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Cecile Richards

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
7:30pm Pacific Time
KQED Broadcast: 02/02/2025

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A Tribute to Cecile Richards

We’re celebrating the life of Cecile Richards with a re-broadcast of her 2018 appearance for City Arts & Lectures. Richards was a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic justice. As President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, Richards worked to increase affordable access to reproductive health care and to build a healthier and safer world for women and young people. After starting her career as a labor organizer, working with women earning the minimum wage, Richards went on to start her own grassroots organizations, and later served as Deputy Chief of Staff to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. In 2011 and 2012, she was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. 

On April 11, 2018, Richards came to the Nourse Theater in San Francisco to talk about her just-published memoir, Make Trouble.

 

Mina Kim is KQED News’ evening anchor and the Friday host of Forum. She reports on a wide range of issues affecting the Bay Area and interviews newsmakers, local leaders, and innovators.