Making History Fun Again, Monthly Series
Thu, Oct 15
|Redwood Room
Rae Alexandra will present “Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Changed the Bay Area,”
Time & Location
Oct 15, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Redwood Room, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA
About the event
Award-winning arts and culture journalist Rae Alexandra will present “Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Changed the Bay Area,” a spirited journey through the lives of 35 remarkable women whose courage, creativity and determination helped shape San Francisco and Northern California.
Drawn from Alexandra’s long-running KQED series Rebel Girls From Bay Area History, her book, Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area (published by City Lights and available in bookstores all over Northern California), restores an extraordinary and diverse group of women to their rightful place in the region’s story. Their lives span the earliest years of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area through the present day.
About the Speaker
Born and raised in Wales, Alexandra began her career in London as a music journalist for the spirited rock ’n’ roll magazine Kerrang!. After moving to San Francisco in 2002, she contributed to alt-weeklies including SF Weekly and…
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