Leah Libresco Sargeant is a senior policy analyst at the Niskanen Center (DC) and the 2023-24 Wollstonecraft Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute. She also runs the popular substack community, Other Feminisms. Leah's forthcoming book, The Dignity of Dependence, will be published by Notre Dame University Press. 

Monica Klem is the co-author of the new book, Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women's Empowerment in Reconstruction America (Encounter Books, 2023). She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Pepperdine University and has been published in Philanthropy magazine and the Almanac of American Philanthropy. Her co-author Madeleine McDowell holds a PhD from Notre Dame in 19th century history.

Panel will be preceded by 12:30 pm Scholars Workshop with Leah Libresco Sargeant (RSVP and reading required).