Coffee with Cool Women
The SIUE Women’s Studies Program is proud to sponsor…
Conversations with Women of Imagination and Accomplishment
This program originated in a series of conversations with successful women about their career paths. As one might expect, many cited long-term relationships with mentors in their field as crucial to their choices, but, more surprisingly, they also spoke about much briefer encounters with women who made them think, “Wow. I want to do that. I can do that.”
Coffee With Cool Women is a series of one-hour conversations in which “cool women”—women who have chosen interesting, challenging, and sometimes unconventional careers—meet with a small group of SIUE undergraduate and graduate students to talk about the pleasures, frustrations, and surprises of their professional lives thus far. The setting is casual, the conversation is candid, and the coffee is fresh.
Most CWCW sessions are held in the Women’s Studies Office (Peck 3407) and seating is limited. However, feel free to stop by the day and time of the event to see if space is still available.
SPRING 2025 Events Coming SOON!
Our cool woman Hall of Fame:
- Karin Caito, US Drug Enforcement Agency
- The Hon. Ann Callis, judge, 3rd judicial circuit
- Nancy Cambria, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter
- Dail Chambers, Artist/Activist, and Co-Founder of YeYo Arts Collective and the Gya Galllery
- Trish Cheatham, CEO of Think Tank
- Joann Condellone, midwife, activist
- Dr. Elizabeth Ferries-Rowe, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana University
- Bev George, enterpeneur
- Prof. Jennifer Horney, Deputy Director, UNC Center for Public Health Preparedness
- Jennifer Lee, filmmaker (here’s a link to information about her film Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation)
- Elizabeth Massie, writer, producer, and director (here’s a link to information about her documentary Compañeras)
- Tanya Patton, Principal N.O. Nelson School
- Caroline Pender, owner, 222 Bakery
- Lt. Carole Presson, Madison County Sheriff’s Office
- Andi Smith, entrepreneur/owner, Beyond Timbuktu
- Megan Smith, women’s advocate, St. Martha’s Hall
- Monica Stump, Human Trafficking Specialist, U.S. Prosecutor’s Office
- Veronique LaCapra, biologist and science reporter for 90.6 KWMU St. Louis Public Radio (here’s a link to the KWMU Health, Science, Environment webpage)
- Elise Waldman, Genome Analyst
