Video at left below for the 35th anniversary of the First National Women’s Conference exhibit and speaking event in NYC, with Gloria Steinem, Elizabeth Holtzman, Michelle Cearcy, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Carmen Delgado, Melba Tolliver, and Amy Simon in theatrical performance, and many more participants and friends in celebration of the legacy. Video at right: Forty Years Later: Photographer Helps Commemorate The National Women's Conference.

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  • NYC Celebration for the 35th anniversary

    Video produced by UMass on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the First National Women’s Conference, at a speaking event and exhibit of Diana Mara Henry’s official photography for the President’s Commission on the Observanc of International Women’s year, including the Houston conference and the NY State meeting preceding it. Speakers include Gloria Steinem, Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, DMH, Peggy Kokernot, Sylvia Ortiz, Michelle Cearcy, theatrical portrait of Bella Abzug. 12 minutes.

  • Houston Public Media 40th Anniversary conference University of Houston

    Houston Public Media Interview of Diana Mara Henry, on her official photographs for the President’s Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year, including the NY State Women’s Meeting, the First National Women’s Conference at Houston, the Report to the President at the White House in March 1978 and the official document, the Spirit of Houston.

Thank you to Judy Wu, Director of the Humanities Center, Professor of Asian American Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow, University of California, Irvine for sending the interview she conducted with Diana Mara Henry to open the session with her students!