UVU’s chapter of Utah Women for Higher Education (UWHEN) will is pleased to announce that Neylan McBaine, the CEO of Better Days 2020, as their Spring 2020 luncheon speaker.

In 2020 Utah is celebrating two special anniversaries: the 150th anniversary of Utahns being the first American women to vote under an equal suffrage law, and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which extended women's voting rights throughout the nation. How is it possible that Utah was fifty years ahead of the rest of the nation in giving women a public voice? And what does that legacy mean for us today?

As the CEO of Better Days 2020, Neylan is responsible for leading her group in popularizing Utah women's history through education, the arts and events. Neylan will describe Utah's leadership in the women's advocacy movement, describe how Utah is honoring that legacy in 2020, and asking what more we can each do to honor that legacy today.

Since co-founding Better Days 2020 three years ago, Neylan has become a leader in speaking and writing about women's leadership and the U.S. suffrage movement, with a specific focus on Utah and the west's early role in that movement. She has developed a team of historians, educators and marketers that have changed the way Utahns view and understand women's history, leading to shifts in current perceptions of ourselves and Utahns generally. As a TEDx presenter, columnist and writer, Neylan has been called a "change agent" and "uniquely important." Her third book, PIONEERING THE VOTE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WEST'S FIRST SUFFRAGE TRIUMPHS, will be published by Shadow Mountain in February 2020. Neylan is a graduate of Yale University, mother to three daughters, and lives in Salt Lake City.

Details about this event:

Please join your UVU UWHEN colleagues for our Spring 2020 luncheon. Lunch will be available at 11:30am and our program will begin at noon. Please print your event ticket and bring it to the sign-in table as you enter Centre Stage. To allow enough time for accurate catering orders, RSVPs must be made no later than 8:30am on February 19.