April 7, 2014 A selections of photos from our March gallery exhibit are available to view online at the Puffin Cultural Forum website here. “Photographs taken by Bev Grant, one of the original activists who participated in the September 6, 1968 Miss America Protests, a watershed moment that pushed the Women’s Liberation Movement into America’s national consciousness...
January 3, 2017 The Puffin Cultural Forum is a small and passionate art and performance space located in Teaneck, NJ just outside of New York City that seeks to promote the meeting of the Arts and Activism. To that end, the Puffin Cultural Forum hosts art exhibitions, and performances of music, theater, poetry, film, lectures, community workshops in an effort to...
This Women’s History Month, Scalawag presents a roundup of women who came before the historical figures you may have heard of: architects of civil rights law, Southern financiers, abolitionist visionaries, and folk music pioneers. This year, the National Women’s History Month theme is “celebrating women who tell our stories.” But who gets to...
“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen.There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.”– Malala Yousafzai Celebrating Women. Always. This March, in honor of Women’s History Month, we at First Nations acknowledge the amazing women who have shaped our world. The women in my own life have made me the strong, resilient...
September 15, 2020 Planning a visit to New York City’s Central Park? Make sure to take in the park’s newest monument depicting Women’s Rights Pioneers Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. The statue was recently unveiled on the 100th anniversary of the ratification on the 19th amendment which granted women throughout the US the right to...
Just before tipoff at the live national broadcast of the NCAA Women’s Final Four Championship Game on April 7, 31 women scientists, engineers, and leaders from NASA stood at center court inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland to hold a large American flag during the opening ceremony. The crowd cheered as astronaut Jessica Watkins and...
In celebration of Women’s History Month 2024, I am excited to reflect on my NAF journey and how it has prepared me for my current career today, as Senior Manager, US Commercial Transformation at Johnson & Johnson MedTech, and share more about my vision and goals, as the new NAF Alumni Leadership Council (ALC) Chair. My journey began in high school, with the NAF...
As soon as women get their heads up from the waters of childcare duties, they’re often hit by another wave: eldercare. Dealing with dueling unpaid familial responsibilities, many women are forced to take more career breaks, miss work, move to part-time, or even leave the workforce altogether. That care crunch has damaging effects beyond women’s careers—in fact, it...