Today, we are broadcasting a lecture given by the scholar Rebekah Ryan Clark, Historical Research Associate for Better Days 2020, an organization celebrating and educating the public on landmark moments in women’s suffrage. The subject of Rebekah Ryan Clark’s lecture is Alice Merrill Horne, a key figure in the suffrage movement and in the development of artistic institutions in the West, including several Museums, government programs, and the careers of artists like Minerva Teichert. The lecture begins with an introduction by the CEO of Better Days 200, Neylan McBaine.
ABOUT REBEKAH RYAN CLARK
Rebekah Ryan Clark holds a law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and attended Harvard Law School as a visiting student. She earned her bachelor’s degree in American history and literature from Harvard University, where she wrote her honors thesis on Utah’s post-statehood participation in the national women’s suffrage movement. She participated in a post-graduate research fellowship on Latter-day Saint women in the twentieth century at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Church History. After practicing law for four years in Boston, she worked as a research historian at the Church History Department and taught the American Foundations course at BYU–Idaho as an online adjunct faculty member. She is currently a member of the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team. Her upcoming book, Thinking Women: A Timeline of Utah Suffrage, which she co-authored with Katherine Kitterman, is being published by Deseret Book and will be available in stores by the end of December.