Please join us for a powerful conversation with three dynamic women and all for the benefit of the Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Women (RI NOW)!This event will take place on Tuesday, September 15th at 8pm EDT and the cost is $20.20.

Hilary Levey Friedman, Linda Scott, and Dr. Michele Harper all have new books out and we'll tie them all together in what will surely be a memorable conversation about issues impacting women today.

Books are available in theRWR Bookshop and proceeds from book sales will also benefit RI NOW.

Prof. Hilary Levey Friedman is a sociologist and expert on beauty pageants, childhood and parenting, competitive afterschool activities, and popular culture who teaches courses in the Department of Education at Brown University. She holds degrees from Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Cambridge.

Linda Scott is a professor emeritus of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Oxford and a senior consulting fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. She is the founder of and senior advisor to the Global Business Coalition for Women’s Economic Empowerment, and she was named one of the top twenty-five world thinkers of 2015 in Prospect. Scott works with multinational corporations, international agencies like the World Bank, national governments, and global NGOs, designing programs to better include women in the world economy. She lives in Rhode Island.

Michele Harper has worked as an emergency room physician for more than a decade at various institutions, including as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. The Beauty in Breaking is her first book.

RI NOW Presents Hilary Levey Friedman, Linda Scott, and Dr. Michele Harper in Conversation...brought to you by Reading With Robin