Past Directors of the Susan B. Anthony Center

Nora Bredes, Director, 1999-2011

As director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership, her work involved celebrating women's achievements and analyzing barriers to their progress. Under Nora's guidance, The Center began to conduct biennial surveys of the number of women serving in New York's local governments and sponsor the Women Leading Local Governments Initiative, an effort that links women elected to New York's city and county governments to each other and to public policy experts and resources. Among her many accomplishments at the University was the expansion of the center's hallmark program, the Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Susan B. Anthony Conversations, which take place over Meliora Weekend.

In 2006, she created "100 Years Since Susan B.," a yearlong, community-wide examination of women's progress since Susan B. Anthony's death in 1906. In 2010, under Ms. Bredes' leadership, the Anthony Center launched the First Women website, an online resource dedicated to the first women elected to political office in New York State.

October 13, 1950 - August 18, 2011

Please visit the Nora Bredes memorial website

Nan Johnson, Founder, Director, 1995-1999