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Sharing Stories: the 1977 National Women's Conference

Introduction to the Sharing Stories Digital Humanities Project

• Stephanie Narrow, doctoral student, history, University of California, Irvine
• Nancy Beck Young, professor, history, University of Houston

Presentations

• “Diane Abbit” by Haleigh Marcello, doctoral student, history, UCI
• "Jeri Dilno" by Eleanor Terner, general biology, class of '21, UCSD
• "Mary Maschal" by Sarah Villar, history and ecology, behavior & evolution, class of '21, UCSD
• "Dorothy M. Tucker" by Mayra Alejandra Chang, political science, class of '21, UCI
• "Nelda Ojeda Wyland" by Tracy Morse, history, class of '22, UCSD

Meet the Delegates and Attendees

Moderators

• Emily Nicole Anderson, English, class of '21, UCI
• Justine Trinh, Asian American studies, M.A., class of '18, UCI

Roundtable Conversation

• Gregoria Baty Smith, represented Guam and appointed to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year
• Rita Brogan (formerly Elway), represented Washington and appointed to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year
• Mariko Tse Kahn, represented California
• Dr. Tin Myaing Thein, represented Maryland and member of the President's Advisory Committee for Women
• Jane Yamashiro, represented Alaska

Video Interview with Mitsuye Yamada, conference attendee, poet, writer, feminist, human rights activist, contributor to This Bridge Called My Back (1981), author of Camp Notes and Other Poems (1976), Desert Run (1988), both of which are available in the combined volume: Camp Notes and Other Writings (1998), and Full Circle (2019)

Honored Guests

• Hesung Chun Koh, a scholar, artist, author, delegate at large from Connecticut to the 1977 National Women's conference, and a member of the White House Committee for the Observance of International Women's Decade, co-founder and the chair of East Rock Institute and retired faculty, Yale University
• Gloria Kumagai, delegate from Minnesota, educational advocate, and faculty member at Walden University
• Juanita Tamayo Lott, retired federal demographer/statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau; directed the first Office of Asian American Affairs, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, veteran activist of the 1968 San Francisco State Black State Union/Third World Liberation Front strike and 1969 College of Ethnic Studies.  Juanita's latest book is Golden Children: Legacy of Ethnic Studies, SF State. A Memoir
• Irene Natividad, first Asian American chair of the National Women's Political Caucus and President of GlobeWomen Research and Education Institute
• Dr. Laura Souder, represented Guam and author of Daughters of the Island: Contemporary Chamorro Women Organizers
• Jeni Yamada, conference attendee from California
• Judy Hom Yasutake, represented Colorado

Co-sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center and Professor Rebecca Jo Plant at UCSD. For more information, contact Professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (j.wu@uci.edu)