AAUW Hastings 2025 Program Schedule

January 27, 2025
6:00 pm Chili Supper
7:00 pm Meeting followed by Title IX and NCAA Sports
Guest Speaker – Vicki Davis. Vicki is well-known and respected in the area of Women’s Collegiate Sports. Over the past 50 years, she has been a trailblazer, participant, organizer, coach, official, advocate, and observer/evaluator of officials. She will discuss “Title IX and Women’s Collegiate Basketball” and the changes to women’s sports since 1972.

February 24, 2025  7:00 pm
Astronomy is for Everyone. Our presenter for the February 24, 2025 meeting is Alexandra Greenbaum. Alexandra will describe what it means to be an astronomer and what an astronomy career looks like. She will discuss her journey into the field and highlight efforts to make the field more accessible to more people. Alexandra will share some anecdotes of her experience and challenges.Alexandra grew up in Bronx, NY where you can pick out Orion’s belt in the night sky, and not much else. She was a big fan of the planetarium show at the American Museum of Natural History and a collector of newspaper and magazine clippings of the colorful nebulae and galaxies imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. In college, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Alexandra studied Mechanical Engineering and Physics and went on to get her PhD in Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins she focused on an optical imaging technique on ground- and space-based telescopes for studying planetary systems. Alexandra was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, where she continued her work in high resolution and high contrast imaging of stars and planets. She also helped develop department-wide efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Later she joined the technical staff at Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA where she worked on projects related to guidance and navigation. Currently Alexandra is a staff scientist at the California Institute of Technology supporting the next big NASA Astrophysics mission: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 

March 24, 2025  7:00 pm
The State of Dakota County
Kathryn Keena

April 28, 2025
Spring Social
Kim Allgor

May 19, 2025 7:00 pm
Immigrant Integration System
Pat Branstad
Book Sale before and after the meeting

All meetings are held at St. Phillip’s Lutheran Church, 1401 W. 15th Street, Hastings, MN 55033 unless otherwise noted.

Visitors are welcome. If you are interested in visiting, please contact us via the “contact us” tab on this website. We’d love for you to join us!

Summer 2025 Events

Coming Soon 

Be sure to check back as all summer events will be posted here once plans are finalized.