Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 7:00 p.m.

Location:  Columbia Public Library, 100 West Broadway

Program:  Women and History, Mary Kay Blakely, Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism

Blakely, a contributing editor to Ms. Magazine since 1981, has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue and Family Circle. She has received many honors such as the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, Blakely has appeared on several television programs, and her written works have been collected in fourteen writing anthologies published in five countries. She is currently a journalism professor at the School.