Ellyn Uram Kaschak
As a woman, Ellyn Uram Kaschak had to fight her way to a PhD when there weren’t many
programs open to women — or male faculty who were willing to teach courses on feminism.
Kaschak provided a seven-figure gift to Binghamton University to establish the Ellyn
Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls to continue her fight
for equality for females.
The institute supports research in different fields, both new and ongoing projects
that contribute to Kaschak’s activist vision of a direct, positive impact on the lives
of women and girls. It will create an evidence base for practice to be looked at in
a scholarly way, bringing the rigor of scholarship to what are the best practices
and what works, while providing a feedback loop between practice and scholarship.
For more on Kaschak, see BingUNews and her 2017 TEDx talk, “Seeing Is Believing or Is Believing Seeing?”
