Women have played a key role throughout history in labor movements and securing workers’ rights in this country. It is a role often completely ignored or at best underplayed. On today’s episode of WATT we are joined by three woman who have had a profound impact on labor movements in WNY and beyond: Catherine Creighton is the Director of Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab; Jaz Brisack is a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, [...]

What is experiential learning and how can this model of student engagement be one of the most promising approaches to solving some of the world’s most complex problems? Join me for a convention with experiential learning guru Dr. Mara Huber and three of her students to learn more about Huber’s innovative models that center on the idea of students adding value to problem solving.  According to Huber, students- or non-licensed or degreed individuals- have something that has worth or significance. [...]

According to the CDC: A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. It is the number- one cause of injury to American women; of the two million injured annually, more than half a million of those injuries require medical attention while about 145,000 require overnight hospitalization. Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. In 2019 Erie County experienced 14 domestic violence related homicides. On today’s episode of WATT, we will explore [...]

How will the workplace be reimagined? What will leadership and power look like? And what role will 21st century feminism play in shaping this landscape? The pandemic, a reckoning with structural and institutional racism and the great resignation have all disrupted and redefined the workplace. While all women have felt the impact of these circumstances in specific ways, including an unprecedented number leaving the workplace as a result of the pandemic, Black woman and Women of Color have felt the [...]

March is Women’s History Month. Did You Know Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s [...]