#  Speaker Biographies 

 



**Clarissa Atkinson**  
1974 Attended ordination of "Philadelphia 11"  
1974 Research Associate in Women's Studies, Harvard Divinity School  
1991 *The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages*

**Charlotte Bunch**  
1966 President, University Christian Movement   
1974 Co-founder, *Quest: A Feminist Quarterly*   
1989 Founder, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University

**Carol P. Christ**  
1971 Founder, Women's Caucus - Religious Studies in the American Academy of Religion   
1979 Co-editor, *Womanspirit Rising*   
1998 *Rebirth of the Goddess*

**Mary Daly**   
1971 "Anti-Sermon", Harvard Memorial Church   
1973 *Beyond God the Father*   
1998 *Quintessence . . . Realizing the Archaic Future*

**Nadine Foley**  
1975 Coordinator, Women in Future Priesthood Now - A Call to Action  
1986 Prioress, Adrian Dominican Congregation  
1989 President, Leadership Conference on Women Religious

**Blu Greenberg**  
1973 Spoke at first National Jewish Women's Conference  
1981 *On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition*  
1997 Co-founder and first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance

**Riffat Hassan**  
1976 Professor of Religion, University of Louisville   
1995 *Women’s Rights for Islam*   
1999 Founder, International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan

**Roberta Hestenes**  
1975 Taught first course on women in ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary  
1985 First woman head of an international evangelical NGO (World Vision)  
1987 First woman president in the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities (Eastern University)

**Azizah al-Hibri**  
1983 *Women and Islam*  
1986 Founding Editor, *Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy*  
1993 Founder, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights

**Mary Hunt**  
1978 Lectured at Women's Ordination Conference  
1983 Co-founder and Co-director, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual  
1991 *Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship*

**Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz**  
1967 Learned how to read the Bible from the poor in Lima, Peru  
1975 Realized sexism is oppression at the Women's Ordination Conference  
1988 *Hispanic Women: Prophetic Voice in the Church*

**Joan Martin**  
1977 First Director, Justice for Women Program, National Council of Churches   
1994 Professor of Christian Ethics, Episcopal Divinity School   
2000 *More Than Chains and Toil: A Christian Work Ethic of Enslaved Women*

**Virginia Mollenkott**   
1974 Founding Member, Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus  
1977 *Women, Men, and the Bible*  
2001 *Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach*

**Vicki Noble**   
1970 Awakened to feminism by reading Kate Millet's *Sexual Politics*  
1976 Shamanic healing crisis leads to Motherpeace Tarot  
1998 Develops Buddhist Dakini practice for women

**Judith Plaskow**   
1969 Became a feminist while studying for her Ph.D. at Yale   
1981 Co-founder, B’not Esh, Jewish feminist spirituality collective  
1990 *Standing Again at Sinai*

**Letty Cottin Pogrebin**   
1955 Excluded from minyan for mother’s kaddish   
1971 Co-founder, *Ms.* magazine   
1991 *Deborah, Golda and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America*

**Jeanne Audrey Powers**   
1958 Ordained into the Methodist Church  
1971 Conversion to Feminism  
1993 Re-Imagining the Church

**Donna Quinn**  
1974 Founded Chicago Catholic Women  
1984 Co-founded Women-Church Convergence   
1994 Lead National Coalition of American Nuns; marched in protest at Vatican

**Rosemary Radford Ruether**   
1965 Joined faculty, Howard University School of Religion   
1972 Taught first course on feminist theology at Harvard Divinity School   
1975 *New Woman, New Earth*

**Claire Randall**  
1972 Joined the Grail  
1973 First woman General Secretary, National Council of Churches  
1988 President, Church Women United

**Letty Russell**   
1958 Ordained as a minister in the United Presbyterian Church, USA   
1974 Joined the faculty of Yale University to teach feminist and liberation theologies   
1974 *Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective: A Theology*

**Betty Bone Schiess**   
1974 Ordained Episcopal Priest, one of the "Philadelphia 11"  
1975 Chair, Women and Religion Task Force of the National Organization of Women  
1985 New York State Task Force on Life and the Law

**Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza**   
1964 *Ministries of Women in the Church* (in German)   
1983 *In Memory of Her* (translated into 12 languages)   
1987 First woman president, Society of Biblical Literature

**Margaret Toscano**   
1976 Feminist awakening while studying at Brigham Young University  
1984 "Missing Rib" speech asserts women's right to Mormon priesthood  
2000 Excommunicated from LDS Church for feminist activism

**Delores S. Williams**  
1980 Director, Anna Howard Shaw Center   
1993 *Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-talk*  
1993 Speaker, Re-Imagining Conference

**Lois Wilson**   
1965 Ordained, United Church of Canada   
1976 First woman President, Canadian Council of Churches  
1983  President, World Council of Churches

**Addie Wyatt**   
1955 Co-founder and co-pastor, Vernon Park Church of God   
1975 Attended International Women's Year Conference, Houston  
1976  First woman International Vice President, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America