Women of Distinction
Stacey Abrams is an American politician, a voting rights activist and author. She served in the Georgia House of Representatives for ten years and was the minority leader for six years (Democratic Party). Her work as a voting rights activist was instrumental in getting Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff elected as the new U.S. Senators for the state of Georgia in the 2020 elections. She is a graduate of Spelman College, and Yale Law School.
Jennifer Klein was recently appointed by The President as the Executive Director and co-chair of the Gender Policy Council. The Council is to ensure that the Biden administration advances gender equity, equal rights and opportunity for women and girls. Previously she served as Chief Strategy and Policy Officer at TIMES UP . She is a board member of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). She is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University School of Law (In her third year she was a visiting student
at Yale Law School).
Julissa Reynoso is the Chief of Staff to the First lady. She has served as ambassador of the U.S. to Uruguay and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America, Caribbean, and Cuban Affairs. The President has appointed her as co-chair of the Gender Policy Council along with Jennifer Klein. Formerly, she was a litigation and international arbitration partner with the international law firm of Winston and Strawn, LLP. She is a graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, Emmanuel College, and Columbia University School of Law.
Kizzmekia Corbett is a scientist from North Carolina who was instrumental in the Moderna vaccine research. Her fields of research are immunology and microbiology at the National Institute of Allergy and Inflection Diseases. Dr. Fauci states that vaccine was actually developed by his institute’s research center by a team of scientists lead by Dr. Barney Graham and his close colleague, Dr. Kizzimekia Corbett. Dr. Corbett is lead scientist for cononavirus vaccine research at National Institute of Health, and part of a team that worked with biotechnology company Moderna to develop one of the first two vaccines. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (M.S., Ph.D.) in microbiology and immunology.
Reflections
In March we will share information about women from many cultures in the United States who are making enormous contributions to the enrichment of lives in the United States and abroad. We will share some information that you may independently study to know and be inspired by their lives and their works.
Stacey Abrams:
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change. New York: Macmillan, 2018.
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Light for a Fair America. New York: Macmillan, 2020.
While Justice Sleeps. New York: Doubleday, 2021. (A suspense thriller)
Happy International Women’s Day! As we celebrate the advancement of gender equality, let us remember the women who helped make our empowerment possible. Their legacies serve as a guide for the next generation of organizers fighting for equal justice. Stacey Abrams
Kizzmekia S. Corbett:
Corbett, Kizzmekia S. et al. (2020) “SARS-Cov-2mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness.
Silver, Johnna. “Dr. Fauci Spotlights Young Black Woman Who Helped Develop COVIC-19 Vaccine, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett. Now This News. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
“Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine.”
ABC News. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
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