphasizing intersectionality and the application of intersectional analysis within feminist discourse.
Rev. Trinity Ordoña is a lesbian Filipino-American college teacher,activist,community organizer,and ordained minister currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is notable for her grassroots work on intersectional social justice. Her activism includes issues of voice and visibility for Asian/Pacific gay,lesbian,bisexual,transgender and queer individuals and their families,Lesbians of color,and survivors of sexual abuse. Her works include her dissertation Coming Out Together:an ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander queer women's and transgendered people's movement of San Francisco, as well as various interviews and articles published in anthologies like Filipino Americans:Transformation and Identity and Asian/Pacific Islander American Women:A Historical Anthology. She co-founded Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride (APIFP),which "[sustains] support networks for API families with members who are LGBTQ," founded Healing for Change,"a CCSF student organization that sponsors campus-community healing events directed to survivors of violence and abuse," and is currently an instructor in the Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual and Transgender Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.
Mary Romero is an American sociologist. She is Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University,with affiliations in African and African American Studies,Women and Gender Studies,and Asian Pacific American Studies. Before her arrival at ASU in 1995,she taught at University of Oregon,San Francisco State University,and University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Professor Romero holds a bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in Spanish from Regis College in Denver,Colorado. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado. In 2019,she served as the 110th President of the American Sociological Association.
Margo Okazawa-Rey,is an American professor emerita,educator,writer,and social justice activist,who is most known as a founding member of the Combahee River Collective,and for her transnational feminist advocacy.
Black Womantalk was a British publishing cooperative of women of African and Asian descent founded in 1983.
Melinda Beth Coker Micco was an American filmmaker,scholar,activist,and educator. She was a professor of ethnic studies at Mills College,and the first Native American woman to earn tenure at Mills.
Lynn Mahoney is an American university president,author,and social historian. Mahoney is the president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) since July 2019,and is the first woman to hold this role. Her scholarly work has focused on United States history,women's history,feminism,race studies,and ethnicity. She is the author of Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture;a book about novelist and poet Elizabeth Stoddard.
Petrona Lashley was a British Labour politician and community activist. She was Liverpool's first black Deputy Lord Mayor,and one of its earliest black councillors.
