This episode is a special episode to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX and features an intergenerational conversation on the legacy and impact of Title IX between law student and Title IX activist, Lindsey LaForest and law professor and Title IX historian, Nancy Chi Cantalupo. This episode is hosted by NAWL member, Siobhan Barco who is a Ph.D. candidate for Princeton University and specializes in legal history.
Siobhan Barco is a NAWL member who has worked as a civil litigator and holds a Master's degree with distinction in History from Princeton University, specializing in the fields of US Legal History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality History. Her research on the history of women and the law continues to be funded by Princeton’s University Fellowship.
Lindsey LaForest received her Bachelor’s Degree with Distinction in Sport Management from the University of Michigan and holds a JD from Wayne State University Law School, where she was a Solway Scholar. She has served as a Title IX Research Assistant at Wayne State University Law School and as a law clerk at Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, PLC.
Nancy Chi Cantalupo is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University. She is a nationally-recognized scholar and expert on Title IX, sexual harassment, and gender-based violence in education. Her scholarship draws from her over 25 years of anti-campus sexual harassment and gender-based violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney, and policymaker and focuses on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence.