Two contests were held at Expo '96 for Women's Empowerment: "Visualizing a Feminist Future," a student architecture contest; and a nonprofit exhibit booth contest.
Visualizing the Feminist Future winners were: First Place - Janna Beth Vaughn, for a community of self-sufficient circular houses that celebrate the cycles of the season; Second Place - Candace Vanderhoff for "A Poet's Chamber"; and Third Place - Shalini Agrawal, Melissa Neel, Loree Sandler, and Cindy Sherwyn, for "An Alternative Future for the Jane Addams House." The judges were Kathryn Tyler Prigmore, Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Howard University; Deborah Dietsch, editor-in-chief of Architecture Magazine; and the Feminist Majority Foundation staff.
The nonprofit booth contest winners were: First Place - The Empower Program, which held live self-defense demonstrations throughout Expo '96; Second Place - Teen Voices Magazine, featuring collages of the future of feminism created by teens; and Third Place - Wider Opportunities for Women, which allowed Expo '96 participants to use power tools to build a five-foot-tall wooden "pyramid" of empowerment. The judges were: sociologist Ronnie Steinberg; high school student Erica Spahn Mena; mystery writer Sandra Scoppettone; college student Nicole Latimer; and all Expo '96 participants, who were invited to vote on the booths that best exemplified a feminist future in their issue area.
Congratulations to the winners, and a special thank-you to the judges!
