Jone Johnson Lewis is a minister, web writer, and teacher who has researched women's history around the world and in different eras with a special interest in 19th century social reform and religion.
Experience:
In addition to writing for the About.com Women's History site since 1999, Jone has taught on the topic of women in religious history as an adjunct faculty member at Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Jone brings, as well, her perspective as a participant in many facets of the women's movement since the late 1960s. She has lectured on such topics as "Is There a Feminist Ethics?", "Women's Leadership," "Unitarian and Universalist Women," and "Women of Ethical Culture"; on key women including Julia Ward Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Anna Garlin Spencer, and Lydia Maria Child; and on male feminists Frederick Douglass and T. W. Higginson.
Jone has also served as a faculty member of the Humanist Institute (including focus on women's contributions) and as a training instructor and department director in the private sector (including attention to women's role in the workplace).
Education:
Jone's B.A. in Management is from Mundelein College's Women in Business program, and her M.Div. is from Meadville/Lombard Theological School, where she had a special interest in studying the history of women in the world's religions and in social reform.
From Jone Johnson Lewis:
In studying women's contributions to history and culture, I find a rich resource of role models and ideas to give me more hope and some cautionary notes for the future of humanity. I hope you'll join me in exploring women's heritage.