ACTS OF COURAGE
A Benefit for Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific
FEATURING A CONVERSATION WITH
Sarah Weddington SARAH WEDDINGTON is a leading women's rights speaker and attorney. At the age of 26, she was thrust into the national spotlight as the attorney who would successfully argue the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, ensuring a woman's right to privacy. She went on to be the first woman from Austin ever elected to the Texas House of Representatives and was a Special Assistant to President Jimmy Carter. She continues to inspire students through her teaching at the University of Texas.
Cecile Richards CECILE RICHARDS is the President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. At nearly 800 health centers, Planned Parenthood provides health care services to nearly three million people and sex education to more than 1.1 million people every year. In 2011, she led an unprecedented nationwide campaign to preserve access to Planned Parenthood preventive care through federal programs. In 2012, she was named to the TIME 100, the prestigious list of the 100 most influenial people in the world.
MODERATED BY
Shefali Razdan Duggal SHEFALI RAZDAN DUGGAL, a Democratic political activist who resides in San Francisco, has been active in electoral politics and community organizations locally and nationally for more than a decade. The National Diversity Council chose Shefali as one of the "2012 Most Powerful and Influential Women of California."