Melissa Isaacson, Sportswriter and Lecturer, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism
Title IX: Did Legislation Level the Playing Field?
Melissa Isaacson is an award-winning sportswriter, author, and public speaker. In more than thirty years on the job, she has covered every major US sports championship as well as the Olympics. She has written for numerous publications, including long tenures at such institutions as ESPN and the Chicago Tribune. She is currently on the faculty of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and lives in the Chicago area.
Melissa has written State, the story of her experiences on the Illinois state champion 1979 Niles West High School girls basketball team, will speak to us about transformational power of girl’s athletics and the controversial legislation that allowed it all to happen.
Co-hosted by League of Women Voters of Arlington Heights/Mt. Prospect/Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Evanston, Glenview/Glencoe, Lake Forest/Lake Bluff, Palatine Area, Park Ridge, Wilmette, and Winnetka/Northfield/Kenilworth
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Upcoming Events
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People (Event 1 of 2)
David Yeager, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute
Evanston Township High School Auditorium
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Note: Event start time is Central Time (CT).
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People (Event 2 of 2)
David Yeager, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute
Matthew Montgomery, Ph.D.
Superintendent of Lake Forest School Districts 67 and 115 in Illinois
Lake Forest High School, Raymond Moore Auditorium
Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math
Shalinee Sharma
Math expert and CEO and co-founder of Zearn
Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO of Character Lab, and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
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