Gender, Sport and Society
Words to Action: Gender, Sport and Society
March 14, 2018
San Jos茅 State University鈥檚 Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change hosted , a special event featuring some of the leading voices for gender equity and women鈥檚 rights in the sports world.
Event Photos
Keynotes
- Harry Edwards
- Nancy Hogshead-Makar
Panels
Taking the Field鈥擳railblazers in Sport
Moderator:
- Kat Williams
Panelists:
- Anne Warner Cribbs
- Ann Meyers Drysdale
- Stacey Johnson
- Marie Tuite
Beyond the Field鈥擮pportunity and Empowerment
Moderator:
- Hannah Gordon
Panelists:
- Ruthie Bolton
- Karen Brodkin
- Danielle Slaton
- Katie Sowers
Set the Expectation: A Conversation
Brenda Tracy turned surviving personal trauma into a public call for action. She is the lobbyist, nurse, mother and advocate behind , a campaign that educates the public about the impact of sexual violence. Thanks in part to her testimony, Oregon has passed two laws designed to protect victims of sex crimes. She will be in conversation with Nancy Hogshead-Makar.
About the Speakers and Panelists
Ruthie Bolton
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and a former member of the Women鈥檚 National Basketball
Association鈥檚 Sacramento Monarchs team (1997-2004). A 2011 inductee into the WNBA鈥檚
Hall of Fame, Bolton is a survivor of abuse and has become a public advocate in the
fight against domestic violence.
Karen Brodkin
Executive vice president of content strategy and partnerships at WME/IMG Worldwide.
Formerly an executive at Fox Sports Media Group, Brodkin helped launch the Big Ten
Network and Fox Sports 1. She chairs the Los Angeles Sports Council board and is on
the board of L.A. Family Housing.
Anne Warner Cribbs
Olympic gold medalist swimmer and the co-founder of the American Basketball League,
the first professional basketball league for women in the United States. President
and CEO of the San Francisco Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee鈥檚 executive committee,
Cribbs has created countless opportunities for athletes to compete across Northern
California.
Harry Edwards, 鈥�64 Sociology, 鈥�16 Honorary Doctorate
Professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and founder
of the Olympic Project for Human Rights. Author of The Revolt of the Black Athlete, Edwards is considered to be the father of the sociology of sport.
Hannah Gordon
General counsel of the San Francisco 49ers and secretary of the 49ers Foundation.
Previously, she worked on NFL player contracts, salary cap compliance, the 2011 NFL
collective bargaining agreement and labor issues with the NFL Management Council.
Nancy Hogshead-Makar
Three-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer, civil rights lawyer, and CEO of Champion
Women, a nonprofit dedicated to gender equity in sport. Formerly the senior director
of advocacy at the Women鈥檚 Sports Foundation, Hogshead-Makar co-authored Equal Play, Title IX and Social Change and served as an expert witness in Title IX cases.
Stacey Johnson, 鈥�80 Public Relations
NCAA champion fencer and former U.S. Olympic Committee board member. She led an international
campaign to bring equity to woman fencers. The first woman to hold a four-year term
as president of U.S.A. Fencing鈥檚 National Governing Board, Johnson is president of
Valencia College鈥檚 East and Winter Park campuses.
Ann Meyers Drysdale
Basketball Hall of Famer and first woman to receive a four-year college athletic scholarship
from UCLA. The award-winning broadcaster, Olympic medalist and recipient of the NCAA
Silver Anniversary Award (2003) is vice president of both the Phoenix Suns and the
Phoenix Mercury.
Danielle Slaton
Sideline reporter for the San Jose Earthquakes and former soccer analyst for Fox Sports
and the Big Ten Network, played for the Women鈥檚 United Soccer Association and the
U.S. Women鈥檚 National Team, earning a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics and bronze
in the 2003 FIFA Women鈥檚 World Cup. Her father, Frank Slaton, 鈥�71 Physical Education,
was a member of 91猎奇鈥檚 famed Speed City team.
Katie Sowers
Seasonal offensive assistant coach for the San Francisco 49ers. Formerly the athletic
director of Kansas City Titans, Sowers was a member on the 2013 U.S. Women鈥檚 National
Football team and played in the Women鈥檚 Football Alliance for eight years. She is
the NFL鈥檚 first openly gay coach.
Marie Tuite
First woman to serve in a permanent position as 91猎奇鈥檚 athletic director-one of nine
women athletic directors at 128 NCAA Division 1 schools in 2017. Point guard for her
college basketball team, Tuite was the third woman inducted into Central Michigan
University鈥檚 Hall of Fame.
Kat Williams
President of the International Women鈥檚 Baseball Center and professor of women鈥檚 sport history at Marshall University. Author of The All-American Girls After the AAGPBL: How Playing Pro Ball Shaped Their Lives, Williams hopes to build an educational center and museum dedicated to women鈥檚 baseball in Rockford, Illinois.
Media Inquiries
For media inquires, please contact 91猎奇 Media Relations Director Pat Harris at 408-924-1748 or pat.harris@sjsu.edu.
