Heroes of Money: The Value of Iconic Women in Our Pockets with Raffi Andonian – G25120102
The U.S. Mint has released new quarters now completing the American Women Quarters™ program, running 2022-2025 as the first circulating quarter program that exclusively honors women. These select women are now on the same platform as George Washington, engraving their place in American historical memory. Now we have their inspiring stories (including a native New Mexican) accessible on the money in our pockets – money is where nations honor their heroes.
We will learn and reflect while at the ranch and take day trips to sites in Taos and Santa Fe to experience specific places where remarkable local women made an impact – including Nina Otero-Warren, one of the iconic women featured on these quarters, demonstrating New Mexico’s link to this historic series. With time to learn, reflect, and explore both on-property and off-site, you will walk away from this workshop with depth and appreciation about the value of these iconic women in your pocket as the newest heroes of money.
Instructor
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Raffi AndonianRaffi Andonian is TV’s “Celebrity Historian” with almost 200 guest appearances on ABC-CBS-FOX-NBC stations across the country. He is a professor at Harris Stowe State University, an HBCU in St. Louis, and he is the author of 3 history books, including Creating Space for Conflicted Histories: Remembering the Atomic Bomb, an Amazon best-seller. Raffi is producer and host of an AppleTV show, Clio The Muse, which encourages viewers to “challenge the present by inquiring the past.” He has spoken at Oxford, Cambridge, NASDAQ, humanities councils, historical societies, and universities across the country. Raffi began his career at the Gettysburg battlefield, Richmond Civil War sites, the Martin Luther King childhood home, and Los Alamos NM where the atomic bomb was created. Today, he leads “Beyond the Postcard” historical tours and he serves as President of the St. George Tucker Society, interdisciplinary academic association for study of the U.S. South.