AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Kirstin Downey will be appearing at the following locations to promote her new book:The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and the Minimum Wage.

 February 2010

June 2010

June 30 - 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store

1628 16th Street, Denver Colo.

July 1 - 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store

1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colo.

Last year's events...

 March 2009 

March 12, 2009 - 4:30 p.m.

ILR School, Cornell University

105 Ives Lecture Hall

Ithaca, NY 14850

Ph: 607-255-2223

Photo: Social Security Administration

March 16, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.

Pembroke Center, Brown University

List Art Building

64 College Street, Room 120

Providence, RI

Ph: 401-863-2643 

2101 Wisconsin Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20007 

March 23, 2009  12:00 Noon

Library of Congress

Mumford Room, Madison Building

Independence Ave SE (between 1st and 2nd), Washington, DC

Ph: 202-707-5221 

Photo: U.S. Social Security Administration; OASIS

March 25, 2009 - 12:30 p.m.

AFL-CIO Headquarters 

Triangle Anniversary Event

815 16th Street NW, at 16th and L Streets

Washington, DC

March 26, 2009 - 6:30 p.m. 

Harvard Club of DC at Hogan & Hartson

Litigation & Conference Center (lower level)

555 13th Street NW

(Metro Center)

Washington, DC

Ph: 202-337-1300 

March 31, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.  

Mount Holyoke College

Gamble Auditorium Art Building 

50 College Street

South Hadley, MA 01075

Ph:  413-538-2000 

April 2009 

Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza 

1475 Western Avenue

Albany, NY 12203

Ph: 518-489-4761

April 3, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.

Hartwick College

One Hartwick Drive

Oneonta, NY 13820

Ph: 607-431-4000

Photo: Library of Congress

April 4, 2009 - 11:30 a.m.

Green Toad Bookstore

198 Main Street

Oneonta, NY 13829

Ph: 607-433-8898

April 11 - 8 a.m. & 11 p.m.

April 12 - 7 p.m. 

BookTV on C-SPAN 2  

Downey's appearance at the Library of Congress 

Washington, DC 

April 21, 2009 - 4 p.m. 

The Frances Perkins Center Remembers Frances Perkins - Followed by Book Signing

Great Hall, Frances Perkins Building

U.S. Department of Labor 

200 Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC

Ph: 207-208-8955 

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis joins Kirstin Downey; Dr. Christopher Breiseth, president-emeritus of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; and Frances Perkins's grandson, Tomlin Coggeshall, to celebrate Perkins's commitment to social justice.

FREE Admission. RSVP: info@FrancesPerkinsCenter.org

April 21, 2009 - 6 p.m.

Frances Perkins Center Launch Party/Book Signing 

Woman's National Democratic Club

1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

Ph: 202-232-7363

Suggested Donation $50.  RSVP by April 14th: info@FrancesPerkinsCenter.org

May 2009

May 3, 2009 - 5 p.m.

Politics & Prose 

5015 Connecticut Ave NW

Washington, DC 20008

Ph: 202-363-7663

May 14, 2009 - 6 p.m.

Book Passage

1 Ferry Building

San Francisco

Ph:  415-835-1020

May 18, 2009 - 7 p.m.

Powell's Bookstore

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.

Beaverton, Ore. 97005

Ph:  503-228-4651

June 2009

June 5, 2009 - 1 p.m.

Georgetown Senior Center

Washington, DC

Wendy Erlanger

Ph:  202-333-9348

June 20, 2009

Roosevelt Reading Festival

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

4079 Post Road

Hyde Park, NY

Ph:  845-486-7745

June 29, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.

Friendship Heights Village Center

4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD.

Ph:  301-656-2797

July 2009

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July 16, 2009 - 12 noon

Women's City Club of New York

pauletteg@wcny.org

September 2009

September 26, 2009

Library of Congress

2009 National Book Festival

WBND Chosen for "History and Biography" 

National Mall

Washington, DC

Ph: 202-707-5000

October 2009

October 16 - 7 p.m.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, DC

November 2009

November 5 - 4 p.m.

Cosmopolitan Club, New York City

November 5 - 6 p.m.

Butler Library

Columbia University

New York City

December 2009

December 9, 2009 - 10:30 a.m.

Donald Shire Lecture

US Department of Labor

Frances Perkins Building

200 Constitution Avenue NW

Washington DC 20210.

 January 2010

Thursday, January 14 - 4 p.m.

"Securing Social Security for Another 75 Years"

Social Security Reaches Its 75th Birthday

Participant in conference sponsored by Frances Perkins Center, which will include the premiere of a new documentary on Frances Perkins's life produced by Karenna Gore Schiff and Catherine Corman. Other speakers include Adam Cohen, author of "Nothing To Fear," and Dr. Christopher Breiseth, former president of the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Program will highlight Frances Perkins's pivotal role in creating Social Security, and discuss growing threats to the program today from conservative Democrats and Republicans.  

Harvard Club of New York City

35 West 44th Street

New York, NY 212-840-6600

For more information: www.francesperkinscenter.org

(Event is a fund-raiser for the Frances Perkins Center. There will be a fee to attend the reception, panel discussions and film premiere.)

KIRSTIN DOWNEY

Kirstin Downey is available for speaking engagements. For more information and to schedule an appearance, please contact info@kirstindowney.com.