Team building, event planning, volunteering

Heatherly Hodges: Religion and child abuse, trauma

Jadehawk: Sociology and Social Theory topics relevant to secularism

Sarah Kaiser: Activism, blogging and other social media

Lauren Lane: Grassroots organizing, Women and Atheism

Lyz Liddell: Group-running, leadership, gender diversity strategies

Melanie Mallon: Humor as empowerment, secular parenting

MA Melby: Education, Navigating male dominated spaces

Ashley Miller: Film, TV, feminism, gay rights, activism, communication

Sarah Morehead: Recovering from religion, secular home-schooling

Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson: Reproductive Rights

Kim Rippere: Secular woman, atheism & feminism, feminism

Elsa Roberts: Secular woman, Christian fundamentalism

Brittany Shoots-Reinhardt: Applications of Psychology to Humanism

Corinne Zimmerman: Secular woman, atheism and feminism

Stephanie Zvan: Psychological pseudoscience, cognitive biases

University of Minnesota Distinguished Women Scholars Awards

The University of Minnesota gives annual Distinguished Women Scholars Awards named after Ada Louise Comstock, who was the University’s first Dean of Women in 1907. She laterled Smith College, but was denied the title of president because she was a woman.

2017 Ananya Chatterjea, Theater, Arts, and Dance

2017 Lela Pierce, Painting

2016: Sarah Hobbie, Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour

2016 Joan G. Cox, Painting

2015: Anna Clark, History

2015 Jil Evans, Painting

2014 Carol A. Lange, Medicine and Pharmacology

2014 DC Ice, Painting

2013: Denise Guerin, Interior Design

2013 Sara Balbin, Sculpture

2012 Karen Mesce, Entomology

2012 Nickdokht (Nicky) Torkzadeh, Painting

2011: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, History of Science and Technology

2011 Jude Ryan Reiling, Ceramics

2010 Deborah Swackhamer, Chemistry & Public Health

2010 Jude Ryan Reiling, Ceramics

2009 Rose Brewer, African American & African Studies

2009 Ida Kumoji-Ankrah, Textiles

2009: Jane Davidson, Mechanical Engineering

2009 Stacy Kelly, Glass

2008 Sara Evans, History

2008 Joyce Lyon, Lithography

2008: Maria Gini, Computer Science and Engineering

2008 Margaret Bohis, Ceramics

2007 Joanne B. Eicher, Design, Housing, & Apparel

2007 Judith Kinghorn, Metal

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