Beth Judy
Host and ProducerBeth Judy is the author of Bold Women in Montana History and a limited audio series based on the book. She previously hosted and produced The Plant Detective, a locally produced and nationally syndicated program. Judy was also a producer of In Other Words, a late-night hour of programming from women's perspectives.
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Jessie Wilber created impeccable, innovative block prints, silkscreens, and collages. Students followed in their footsteps, especially women with families, glad to learn that great art could come from anything. -
At exhibits, ceramicist Frances Senska kept her artist’s statement simple: “I make pots.” -
Harriette Eliza Cushman helped create a wholesale cooperative, garnering Montanans the best prices in the nation for turkeys and eggs. Harriette’s work mattered especially during hard times and especially for women -
Dr. Chantanelle Nava searches the galaxy for exoplanets, rocky planets like ours that could host life. She uses the colors and movements of light as clues to find and measure planets. -
“Our language, we want to see it move with our children, with our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren. To be a vehicle for all the ways that we have lived all these millennia,” Janine Pease says. -
Influenced by her supportive parents, who welcomed everyone, and the social transformations of the Sixties, Diane Sands at a young age began challenging deep-set prejudices around her regarding gender and race -
Rose Gordon was born in White Sulphur Springs in 1883 to former slave Mary Goodall and African-Scottish cook John Gordon. When she died, community leaders carried her coffin and the newspaper celebrated the impact and courage. -
Getting electricity to rural areas was a difficult feat in the 1930s. Anna Boe Dahl took up the challenge and in turn eased some of the burdens women faced. -
In the late 1900's Butte had tremendous need for more medical doctors. Caroline McGill, witnessing this, decided to become a medical doctor. For 40 years, she treated everything from knifings and venereal disease to the most common thing, mining accidents. -
Around 1892, two new entities serendipitously collided. One was Fort Shaw Indian School west of Great Falls. The other was the sport of basketball.
