About the California Research Team
This website, a collaboration between student, community, and faculty researchers across the state of California and beyond, offers a glimpse of the many women who were inspired to represent their communities and their interests, at the state and national levels. Our original University of California, Irvine research team began their work in 2017, inspired by the 40th anniversary of the 1977 National Women’s Conference. We were joined by research teams based at CSU-Sacramento, UC Davis, UC San Diego, and beyond. We have had an ongoing collaboration with the University of Houston’s Sharing Stories project (https://sharingstories1977.uh.edu/), and our student researchers have been contributing biographies and research essays to their efforts to document the 1977 NWC.
