Tickets are now available for The Women’s Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s A Conversation with Dr. Mae Jemison on Thursday, April 5 at the Cintas Center.
Jemison was the first African American woman in space and is an engineer, physician and STEM advocate.
Tickets can be purchased online at cincinnatiwomensfund.org. General admission tickets are $50 and includes a networking reception. Host and hostess tickets are available at $250 each and includes a private pre-talk reception with Dr. Jemison and priority seating.
Jemison will be interviewed by Melanie Healey, former group president of Procter and Gamble.
Dr. Mae Jemison
The Women’s Fund created “A Conversation With…” as a signature event in 2012 to highlight a female history maker to speak in an intimate setting – where she can share her journey, her triumphs, and her obstacles.
Previous speakers have included Abby Wambach, Cokie Roberts, Lisa Ling, U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, Phyllis S. Sewell and Marian Spencer.
The April 5 event will start at 5:30 p.m. at the Cintas Center. Corporate sponsorship opportunities are also available.
All proceeds benefit The Women’s Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which works to ensure the economic self-sufficiency of women in our region and ignites a shared desire to improve it.
Growing up in the Southside of Chicago, Dr. Jemison was always curious about space. After graduating from Stanford University, she became a medical doctor and worked in Liberia and Sierra Leone as the Peace Corps medical officer.
In 1983 she applied to the NASA program, after being inspired by Sally Ride, the first woman in space, and Nichelle Nichols, who acted in Star Trek. At NASA, she became the first female African-American to become an astronaut and go into space when she flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Serving six years as a NASA astronaut, Dr. Jemison is an icon of both the women’s rights and civil rights movement, inducted into both the National Women’s Hall of Fame (1993) and the International Space Hall of Fame (2004).
After NASA, she began teaching at universities including Dartmouth College and Cornell University and founded research groups to continue the development of scientific knowledge. She is a doctor, a dancer, an astronaut and holds nine doctorate degrees in the humanities, science, and engineering.
