10 Feb Women’s Rights In Post-Roe America
Hosted by Marianne Schnall
With reproductive freedom experiencing unprecedented rollbacks in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, women’s bodily autonomy and lives are under attack. Now is the time to educate ourselves about the implications of legislation already passed and to take action to make sure that we protect our hard-won rights and not further regress. This timely panel will feature three award-winning writers offering their valuable perspectives and visions of a path forward: Jessica Valenti, one of the leading journalists reporting on the state of abortion rights in the U.S. and author of the New York Times bestselling book Abortion. Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win, Clara Bingham, former journalist and political insider and author of The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973 and Jamia Wilson, social impact strategist, Executive Editor of Random House, and author of Make Good Trouble, This Book Is Feminist among others. The panel will be moderated by widely published journalist and Forbes contributor Marianne Schnall, author of What Will It Take To Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership & Power and the founder of Feminist.com
Marianne Schnall is the author of What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership & Power, Leading the Way, and Dare to Be You: Inspirational Advice for Girls. She is also a widely published journalist, interviewer, and ForbesWomen contributor whose work has appeared at CNN.com, Huffington Post, TIME.com, O, The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, Women’s Media Center, and many other media outlets. She is the founder of Feminist.com and What Will It Take Movements and the host of the podcast ShiftMakers, which highlights exclusive insights of luminaries and movement makers as they share wisdom on how to be an authentic changemaker today.
Clara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Movement, Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill, and the cowriter of Class Action (which was adapted into the feature film North Country). A former Washington, DC, correspondent for Newsweek, her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Jessica Valenti is a writer, activist, and one of the country’s most influential voices on gender and politics. The award-winning author of eight books—including the New York Times bestseller Abortion—she has shaped the national conversation on feminism for over two decades. Jessica’s groundbreaking anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape helped define the modern definition of consent and paved the way for legislation of the same name. She is also widely credited with sparking feminism’s online wave as the founder of the trailblazing blog Feministing. A former columnist for The Guardian and The Nation, Jessica’s sharp, uncompromising analysis has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and on media outlets from CNN to The Daily Show. She speaks at colleges and organizations nationwide about feminism, abortion, and sexual violence. After the fall of Roe, Jessica founded Abortion, Every Day, an urgent synthesis of anything and everything happening with abortion rights in the United States. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
Jamia Wilson is an award-winning feminist activist, writer, speaker, and podcaster. She became vice president and executive editor at Random House in 2021. As the former director of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York and the previous VP of programs at the Women’s Media Center, Jamia has been a prominent voice on women’s rights issues for more than a decade.
She is the author of Make Good Trouble, This Book Is Feminist, Young, Gifted, and Black, Young, Gifted and Black Too, the introduction and oral history in Together We Rise, Step Into Your Power, Big Ideas for Young Thinkers, ABC’s of AOC, and the co-author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries.
Jamia is on the boards of the Omega Institute, ERA Coalition, and Center for Reproductive Rights. She is also the co-host of the second season of the Anthem Award-winning podcast, Ordinary Equality.
Get a Full Festival pass and you’ll get to take in the Story Slam on Thursday night. Then sail into the weekend: attending all the wonderful panels, both parties, and both evening events. And share the bounty from our always-stuffed goody bag.
