Keynote Featuring Erika Bachiochi

The modern women’s movement’s promise of autonomy comes up short – devaluing marriage, parenting, and, ultimately, the distinct experience and the immeasurable contribution of women to society. In this Willows Academy keynote, Erika Bachiochi will discuss a lost vision of women’s rights centered on responsibilities to God, self, family, and community. She will offer a guide for how we might better value the culturally essential work of the home and promote authentic personal and political freedom for women and men alike.

Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar specializing in Equal Protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, Catholic social teaching, and sexual ethics. She is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge where she founded and directs the Wollstonecraft Project, MA, and a 2018 visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Erika is the author of numerous essays and 3 books, including The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision. Erika lives in the Boston area with her husband and six children.

About Raising Great Girls

The Raising Great Girls speaker series offers relevant, inspiring, and practical formation to parents to empower them as the primary educators of their daughters. The series is open to Willows families and the wider community with a goal of promoting friendship and community among parents with shared goals. Each event includes a reception in addition to a talk or panel discussion and time for questions and answers.