Q& A: Robin Riley on the Significance of Having a Female Presidential Nominee

No matter whether you plan on voting for her, Hillary Clinton has accomplished something that no woman before her has. She has become the presumptive presidential nominee of one of the two major U.S. political parties. Robin Riley, assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of LGBT studies, does research on how constructions of gender, race, class and sexuality work to perpetuate oppressive and destructive processes. She answered some questions about what Clinton’s accomplishment means. Read more at SU News.