Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories
Event description
Alice Look and Jane Applegate, founders of the Remarkable Women Project, have a very special Mothers Day event in store for you. Come hear true stories about remarkable women in history who inspire everyone to live courageously. Some of these women are featured in the new book, Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories. Others will be celebrated in books and TV shows still in development. All of them are relevant to women today.
Through a presentation, discussion and audience Q&A, you’ll hear about women who overcame tremendous societal, gender, and racial barriers to make their mark on society and culture. And perhaps you’ll be moved to get involved with this project yourself!
This event is free; books will be available for purchase and signing. (Dare we say this is a perfect Mother’s Day gift - to honor the remarkable woman in your life?)
About the Book
Throughout history, remarkable women have taken breathtaking risks, and overcome tremendous societal, gender and racial barriers to make their indelible mark on society and culture, with impacts that still reverberate today. But most of these important stories have not been celebrated – until now.
From Ada Lovelace, who was the first computer programmer in 1843 to Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth”, to Katalin Kariko, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine for her groundbreaking work that made COVID-19 vaccines possible -- remarkable women have changed our world. Throughout history, they have taken breathtaking risks, and overcome tremendous societal, gender and racial barriers to make their indelible mark on society and culture. But most of these important stories have not been celebrated – until now. In Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories, you’ll be inspired as you read about their perseverance and passion as they pursued their dreams. Meet 23 women who have made a difference as activists, scientists, inventors, bold creatives, fearless journalists and aviators.
Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories is the first in a series of books for everyone who wants to have a complete perspective of history and the women who helped shape our world.
About the Founders
Alice Look, of Darien, Connecticut, is a writer, former journalist and veteran television production executive. At A&E, she managed an in-house production team that created episodic series, documentaries and short form content for A&E, fyi, HISTORY and Lifetime networks. She oversaw the process from concept pitch, rights, script, edit, music and delivery for domestic and global distribution.
Jane Applegate, of Verplanck in Westchester County, NY, has produced a variety of feature films and documentaries, including To Keep the Light, a period drama set in Jonesport, Maine in the 1860’s and health docs for NBC and Discovery Health. She teaches the Business of Film course at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. Applegate is the author of five books on business success and the co-founder of Showbizing.com, a company offering entertainment career guidance and production consulting.