Sissy at 100
Please join the Rapoport Center and the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice in celebrating what would have been Sissy Farenthold’s 100th birthday.
The two-day celebration will honor Farenthold’s remarkable legacy of leadership and advocacy for reproductive justice, peace, and environmental justice. The program will feature a film screening, conversations with leading voices in these areas, and a keynote address by Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward.
The celebration will take place at the University of Texas School of Law, in CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom).
Thursday, October 1
5:30 p.m. – Film Screening & Talkback
Screening of Films about Sissy Farenthold (directed by Joe Bailey, Jr. and produced by the Rapoport Center) and Talkback
Participants
- Alice Bailey (’08)
- Cooper Christiancy
- Karen Engle
- George E. Farenthold II
- Athena Hawkins
- Bennett Torres
7:00 p.m. – Birthday Cake Cutting
Friday, October 2
9:00 a.m. — Pastries & Coffee
9:30 a.m. — Keynote Address
Skye Perryman
President & CEO, Democracy Forward
Introduced by Neville Hoad
11:00 a.m. — Dialogue on Peace & Disarmament
Genevieve Vaughan
Peace and Justice Activist and Writer; Founder, Foundation for a Compassionate Society; Maternal Gift Economy Movement
Maylene Hughes
Nuclear Threats Program Senior Coordinator, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles
Moderated by Roxanne Elder
Former Staff, American Friends Service Committee, Nuclear Freeze Campaign, and the Office of Governor Ann Richards
1:30 p.m. — Dialogue on Reproductive Justice
Representative Maria Luisa “Lulu” Flores (’80)
Member, Texas House of Representatives; Partner, Hendler Flores Law
Zoraima Pelaez (’22)
Staff Attorney, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project
Moderated by Karen Engle
Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Co-director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas
3:00 p.m. — Dialogue on Environmental Justice
Terry O’Rourke (’71)
Environmental Lawyer; Legal Adviser to Sissy Farenthold
Bekah Hinojosa
Co-founder, South Texas Environmental Justice Network
Moderated by Professor Gerald Torres
Dolores Huerta and Wilma Mankiller Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of the Environment
4:30–5:00 p.m. — Closing
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