Dr. Emily Krichbaum is a historian of American women and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, where she studied modern American social movements. Her dissertation, which received the Jane and Cecil Lyman Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation and was recently featured by the Smithsonian podcast Sidedoor, explores the intersection of feminism, ageism, and advocacy through the lives of Maggie Kuhn and Tish Sommers.

Dr. Krichbaum spent the first ten years of her academic career teaching American History and American Women’s History at the undergraduate and graduate-level, leading professional development on primary-source centered classrooms across the nation, and establishing intergenerational female mentoring and leadership programming for female students and faculty. She is the recipient of several university-wide teaching and mentoring awards.

In 2018, Krichbaum founded Remember The Ladies, an initiative to incorporate more women’s history in American history classrooms. Through speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, and day-long intensives, Krichbaum equips teachers and school districts to provide more representative and inclusive histories. (Because, you can't be what you don't see). Since its inception, Krichbaum has worked with 50+ school districts around the country.

Currently, Krichbaum serves as the founding Director of the Center for Girls’ and Young Women’s Leadership at Columbus School for Girls where she develops leadership programming and original curriculum to ensure the next generation of female leaders can lead themselves and others. She also lectures at the John Glenn School of Public Policy at The Ohio State University. And, facilitates leadership training for emerging female leaders.

Krichbaum’s research, ideas, and stories have appeared on NPR, the TED stage, the Smithsonian, the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools podcast and annual conferences, the University of Notre Dame press, as well as her blog, Short Stories, Long Distance.

She looks forward to her morning runs, the Sunday paper, and the day women comprise (at least) 50% of the legislature. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and beloved canine running partner in Columbus, Ohio.