The Robbins Hunter Museum will present the eighth in its planned series of nine round table discussions based on the platforms and interests of Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) on 21 January 2021 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Although best known today as the first woman to run for the Presidency, Woodhull was far more. Among many other things, she and her sister Tennessee Claflin were the first women stockbrokers on Wall Street, taking on the bulls and bears at a time when a woman could not hold accounts in her own name. Even the check Tennessee was given as the initial deposit in Woodhull Claflin & Co., written by Cornelius Vanderbilt, had to be deposited by a man who knew them both.
On January 21st, the Museum will host George Robb, Claudia Sahm, and Stephanie Imhoff who will discuss the difficulties and successes of women who choose to enter the financial world, be it banking, the stock market, the economic sector, and business. We hope the discussion will delve deeper into this continuing disparity and inspire continued discussion.
The discussion will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. on the 21st of January via Zoom. Reservations may be made at www.robbinshunter.org, $10 for non-members, $5 for members. The Zoom information will be forwarded to all participants upon payment. For further information contact the museum at info@robbinshunter.org or 740-587-0430.
Speakers
George Robb is a professor of history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and has been awarded research grants from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His most recent book is Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression (2017). He is currently president of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.
Claudia Sahm is the founder of Stay-at-Home Macro (SAHM) Consulting. She is a regular opinion writer at Bloomberg and The New York Times. She has policy and research expertise on consumer spending, fiscal stimulus, and the financial well-being of households. She is the author of the "Sahm Rule," a reliable early signal of recessions that she developed as a way to automatically trigger stimulus payments to individuals in a recession. Previously, she was a section chief in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, where she oversaw the Survey of Household Economics and Decision making. Before that she worked for ten years in the Division of Research and Statistics on the staff’s macroeconomic forecast. She was a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in 2015-2016. Sahm holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan (2007), and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science, and German from Denison University (1998)
Stephanie Imhoff has over 35 years of executive financial, operational and strategic leadership expertise. She has significant experience in strategic, financial and business planning, cash management, bank refinancing/ restructuring and financial reporting and analysis. Stephanie, a certified public accountant, is a 1982 cum laude graduate of Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. She began her career with Ernst & Young in 1982, working primarily with privately held, entrepreneurial companies. She spent over 10 years with the firm before joining the Longaberger Company as its CFO in 1992. She served as a senior member of Longaberger’s executive team and was instrumental in the development and execution of its strategic and financial growth plans, including the execution of several private debt placements and debt restructurings. Stephanie left Longaberger in 2009. Over the past 10 years, Stephanie has provided consulting services to privately held, entrepreneurial companies in Central Ohio helping them primarily in the areas of Finance and Accounting.