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Connections: National Women's Hall of Fame

On October 3, ten women will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. We'll talk to one of the inductees, an award-winning researcher from the University of Rochester who discovered how bacteria communicate to attack human cells and initiate disease. And we'll talk to several inductees from past years, including a woman whose name landed on a major piece of federal legislation. Our guests:

  • Barbara Iglewski, University of Rochester, 2015 inductee
  • Lily Ledbetter, past inductee, the name behind the Lily Ledbetter Act that was the first piece of legislation that President Obama signed into law
  • Kathrine Switzer, past inductee who was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon
  • Judy Pipher, Women's Hall of Fame Board of Directors
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Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.