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Meet A 'Shrewd Businesswoman' & Other Female Entrepreneurs Whose Stories Have Previously Gone Untold

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Business News, News, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.86 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Dr. Liz Harmon, the Digital Curator at the American Smithsonian Women's History Museum, joins Brittany Lewis on “Forbes Talks” to discuss how the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum is finding stories of female entrepreneurs that were previously lost to history. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody I'm

0:03.7

I'm Brittany Lewis a reporter here at Forbes

0:06.0

joining me now is Dr. Liz Harmon.

0:08.0

Dr. Harmon thank you so much for joining me.

0:11.3

Thank you for having me.

0:12.1

I'm so excited to be here. I'm so excited to be here.

0:13.0

I'm so excited for this conversation.

0:15.0

It comes in perfect time in March, Women's Month,

0:18.0

and you are the digital curator at the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, long title, impressive title first before we dive in.

0:27.0

Tell us exactly what you do.

0:29.9

Yes, so I am part of a small and mighty team to share women's history and create a national museum in Washington, D.C.

0:38.8

But really work for the next 10 years until we open our doors to share more women's history online and innovative ways.

0:45.3

So the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum has a digital exhibition that just launched

0:50.5

where your team is sharing women's stories that have been previously lost to history.

0:55.0

First, can you explain the project just a little bit?

0:58.0

Yeah, absolutely.

1:00.0

So, Becoming Visible is our first digital exhibition at the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.

1:04.7

And really, you know, it confronts a central paradox in women's history, the significance

1:10.0

and absence of women in American history.

1:12.6

So by that I mean, we know women have been making history

1:15.3

for centuries, but their stories are still missing

1:18.1

from popular narratives of US history.

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