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Jane Bigelow, Chair.<\/span><\/b>\u202fis one of the founding members of the LWHP, starting with an idea in 1999.\u00a0She was the first woman Mayor of London and has been active in founding various community organizations. Her volunteer work has always been with women’s organizations concerned with violence against women \u2013 Women\u2019s Community House, Hamilton Sexual Assault Centre, London Sexual Assault Centre and My Sisters\u2019 Place. Her biographical material is at the UWO Archives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jean Hewitt, Ph.D., Secretary;\u202fwas the Western Ontario Status of Women Convener for the Federation of Women Teachers from 1971-76. As such, she worked to change many aspects of school leadership and the education of female students.\u202f In 1975, Jean brought together all the London area women\u2019s groups to create, and chaired for 30 years, an International Women\u2019s Year Steering Committee for the City.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheila Davenport: B.S.W., Treasurer.\u202fRetired \u2013 Former Manager, London Urban Resource Center, Former Councillor, City of London.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary McKim, M.D.,\u202f<\/span><\/b>has been involved from the beginning.\u202f Background in psychiatric practice.\u202f Interest in treating women suffering the consequences of childhood and\/or ongoing abuse.\u202f Founding member of CARAL, National Board member. Later President of London Chapter of CARAL. Founding board Girl\u2019s Group Home of London (now WAYS) and LSWAG, now Abused Women\u2019s Centre.\u202f Her files are with the UWO Archives.<\/span>\u00a0
Catherine Charlton, M.A.,\u202fis a former member of the Ontario Status of Women Council and the private Ontario Committee on the Status of Women. She was active in lobbying for family law reform, against bias in advertising, freedom of choice on abortion\u202fand\u202fother feminist issues.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dory Crerar, M.A.,\u202f<\/span><\/b>is one of the founding members of the LWHP.\u202f An early volunteer with the Women\u2019s Workshop, she has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and worked for the Dept. of Veteran\u2019s Affairs and the London Mental Health Clinic.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nancy Johnson, producer.,\u202f<\/span><\/b>Former executive producer for Lockwood Films, the production company that gave London 3 important cultural films, Doctor Woman: The Life and Times of Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw, Greg\u00a0Curnoe\u00a0and James Reaney: Listening to the Wind. In 1998, Nancy was named Woman of Distinction in the Arts and Culture category.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Barb Hyatt<\/span><\/b>\u202fis one of the founding members of the LWHP.\u202f She is a graduate of UWO and gold medalist in Psychology, 1956.\u202f She was an early supporter of the Battered Women\u2019s Advocacy Clinic.\u202f Barb was an artist whose work showed in London and Toronto.\u202f She was also a life-long athlete and interim coach of UWO Women\u2019s Tennis Team in 1982-83.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Usha Tripathi, MA, CLIP;\u202f<\/span><\/b>is a Member of the Chartered\u202fInstitute of Library and Information Professionals, UK. Now, a retired Assistant Keeper\/Curator of the British Library, London, UK. She is an active member of the Council for London Seniors-participated publication of the Multilingual Services for Seniors directory; a Cultural Interpreter for the Across Languages, London,\u00a0Ont;\u202f Program Director for the Association of Women of India in Canada, London, Ont.; now retired Assistant Keeper\/Curator of the British Library, London, UK.\u202f She has a master’s degree from Delhi University, India.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Estela Quintero-Weldon<\/strong>\u202f\u2013 originally from Colombia, in Canada for 28 years, a UWO Sociology graduate.\u202f Community Services Manager with United Way of London & Middlesex for the last 14 years where she established several programs including \u201cYoung Leaders of Tomorrow\u201d, \u201cYouth in Action\u201d and \u201cCaring for Others\u201d.\u202f As a volunteer she has been a member for 6 years, President for 2 years of the\u202f\u201cMulticultural Committee to End Woman Abuse\u201d, and 8 years on the London Diversity & Race Relations Advisory Committee (LDRRAC).\u202f\u202f Awards: \u201cUnity Award on Race Relations\u201d 2004; \u201cWomen Building Communities Award.\u201d \u2013 2008.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Consulting Historian<\/span><\/b>\u00a0
Rebecca Coulter, Ph.D.\u202f<\/span><\/b>is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and the Department of Women\u2019s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario.\u202f She was the Principal Investigator on a team of researchers that completed a large oral history project on women teachers in Ontario, the results of which were published in several journals and in the book, History is Hers:\u202f Women Educators in Twentieth Century Ontario.\u202f Dr. Coulter has received several teaching awards and was recently recognized with the Achievement Award of the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education\u202ffor her contributions to the education of girls and women.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Bigelow, Chair.\u202fis one of the founding members of the LWHP, starting with an idea in 1999.\u00a0She was the first woman Mayor of London and has been active in founding various community organizations. Her volunteer work has always been with women’s organizations concerned with violence against women \u2013 Women\u2019s Community House, Hamilton Sexual Assault Centre, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/voicesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/voicesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/voicesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/voicesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/voicesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/voicesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/voicesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}