Lecture: Women Who Step Up, Not Aside

Name: Lecture: Women Who Step Up, Not Aside
Start: 2026-02-19T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-19T20:30:00-08:00
Location: Kennewick Branch - Mid-Columbia Libraries

Schedule

Thu Feb 19 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Kennewick Branch - Mid-Columbia Libraries | Kennewick, WA

In this event—part music performance and part talk—acoustic music trio Trillium-239 shares songs and stories of trail-breaking women like Marie Curie, Harriet Tubman, Malala Yousafzai, Annie Oakley, and others. What drove them to step out of their expected roles to forge more difficult paths, knowing they’d face many challenges and barriers? What can we learn from them?
With their voices, hands, pens, and guns, they persisted—and we’ll examine the lives and motivations of these fascinating women and celebrate them in song.
Trillium-239 is an acoustic music trio. Michelle Cameron, a nuclear chemist who works at a power plant, plays cello; Janet Humphrey, a cyber engineer, plays guitar; and Mary Hartman, a retired environmental scientist, plays guitar and banjo. Mary and Janet also write some of the trio’s songs. They live in Richland and Sequim.
This lecture is sponsored by Humanities Washington, Jim and Doris Kelly, Three Rivers Folklife Society, Columbia Basin College, PNNL, Franklin County Historical Society, Richland Public Library, and Benton County Museum.