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First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) Announces Allida Black, Ph.D., as the 2024 Lewis L. Gould Award Recipient

First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE) Announces Allida Black, Ph.D., as the 2024 Lewis L. Gould Award Recipient

Allida Black, Ph.D., today received the 2024 Lewis L. Gould Award. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute of the University of Oxford, Special Adviser and Historian to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Managing Director of the Allenswood Group, LLC, a collaborative she founded to strengthen democracy through education and civic engagement and to preserve women’s political history.

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On This Day: FLARE Asserts the Importance of Studying Presidential First Ladies

On This Day: FLARE Asserts the Importance of Studying Presidential First Ladies

Association celebrates its third year in shaping a network of experts and researchers around first ladies history.

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FLARE's First National Conference

FLARE's First National Conference

FLARE's first national conference "First Lady Betty Ford: 50th Anniversary Celebration" co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, American University School of Public Affairs, and the National Archives was preceded by an inspiring luncheon hosted by Susan Ford Bales featuring First Lady Jill Biden as the keynote speaker on the Bidens' Women's Health Initiative. FLARE co-sponsored the luncheon with the Foundation and American University's School of Public Affairs.

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FLARE Members in the News

Rebecca Boggs Roberts

Diana B. Carlin

Anita B. McBride

Lisa McCubbin Hill

Elizabeth J. Natalle

Barbara Perry

Nancy Kegan Smith

Molly Meijer Wertheimer


Previously Featured FLARE Members

Rebecca Boggs Roberts

FLARE 2023 Election Results

January 2024 FLARE Members in the News

Catherine Allgor

Myra G. Gutin, Ph.D.

Dr. Tammy R. Vigil