We at Denmark Historical Society and Denmark Congregational Church are pleased to welcome Anne B. Gass to Centennial Hall Sunday, January 17th at 2 PM where she will give a presentation on her research about women’s suffrage efforts.
Anne B. Gass is Florence Brooks Whitehouse’s great-granddaughter. She is the author of Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, published in 2014. Her article, “Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Vote to Ratify Women’s Suffrage in 1919,” appeared in the Maine History Journal in 2012. Gass lectures regularly on Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine suffrage history at conferences, historical societies, libraries, and other events.
In her professional life, Gass has continued her great-grandmother’s activist tradition. She is the founder and principal of ABG Consulting, a small business devoted to supporting nonprofits, local and state governments, and foundations in their efforts to help people in need build stable, productive lives. Her clients create affordable housing and provide services that help people who are low income, homeless, are refugees, have mental illness, or incarcerated.
Working both in Maine and nationally Gass has written over $150 million in successful federal grants since founding her business in 1993. She has also completed numerous other special projects. Gass received her BA degree from Reed College in 1982 and a MA from the University of Maryland in 1987.
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