Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is scheduled to discuss her children’s picture book, “Bold and Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote,” Tuesday evening at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Gillibrand, D-New York, will field questions from author and British media personality Amanda de Cadenet and the audience about the book aimed for children 6 to 9 years old.
The book profiles such well-known figures as Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth to lesser known women such as Alice Paul, the author of the Equal Rights Amendment, and Mary Church Terrell, one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree and an activist for civil rights and suffrage.
Gillibrand highlights an important lesson from each woman’s life from “dare to be different” to “fight together.”
“In these pages, little girls and little boys will see themselves and see what’s possible if you do use your voice and you speak out and you speak up,” Gillibrand said in a Nov. 9 appearance on the CBS late-night talk show “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
Admission is $20 or $33, which includes a copy of the book.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and is organized by Writers Bloc Presents, a nonprofit organization whose goals include fostering the significance and importance of literature and the written word as an art form.
Gillibrand, who graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 1991, was elected to the first of two terms in the House in 2006. She was appointed to the Senate in 2009 by then-New York Gov. David Paterson to fill the vacancy caused by Hillary Clinton’s resignation to become secretary of state.
Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 for the remaining two years of Clinton’s term, was elected to a full six-year term in 2012 and re-elected Nov. 6 with 64 percent of the vote.
Gillibrand told Colbert she will give “a long, hard thought of consideration” toward running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.