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Lilly Travieso ’24, Founder of Women’s Empowerment Organization, Visits White House
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Cornell softball player Lilly Travieso ’24 attends Jill Biden’s “Girls Leading Change Event” in honor of International Day of the Girl.
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Cornell softball player Lilly Travieso ’24 attends Jill Biden’s “Girls Leading Change Event” in honor of International Day of the Girl.
“Social media has now allowed me to advocate for what I’m passionate about at the highest level of our government,” said J.C. Dombrowski. “I am so thankful that social media has opened doors up for me—doors I didn’t even know existed in the first place.”
Cornell law professor Saule Omarova has been nominated by the Biden administration to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who spends her days covering the tumultuous Trump administration, began her Statler Hall speech on Monday with something she said is rare under this regime: an apology.
The New York Times Chief White House Correspondent and CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman will speak at Cornell on the “Current Political Landscape” on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
Ryan said she poses questions to Trump to ensure the government transparency she believes is crucial to fulfill the people’s right to information.
White House correspondent April Ryan will share her experience as a reporter “under fire” during the Donald Trump administration with the Cornell community on Thursday.
The funniest people I know are women, which might seem strange given how overwhelmingly male the profession of comedy seems to be. The top ten highest paid comedians in 2017 were nine men and one woman — Amy Schumer, who also happens to be exceedingly white and exceedingly problematic. Performers at the White House Correspondents Dinners, keeping with this trend, have been historically male as well. Not to say that funny women haven’t graced the stage; recently we had Wanda Sykes, Cecily Strong and, this year, Michelle Wolf. So, we are getting somewhere in terms of equality.
“Trump soon discovered that his bellicose rhetoric has real-world consequences,” Jordan Fabian ’09 said.
The history department will host the alumnus in hopes that his career path to the White House will inform humanities majors about opportunities available to them following graduation.