Better Days 2020 Welcomes Katherine Kitterman as New Historical Director
May 16 2018 - 12:05PM
Business Wire
Nonprofit hires U.S. historian and expert
researcher to support completion of flagship K-12 education
curriculum and other complementary campaign initiatives and
projects.
Better Days 2020, a campaign dedicated to popularizing Utah
women’s history in creative and communal ways, today announced it
has hired Katherine Kitterman as Historical Director; she will
start on May 21. Currently a doctoral candidate in American History
at the American University in Washington, D.C., Kitterman is
uniquely qualified to help research and share Utah women’s history
in creative ways. Most recently, Kitterman was a research assistant
at Leavitt Partners and adjunct professor for the Church History
and Doctrine Department at Brigham Young University.
“Better Days 2020 is thrilled to welcome Katherine to our team
as Historical Director,” said Better Days 2020 CEO Neylan McBaine.
“With her subject matter expertise in Utah women’s history from her
dissertation at American University and her experience at the
Smithsonian Institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum and other historical destinations, we feel like Katherine
will be an exceptional resource as we highlight the unique and
diverse stories of historical Utah women and their leadership. She
is clearly a historian who can synthesize all of the details of
names, dates and places, and bring them to life and make them
applicable to a mainstream audience.”
The Better Days 2020 campaign is comprised of strategic
educational, legislative and creative initiatives, including the
development of a Utah women’s history curriculum for 4th, 5th, 7th
and 11th grades; a historic downtown suffrage experience and
walking tour of significant suffragist sites; and management
efforts with Utah’s federal delegation to pass a bipartisan
resolution giving Salt Lake City, Utah, its rightful claim as a
major player in the suffrage movement; among other key
projects.
About Better Days 2020
Better Days 2020 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to
popularizing Utah women’s history. The year 2020 commemorates
women’s history in Utah, celebrating the Utah Territory women’s
first vote in 1870, as well as the 100th anniversary of the 19th
Amendment, which granted all U.S. women the right to vote.
Recently, Better Days 2020 was named 2018 Best of State winner in
the Education/Advocacy Organization category. To learn more and/or
support, visit www.betterdays2020.org.
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