The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women & Politics at Iowa State University is currently developing two archives of women's political communication - (1) a virtual (web-based) archive of women's political speech and (2) a videotape collection of women political candidates' campaign commercials.

The Archive of Women's Political Communication is made possible through a generous gift from Richard and Mary Jo Stanley of Muscatine, IA.

Michaelle Jean

Michaëlle Jean was born in Port au Prince, Haiti. As a young child in 1968, she and her family left her country and sought refuge in Canada.  She received a Bachelor of Arts in Italian and Hispanic languages and literature, and continued her studies towards a Master of Arts in comparative literature at the University of Montreal. From 1984 to 1986, she taught at the Faculty of Italian Studies at the same university. During the 1980s, she pursued linguistic and literary studies at the University of Perouse, the University of Florence and the Catholic University of Milan, al …   More