THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 8:00 PM | Pay-What-You-Choose Preview
FEATURED RESPONDER: Dr. Laura Meyers
Dr. Laura Meyers is currently CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. Prior to joining PPMW in 2008, Laura was CEO of Planned Parenthood of Western New York. Dr. Meyers currently serves on the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Board of Directors as well as the Vice Chair of Affiliate Risk Management Services board. She is also the former Chair of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association’s Board of Directors. |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 7:30 PM | Pay-What-You-Choose Preview
FEATURED RESPONDER: Alli Tombros Korman
Alli (she/her) is the Senior Operations and Strategy Director for the DC Abortion Fund, which for 27 years has been making grants to pregnant people living in or traveling to the DC area for their abortion care. Alli brings to DCAF twenty years’ experience in public health and nonprofit management. Prior to joining DCAF, Alli served as founding Executive Director of Culture of Respect, a leading national initiative to end campus sexual violence. |
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 8:00 PM | PREVIEW
FEATURED RESPONDER: Michelle Liu
Michelle Liu is a women’s human rights lawyer and a professor of law at Georgetown University. She is originally from China but grew up in Connecticut and considers herself a New Yorker at heart. Through her role as the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown Law, Michelle hopes to inspire students take up the challenge of fighting sex discrimination in laws and policies and in our everyday lives. |
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2:00 PM | PREVIEW
FEATURED RESPONDER: Betsy Griffith
Betsy Griffith is an academic, activist, and author. Her Elizabeth Cady Stanton biography, “In Her Own Right,” praised by both Oprah and the Wall Street Journal, was the basis of a Ken Burns’ documentary. The New York Times has called her most recent work, “Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality,” a “tour de force.” |
| MONDAY, MARCH 13, 7:30 PM | Opening Night |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 12:00 PM | PREVIEW
FEATURED RESPONDER: Connie Morella
Morella served as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 2003-2007. From 1987 until 2003 she represented Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives, known as a leading advocate for women, children, families as well as a promoter of economic growth through science and technology. Prior to the US Congress, she was elected to the Maryland General Assembly, serving 8 years. |
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 8:00 PM
FEATURED RESPONDER: Natalie Randolph
Natalie Randolph is currently the Director of Equity, Justice & Community at the Sidwell Friends school. Prior to her role at Sidwell Friends, Natalie served as the Senior Women’s Administrator and Title IX Coordinator for the DC State Athletic Association where she oversaw Title IX compliance for the District’s public and public charter school athletics programs. Before entering into the DEI space, Natalie was science educator with DC Public Schools where she also served as one of the first female head football coaches in the country at Calvin Coolidge High School. |
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2:00 PM
FEATURED RESPONDER: Dr. Melanie A. Adams
Melanie A. Adams, PhD, currently serves as the Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth Director of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. Before joining the Smithsonian, Dr. Adams served as the Deputy Director for Learning Initiatives at the Minnesota Historical Society overseeing the state’s 26 historic sites. Prior to Minnesota, she spent twelve years at the Missouri Historical Society as the Managing Director for Community Education and Events. Dr. Adams is an active member of the museum community. She currently serves on the board of Museum Hue and served on the board of the American Association for State and Local History and the Association of Midwest Museums. |
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 8:00 PM
FEATURED RESPONDER: Yolanda Savage-Narva
Yolanda Savage-Narva (she/her) is the Assistant Vice President of Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) for the Union for Reform Judaism. For more than 20 years, Yolanda collaborated with Tribal governments to strengthen public health systems, promoted pedestrian safety and advocacy and coining the phrase, “Walking is a civil right,” and advancing health equity in states and territories. Most recently, Yolanda was the executive director with Operation Understanding DC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting understanding, cooperation, and respect while fighting to eradicate racism, antisemitism, and all forms of discrimination. Yolanda is an alumna of the Union for Reform Judaism’s JewV’Nation Fellowship and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., as well as an immediate past member of the Religious Action Center’s Commission on Social Action |
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2:00 PM
FEATURED RESPONDER: Marjuan Canaday
Marjuan Canady is a Mom, Broadway Producer and award-winning Caribbean-American writer, director, performer, entrepreneur, educator, and literacy advocate. A native Washingtonian, her work spans theater, film, television, children’s media and literature. She recently served as a Co-Producer on the 2022 Broadway production, Death of a Salesman. She was the 2021-2022 inaugural Front Row Productions Fellow / Adjunct Research Scholar at Columbia University Theatre Management and Producing Program. She is the Founder of her production company Sepia Works and non-profit, Canady Foundation for the Arts. Canady is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Fordham University and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. |
| SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2023 7:30 PM | Open Captioning |
