Ahead of her receipt of the Freedom Summer of ‘64 Award from Miami University, Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins will present “The Power of Our Story”, a lecture in honor of Women’s History Month on Thursday, March 12 at noon in King 320.
A 1974 graduate of Western College for Women, Jefferson-Jenkins served as the national president of the League of Women Voters of the United States — the first African American to hold the role — and chair of the League of Women Voters Education Fund from 1998 to 2002.