Sue Armitage, Distinguished Professor of History, Emerita, taught women's history at Washington State University for 30 years. She is the coeditor (with Elizabeth Jameson) of The Women's West (1987) and Writing the Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women's West (1997), and of numerous articles on western women's history. She is a member of the Washington Women's History Consortium Advisory Board.

Karen Blair grew up on Long Island, NY. She attended Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts for her B.A. and SUNY/Buffalo for her M. A. and Ph.D. in History. She has taught at CWU since 1987, balancing teaching with travel and research to explore the history of Pacific Northwest women and the history of women's voluntary associations in America. She devotes her spare time to playing classical piano, including ensemble performance with chamber musicians.

Nancy Driscol Engle, PhD is an independent historian, with specialties in U.S. Women's history and in the Pacific Northwest. She is collaborating with Tincan, Spokane, on the Suffrage Centennial Workshop. She serves as the principal scholar working on the grant awarded by the Washington State Consortium of Women's History to the Spokane Chapter of the League of Women Voters. Its focus is on the discussion surrounding the passage of the state and proposed federal equal rights amendment in Eastern Washington.

Jennifer Ross-Nazzal currently serves as the Historian for the NASA Johnson Space Center. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Washington State University in 2004. Her manuscript—which is based on her dissertation —Emma Smith DeVoe: Pragmatic Politician, is currently being reviewed by the University of Washington Press for publication. She lives in Houston with her husband, cats, and dog.

Dr. Becky Jager earned her doctorate from the University of New Mexico with the honors of Distinction in 2007. Dr. Jager's areas of focus are: the American West, Latin America , and Gender Studies. Dr. Jager currently teaches Modern American History at the University of Idaho . There she also helps coach the Lady Vandal Swim Team. While teaching and coaching at the University of Idaho , Becky is in the process of revising her manuscript (on Indian women as Cultural Intermediaries) for Oklahoma Press.

While pursuing her academic career Dr. Jager has been an entrepreneur, owner / operator of Gold Medal Swimming Inc. since 1989. It is a company that offers swim clinics, motivational speeches, swim camps for competitive swimmers around the world, and a local age-group swim team in Moscow , Idaho . Becky has managed to juggle two careers in athletics and academia with humor, and an unwavering commitment to young people who are striving to meet their academic and athletic goals.

Like the women we will be talking about, Becky has been creative in her career endeavors. She, like many American women, has had to design a flexible career path that allows for intermittent interruptions to focus on raising and supporting a family. Together with her husband of 24 years, the couple raise two young boys as they run a successful family business with the sole purpose to develop student athletes into confident and successful adults.