Girls from six Cleveland-area high schools are joining together at Hathaway Brown School’s Worldwide Communications Center to document the stories of some of the city’s most interesting women. On March 10, 2015, from 4:30-7:30 p.m., in a workshop conducted by Amy Richards from MAKERS.com— a digital and video storytelling platform that aims to be the largest and most dynamic collection of women’s stories— 10 prominent Cleveland women will speak with students about the experiences and qualities that made them who they are.

Author and activist Yvonne Pointer, graphic artist Gwen Garth, project coordinator for the City of Cleveland, and community activist Barbara Anderson, SPR Therapeutics president and founder Maria Bennett, eco-friendly dry cleaning company owner Vicky Trotter, OB/GYN Dr. Karen Jaffe, Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra artistic director Jeannette Sorrell, Center for Families and Children external affairs director Elizabeth Hijar, Social Advocates for Youth counselor Laurel Greene, and business owner and teacher of entrepreneurship Sharie Renee each will participate in student interviews at HB. The information gathered in these discussions will be used to create short videos with the MAKERS.com “MAKERS Stories” app.

Making HerStory is presented in partnership with the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at Case Western Reserve University, MAKERS.com, Inner Visions, and the Center for Leadership & Well-Being at Hathaway Brown School. Students from Hathaway Brown, Saint Martin de Porres High School, the Cleveland School of the Arts, Laurel School, the North Star Collaborative, Shaker Heights High School, and the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine’s John Hay campus were all invited to participate. The program will be facilitated by Amy Richards, founder of the Third Wave Foundation, a national feminist, activist foundation. She also is a consulting producer on the HBO documentary Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words, and an adviser to Makers, a PBS documentary on the women's movement in America.

Koyen Shah, director of HB’s Center for Leadership & Well-Being, is committed to the ideal of collaboration this initiative represents. “Making HerStory brings Cleveland girls and women from different neighborhoods and generations together for a conversation about maker moments,” says Shah. “There’s power in sharing it all with one another.”

For additional details about the March 10 Making HerStory event at Hathaway Brown, visit https://sites.google.com/a/hb.edu/making-herstory/home. While this student-centered event is not open to the public, Amy Richards will present an HBPA talk on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 8-9 a.m. in the Anne Cutter Coburn Reception Room. All members of the HB community are invited to hear Ms. Richards speak.

If you have questions about the event or Ms. Richards visit, please contact Koyen Shah at kshah@hb.edu or 216.320.8796 ext. 7268