Elise Frattura is associate dean of the
UW-Milwaukee School of Education; Amy June Rowley is a professor at the school and coordinator of the American Sign Language Program there. The two join Jane Hampden. Rowley was at the center of the Supreme Court case Hendrick Hudson Board of Education v. Rowley 25 years ago, when her parents requested a sign language interpreter in her upstate New York classroom.
A conference on the legacy of the case, Rethinking Rowley, is planned at UWM March 21-23. Amy June and her parents will take part.
Annie Melchior is program manager for the UW-Milwaukee Department of Film and creator of the Women Without Borders Film Festival, which continues through Sunday at the Union Theatre on the UWM campus. All screenings are free and open to the public. Melchior speaks with Bonnie North.
Laura Fitzgerald is author of Veil of Roses, a Bantom Trade Paperback. She's a Milwaukee-area native now living in Arizona; she talks with Jane Hampden.
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