{"id":463162,"date":"2020-12-02T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=463162"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:20:00","slug":"new-exhibit-highlights-women-who-changed-the-world-463162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/new-exhibit-highlights-women-who-changed-the-world-463162\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit highlights women who changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester Museum & Science Center exhibit includes ten women with connections to the URochester.<\/h2>\n

Ten women with connections to the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ are among the 200 women visionaries, trailblazers, inventors, activists, and entrepreneurs highlighted in a Rochester Museum & Science Center exhibit called \u201cThe Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibit was prompted by this year\u2019s 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the ratification of the 19th<\/sup> Amendment, recognizing the right of women in the United States to vote. In a similar recognition of the anniversary, the University has created an online celebration of \u201cVisionary Women of Rochester<\/a>,\u201d a gallery highlighting the lives and legacies of 25 women who had roots in Rochester\u2014both at the University and in the region.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Stiles, RMSC\u2019s marketing communications manager, says the exhibit is the work of both the center\u2019s staff and members of the community. \u201cWe are very excited and passionate about this exhibit,\u201d she says. \u201cThere has been so much love, and so much effort put into it by both our own internal team and also the community. And I think that is probably the most amazing part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Rochester Museum & Science Center exhibit \u201cThe Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World\u201d was prompted by the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, recognizing the right of women in the United States to vote. (Photo: Rochester Museum & Science Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The center engaged 50 community curators, 11 partner organizations, and also hired three diversity and inclusion consultants through a grant from the Rochester Area Community Foundation to ensure that the exhibit was as representative as possible, including notable women of Rochester\u2019s Black, Latino, Haudenosaunee, and Asian communities, Stiles says.<\/p>\n

For example, visitors to the exhibit will learn about Jikonsaseh, the \u201cMother of Nations,\u201d who helped unite the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk nations into the Haudenosaunee Confederacy along with contemporary Haudenosaunee changemakers carrying out important work today.<\/p>\n

They will also learn about Aesha Ash, who was born and raised in Rochester, and is the first African American woman hired as a permanent faculty member at the School of American Ballet. And Anna Murray Douglass, who was key stationmaster on Rochester\u2019s Underground Railroad, helping Frederick Douglass lead escaped slaves to safety in Canada.<\/p>\n

The exhibit, which will continue into next spring. The women with connections to the University are:<\/p>\n