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Cecile Richards in Conversation with Elaine Petrocelli

Presented by Dominican University - Institute for Leadership Studies and Book Passage at Angelico Hall - Dominican Univ of CA, San Rafael CA

Apr 12 2018
Cecile Richards in Conversation with Elaine Petrocelli

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, in conversation about her newest novel, Make Trouble

From Cecile Richards—president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and a “heroine of the resistance” (Vogue)—comes Make Trouble, a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women’s rights and social justice.

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal’s office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. Richards had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. In the Richards household, the “dinner table was never for eating—it was for sorting precinct lists.”

Cecile Richards is a nationally respected leader in the field of women’s health, reproductive rights, and social change. After years in the labor movement, she moved back home to Texas to help elect the state’s first Democratic woman governor: Her mother, Ann Richards.

She went on to start her own grassroots organizations, and later served as Deputy Chief of Staff to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. In 2011 and 2012, she was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Richards is currently the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and is a frequent speaker and commentator on issues related to women’s rights and activism.

ADMISSION INFO

Tickets: $40 (includes book)

Phone: 415.458.3202

Email: ils@dominican.edu

Website: https://www.bookpassage.com/maketrouble

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7:00 - 8:00 pm

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Angelico Hall - Dominican Univ of CA

20 Olive Ave., Dominican University Of California, San Rafael, CA 94901

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