President’s Women of Yale Lecture Series Anita Hill ‘80 J.D.

Event time: 
Monday, October 30, 2017 - 3:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Edward P. Evans Hall, Zhang Auditorium See map
165 Whitney Avenue
Event description: 

On Monday, October 30, 2017, Anita Hill ’80 J.D. will join President Peter Salovey in a conversation open to members of the Yale community. The discussion is the third event in the President’s Women of Yale Lecture Series. In anticipation of 2019, which will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Yale undergraduate coeducation and more than 150 years of women’s academic affiliation in Yale’s graduate and professional schools, the series celebrates outstanding Yale alumnae. To RSVP, click here.

Anita Hill is the University Professor of Law, Public Policy and Women’s Studies in the Heller Graduate School of Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She is also of counsel to the law firm of Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll, where she advises on class action workplace discrimination cases.

Following her graduation from Yale Law School in 1980, Hill began her career in private practice in Washington, D.C., before moving to the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In 1989, she became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. At Brandeis, Hill teaches courses on gender, race, social policy, and legal history. Her latest work, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Finding Home (Beacon Press, 2011), analyzes the 2008 housing market collapse and its impact on gender and racial equality.

Admission: 
Free but register in advance