Women's History Month a time to mark strides
By Kelvin Childs
Howard University proudly celebrates Women’s History Month, recognizing the way women have advanced and changed culture and society.
One of the biggest change-makers this past year was former Vice President Kamala Harris (’86, B.A.). She made a momentous run for the presidency, and convened her concluding campaign rally on The Yard, where she told the rapt audience, “Let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant billion of stars. The light, the light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service.”
And Howard women are taking up the challenge, with its sports teams having record-breaking success.
At the 2025 Northeast Conference (NEC) Swimming and Diving Championships, Howard’s women’s swimming and diving team not only won the 200-medley relay race on the first day of the event, but they also hit a meet record of 1:40.41, breaking the old record set in 2016. They also set a new program record with gold medals in the 200 Back and the 100 Free.
Our women’s soccer team made history, winning its first NEC regular season championship and its first NEC Tournament Championship, and went to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth consecutive year. The women’s track and field team won its fourth consecutive Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Indoor Championship title.
There are several events on campus befitting the Women’s History Month theme.
On March 19, the University hosts the 3rd Annual Dr. Bernadine Mays Lacey Symposium on Health Equity, an academic research event featuring a one-day symposium hosted in partnership with NYU Rory Meyers School of Nursing.
Black women and women business leaders are represented in MeccaTech 2025, March 20–22, hosted by the Center for Digital Business at the School of Business. During MeccaTech, on March 21, Anita Elberse, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, will offer a master class in entertainment, media and sports. The master class is through the Chris Paul Family Foundation.
Also during MeccaTech on March 21, there will be a conversation about the consumer experience in sport, between CEO and luxury accessory designer Maya Winston and Renee Montgomery, partner and vice president of the WNBA team Atlanta Dream.
And the Center for Digital Business is bringing back Tech Titans Talk for its second year. Tech Titans Talk is a conversation between Black chief information officers and undergraduate, graduate and PhD students, and faculty, about developments in technology and how they are changing the future and the job market.