First Ladies First of Nevada BK 11.20.14

Join us in recognizing the roles and lives of Nevada Women during Nevada’s 150th anniversary of statehood. CLICK HERE TO GET INVOLVED.

Latest event update: Now on Display

The Nevada Women’s Legacy Project Exhibit as part of the Nevada Women’s history portrayed through photos, quotations and artistic renderings starting today through October 30, 2014 on the second floor adjacent to the City Council Chambers inside Las Vegas City Hall located at 495 S. Main Street. You can access the Nevada Women's Legacy exhibit during the week, Monday through Thursday from 7:00 am – 5:30 pm.
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Events will be held to introduce these women and share their stories in local communities throughout the year culminating in two October gala events in the Las Vegas Valley and the Reno/Sparks/Carson City area. Archival multimedia recordings will be important products of this Nevada Women's Legacy – 150 Years of Excellence project by providing long-lasting global visibility through the internet and a published Nevada Women's Legacy book.

Latest video update:
Currently we have all three parts available below of the First Ladies First event, take a moment to listen and decide… YES, I want to be involved with this exciting project!

First Ladies First in three parts

Women of Diversity Productions, in collaboration with other non-profit organizations throughout Nevada invite you to participate in this historical project. Click to go to our Facebook page or twitter and join to receive the latest updates on events, interviews and other happenings of this project.

Our mission is to give visibility to women & create a woman-appreciated future. Join us in this project to collect and permanently display and store oral histories, video interviews and other ways of knowing Nevada women and their contributions to making “Nevada Proud, Nevada Battle Born”. By means of our outreach program we are developing partnerships with women in the cities, towns and rural communities in all Nevada counties. We are encouraging and facilitating a comprehensive collection of womenʼs history through voices and faces of living women.

Primarily the internet site will be: womenofdiversity.org with sharing on: www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ and www.nevadawomen.org Contact Marlene at adrianmjlv@gmail.com or 702.655.2146 or click the contact/donate/volunteer button above.

Thank you for visiting the Nevada Women’s Legacy website and come back to see the latest interviews and information on how women helped shape Nevada history and will continue to into the future.