100 Years of Challenge and Change . Featuring Harvard law professor and author Lani Guinier, as well as eight additional speakers, this event will provide women a forum for discussion of practical skills and strategies.
All women are welcome.
A Centennial Tea kicks off the celebration on Thursday, Sept. 14. William Mitchell women graduates, students and faculty will renew old friendships and make new ones. A symposium, on Saturday, Nov. 4, presents vital skills for women in the law, featuring keynote speaker Guinier. She came to public attention in 1993 when President Clinton nominated her to be the first black woman to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and then withdrew her name without a confirmation hearing. Also at the symposium, Ellie Wymard, author of Conversations with Uncommon Wome n , leads a plenary session and addresses three main ways women can navigate to success.