
Deanna here, wishing you a happy International Women’s Day! This photo has always cracked me up, ever since I started working with Hightower almost 20 years ago. It’s obviously him in the middle, but who are these women sitting around the table? Turns out, they’re the leadership of the infamous revolution that was the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) in the 1980s.
I sat down with Hightower to discuss how it came about that so many women were executives and directors in the department during a time, and in a place, that likely wasn’t exactly a hotbed of feminist activism.
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