ELIZABETH EGLESTON GIRAUD has worked as a planner and architectural historian for the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office and the Salt Lake City Planning Division, and she is currently employed at the Utah Department of Transportation. In 2010, she authored Twin Falls, Idaho for the Images of America series (Arcadia). She is pursuing her second graduate degree at the University of Utah, this time in history, with a focus on the Progressive Era. TIFFANY H. GREENE graduated as a Service-Learning Scholar from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education, specializing in history. She enjoys learning about and sharing stories of women past and present. She currently works as a historical research consultant for Better Days 2020, where she has spent the last eighteen months researching Utah’s rural suffrage movement. KATHERINE KITTERMAN is the historical director for Better Days 2020, a nonprofit dedicated to sharing Utah women’s history.
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MIRIAM B. MURPHY attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated with a degree in English from the University of Utah. After working in New York and San Francisco, she returned to Utah, where she began a long career with the Utah State Historical Society. Murphy wrote extensively on Utah history, and her poem about the 1924 Castle Gate mine disaster was selected for the state’s centennial literary anthology.
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She is the co-author of two recent books about the history of women’s voting rights in Utah, Champions of Change: Twenty-Five Women Who Made History and Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah. Kitterman is also a Ph.D. candidate at American University. Her dissertation analyzes the rhetoric of women’s struggle for suffrage in nineteenth-century Utah, highlighting the two-way connection between suffragists in West and East.
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REBEKAH RYAN CLARK is a historian for Better Days 2020 and co-author of Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah. She holds a law degree from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and a history and literature degree from Harvard University, where her honors thesis examined Utah’s national suffrage activism.
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WENDY SIMMONS JOHNSON is the regional director for the Commonwealth Heritage Group, Inc. Ogden, Utah, Office. She has worked for over twenty years in historic archaeology and historic research in the Intermountain West, specializing in archaeological documentation of the transcontinental railroad throughout Utah. Simmons Johnson received her master’s degree from Brigham Young University in 1992, with her thesis focusing on the role of women in ancient Middle Eastern cities between the years 0–400 A.D.
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