Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) founder and executive director, Joanne N. Smith, was a featured panelist at the Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later conference at Hunter College in New York City. The panel was moderated by Pat Mitchell, President & CEO of The Paley Center for Media, and Joanne spoke alongside several other activists and scholars, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Rha Goddess, and Ai-Jen Poo. Smith talked about the impact Anita Hill’s testimony had on her as a young, first generation Haitian-American woman and explained how Hill’s legacy is carried on in the work of GGE’s youth organizers in the public schools today. Video footage of the entire discussion is available from C-SPAN, and a number of highlights from the panel can be found at GGE’s Twitter page.
