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The 2026 Women Impacting ISU calendar will be officially unveiled during an open-house reception and program recognizing the honorees on Friday, Jan. 23, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.
The program, which will be livestreamed, begins at 4 p...
Asma Khalid
Asma Khalid, award-winning political correspondent and host of the BBC news podcast “The Global Story,” will visit Iowa State University on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, as the 2026 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Khalid will present “Our American Experiment – 250 Years On” at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.
The presentation wi...
In addition to hosting the annual Mary Louise Smith Chair in Woman and Politics on Feb. 10, the Catt Center is co-sponsoring two events this spring with the Center for Cyclone Civics as part of the America at 250 celebration. Both events are free and open to the public.
Karen M. KedrowskiOn March 3, Catt Center director Karen M. Kedrowski will present “Women in t...
Last fall, four Iowa State University graduate students and one undergraduate student collaborated with Catt Center director Karen M. Kedrowski to create content for a SHE MATTERS 2026 report. Essentially a “status of women in Iowa” report, previous SHE MATTERS reports were published in 2012, 2015, and 2016.
Kedrowski was approached by a group of women’s organizat...
Since 2012, the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics has been tracking the gender composition of county and municipal boards in Iowa as part of its Gender Balance Project.
The project began in 2012 after legislation requiring gender balance on all state-level appointed boards and commissions in Iowa was extended to include county and municipal boards ...
