Brandeis Professor to Speak at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit

WALTHAM, MA – A Brandeis University professor is among a group of women selected to Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit next week.

Anita Hill will host one of the main stage interviews during the three-day event that includes talks from Ivanka Trump, Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg and Apple retail and online stores SVP Angela Ahrendts and actress and Fabletics founder Kate Hudson.

Established 18 years ago, the Most Powerful Women Summit gathers prominent women in business, arts, government, education and philanthropy for a series of panels and networking events.

Hill is a Brandeis professor who teaches courses on gender, race, social policy and legal history. In 1991, she testified in front of the Senate about alleged sexual harassment by her former boss, then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

Though Thomas was ultimately confirmed, the hearings were viewed by tens of millions at the dawn of the 24-hour news cycle and sparked a national conversation about the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace.

The Most Powerful Women Summit begins Monday, Oct. 17. To view the full lineup of featured speakers, click here.

Photo by Tim Pierce from Berlin, MA, USA (Charles Ogletree and Anita Hill (267/365)) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons