Firsthand history

Women's movement leader and Cornell alumna Sonia Pressman Fuentes '50 speaks to students in Professor Jennie Farley's Writing in Industrial and Labor Relations: Minorities in America class April 12. Fuentes, who discussed her memoir, Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter, also was a guest speaker in Farley's Women and Work class. The first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a founder of the National Organization for Women, Fuentes was an adviser on some of the ground-breaking legislation that opened the doors for women in academia, athletics and the workplace. Mathew Fondeur/University Photography