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Doing history in public. Director @JHSHartford, President @CTLHO. Women's history, immigration, early childhood. She/her. Books: https://xitter.cf/t.co/4b3dJFmWpE

Connecticut
Joined May 2011
#libraryjobs Work PT with great people as a Project Assistant, @ctlho CT Collections project: clho.org/work-with-us/
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Father’s Day is coming this Sunday. Don’t get the dad in your life another pair of socks. Get that dad a kick in the pants, so he can get off the couch and get in the fight for reproductive rights! Join in: OperationSaveAbortion.com
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Best response among quite a few I've seen today!
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Amazing thread of photos
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Check out this film on Tamar Manesseh, Black rabbinical student and neighborhood organizer in Chicago: theyaintreadyforme.com/ Currently available to stream in CT via the Hartford Jewish Film Festival: watch.eventive.org/hjff2022/…
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Explained the concept of path dependency for this video on child care policy, now in retro video game format: Why the US doesn’t have universal child care (anymore) youtu.be/AThIwfYfNrM via @YouTube
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Interesting exploration of the model for this iconic ad
Last month, I was reading about this iconic Levy’s rye bread ad. The identity of the model was a mystery. Some even said he was not Native American. So I decided to figure it out and wrote his story in the @jdforward jd.fo/WpdU
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Loved reading this book, profoundly humanizing
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So (bc we alternated last names) 2/3 of my kids are in a special 5% group!
I wrote an essay for TIME about the decision to give my kids my last name, and about some of the many ways society devalues women. time.com/6143476/baby-with-m…
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I talked to TIME magazine about the time when we almost had a national child care program...(vetoed 50 years ago this week)
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Dr. Elizabeth Rose retweeted
I became hooked on Wirecutter a few years ago—the reviews are great! But I won’t be consulting it this holiday season unless the company starts treating its employees fairly. – at West Hartford, CT
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Also need affordable housing
“This is the first time they can sit and they can breathe and we are asking for landlords, large landlords, individual landlords to please contact our agencies, please open more doors to our clients,” - CIRI President and CEO, Susan Schnitzer greenwichtime.com/news/artic…
A reminder: Every election counts. Up ballot, down ballot, and everyplace in between. So use your crucial voting rights and vote!
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The sweetest thing
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Living in a high door density neighborhood
Have you heard of the “trick-or-treat test?” It’s simple really — does the design of your neighbourhood make trick-or-treating hard at #Halloween? Can you even find the front doors? What does that reveal about good design? Read my @CityLab article on it! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Related, there is some hard sociological evidence on the very particularly social niche of the Pigs in the busy world of Richard Scarry home.uchicago.edu/~jlmartin/…
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Saw some cool museums in Copenhagen but was especially struck by the display in the courtyard of the Workers Museum, as well as their “8 Hours” banner
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