This work matters. Women are half of humanity; they should be half the content in curriculum. It’s basic math.
Kelsie Brook Eckert (she/her) is an award-winning history teacher and co-founder of the Remedial Herstory Project. She taught high school social studies for the better part of a decade and is now the Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University and the State Coordinator for National History Day in New Hampshire.
She was the 2020 Gilder Lehrman NH Teacher of the year and 2019 Nominee, a 2016 Normandy Scholar, the 2015 NH National History Day Teacher of the Year, and serves on the Board of Directors for the NH Council for Social Studies (NHCSS).
She earned a Masters in Social Studies Education and was the recipient of several academic awards including Graduate Assistant of the Year, and later Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award.
She is an avid triathlete and former varsity athlete.
Eckert is the author of Teaching Women’s History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Curricula (London: Routledge, 2024). She and co-founder Brooke Sullivan presented their TEDx Talk: It Has to Be Half.