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Michelle Stonis
Specializing in United States history and United States women's history, Michelle Stonis is a Full-Time Tenure-Track Instructor of History at Glendale Community College in the Greater Los Angeles region. She is the founding Co-Director of GCC's Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium. You can find her work at www.michellestonis.com and connect on Instagram at professor.stonis.

Dr. Melissa Blair
Dr. Blair teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in U.S. women’s history, as well as undergraduate courses on twentieth century grassroots politics and the senior thesis course for history majors. She supervises graduate students working on U.S women’s history in any time period, and serves on graduate committees for a variety of 20th century U.S. and Southern history topics. Graduate students working with Dr. Blair have, in the past two years, had their work supported by the Five Colleges Consortium, the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, and the Adams Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis at the Virginia Military Institute. Prior to joining the Auburn faculty in 2015, she taught for six years at Warren Wilson College, a small liberal arts college in North Carolina.

Cony Marquez
A Ph. D. Candidate in Latin American History from the University of Arizona. She specializes in Gender Studies, Cultural History, Musicology, and Art History. Her dissertation"Voices of Women in Mexican Army", is an original study based on the oral history of Mexican Army Wives, their traditional roles, and how they've challenged them. She has almost more than a decade of teaching history courses in Mexican, American, and Chinese Universities. Her approach is multidisciplinary and focuses on the history of minorities often ignored in mainstream history dominated by male academics with political agendas. She is a non-aggressive but convinced feminist advocating for equality in academia and life.

Dr. Camilla Townsend
Camilla Townsend is an American historian and Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She specializes in the early history of Native Americans in the United States, as well as in the history of Latin America. In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Senator Hassan was the second female governor of New Hampshire and the third woman to represent New Hampshire in Washington. When she became governor, the state made history by electing the first all-female delegation to Washington and top executive being female. Hassan joined us to discuss what it was like being a woman making history.

Erika Robuck
Erika Robuck is the author of a new book on Virginia Hall, an American spy in World War II. Virginia Hall wasn't like the other young society women back home in Baltimore--she never wanted the debutante ball or silk gloves. Instead, she traded a safe life for adventure in Europe, and when her beloved second home is thrust into the dark days of war, she leaps in headfirst.

You can learn more about her and her book on her website.

 Dr. Suzan Al Abidi
Dr. Al Abidi is an educator who trained, through education and field experiences, to facilitate the teaching and learning of pre-service and in-service teachers. Her background is in Nutrition and Food Technology. She is interested in examining the context and circumstances of health and wellness among people from different cultures. Her dissertation was on the wellness of Muslim immigrant children. She lives in the United Arab Emirates with her family.

Tina Cassidy
Tina Cassidy writes about women and culture. A former journalist who spent most of her career at the Boston Globe covering business, fashion and politics, she is the Chief Marketing Officer of GBH. Cassidy serves on the board of The Conversation US. She lives in the Boston area with her husband, the author Anthony Flint, their three sons, and a Norfolk Terrier named Dusty.

​You can find her writing and more about her on her website.

Andrew Och
Andrew Och is an Award Winning television producer who has traveled the world in search of provocative stories and adventures. In 2012, He began an historical journey as he traversed America for over a year documenting the lives of every First Lady of the United States for the C-SPAN series *First Ladies: Influence And Image.* The series aired in 2013 to great acclaim and helped reveal the untold stories behind the ladies of the White House.

You can find his video series about the first ladies and more about him on his website.

Mary Bezbatchenko 
Mary Bezbatchenko has her Masters in History and is a high school teacher based in Ohio. She wrote her masters thesis on the ERA movement in Virginia.

Dr. Danielle McGuire
Danielle McGuire is a writer and historian who is interested in the African American freedom struggle. She teaches history at Wayne State University in Detroit. She lives with her husband and two children.

You can learn more about McGuire and her book on her website.

Elise Hooper, Amber Ferreira, and Rachel Jastrebsky
A native New Englander, Elise spent several years writing for television and online news outlets before getting a MA and teaching high-school literature and history. She now lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters. Fast Girls is a novel that explores the gripping, real-life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women’s Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany.

You can order her book and learn more about her on her website.