Pat Mitchell, Dangerous Woman
Pat Mitchell declares herself to be a dangerous woman and is sounding the alarm to other women. She says that it’s a dangerous world and it needs us more than ever—needs our experience, our voices, our ability to bridge differences and forge collaborative alliances to right the many wrongs in the world. In her new book, Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World, Pat tracks her own course from a childhood on a Southern cotton farm through confronting injustices of racism and equal rights and forming alliances to tell powerful stories as one of the first women broadcast journalists in the 70’s. Being a lifetime advocate for women and girls led her to zig-zag her way through a career in media, seeking out opportunities to tell women’s stories, and then charting many other firsts: the first woman president of PBS and…
