by Kathi Santora | Sep 11, 2025
(September 11, 2025) After painful, but necessary, months of research, deliberations and thought, the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Board of Directors voted to dissolve the MWHC as of December 31, 2025. But we are not leaving without a celebration of all that we...
by Kathi Santora | May 8, 2025
Lightkeeper Fannie Mae Salter cleans the lens of the Turkey Point Light, where she served as the head keeper from the time her husband, Clarence Walter “Harry” Salter, passed in 1925 until her retirement in 1947 when the light was automated. She was the...
by Kathi Santora | Mar 18, 2025
(March 18, 2025) In 1978, as a young sports journalist, Melissa Ludtke won a lawsuit for the right to be allowed in Major League Baseball locker rooms. Join the discussion on March 20 at 7:00 p.m. as she looks back on how she pioneered equal participation by women in...
by Kathi Santora | Mar 1, 2025
(March 1, 2025) Maryland Nonprofits is hosting an open community conversation about the importance of justice, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. Nonprofit leaders, foundations, civic leaders, elected officials, business leaders, and members of the...
by Kathi Santora | Feb 6, 2025
(February 6, 2025) “I turned 60 and became keenly aware of the negative, off-the cuff comments about women at that age on television, in movies and during talk show interviews. There’s some kind of mystique that once we turn a certain age that we have nothing...
by Kathi Santora | Feb 1, 2025
(February 1, 2025) Since inauguration day 2025, reports have emerged about massive proposed and actual funding cuts to services for vulnerable people; public slurs against people with disabilities; and cancellations of programs and observance days that honor women,...
