January Lecture: Anna Fierst, A Family Member Reflects on the Life and Times of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Fierst, A Family Member Reflects on the Life and Times of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Tuesday, January 20
10:30–11:30 AM
Online

Anna Eleanor Fierst is a great granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt and is the current chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill in Hyde Park, New York. She is the only daughter of Roosevelt's oldest grandchild, Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves. Anna has a professional background in publication editing and marketing and managed the Communications Department at the Woman's National Democratic Club before becoming its president in 2014. Stepping down from this role after several years, she became active in an affiliate non-profit, the National Women's Foundation, and is now its vice-chair. Anna initially enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but concluded her studies at Columbia University. She and her husband raised two children in Bethesda, Maryland.

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