“Indeed, being in the first class of women at Yale College taught me a key lesson that has informed every stage of my career ever since: paradigms exist to be challenged.”
Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Shelley Fisher Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies at Stanford University. One of the First Women who entered Yale in 1969, she represented her class—1971—as a narrator for the Commemorative Program held at Yale on Saturday, September 21, 2019.