Theatre in the Round - Trailblazing Women - March 2024
University of Minnesota Student Coffman Gallery Ann Bancroft (1955-Present) was born in Mendota Heights MN, and has obtained a series of arctic exploring accolades. She was the first woman to cross both polar ice caps to reach the North and South Poles. Bancroft led a four-woman expedition to the South Pole on skis; this expedition was the first all-female expedition to cross the ice to the South Pole. Bancroft and Norwegian adventurer Liv Arnesen became the first women to ski across Antarctica. Bancroft and Arnesen took part in a trek across the Arctic Ocean to draw attention to the problem of global warming. Bancroft is openly bisexual and in 2006, she publicly campaigned against a proposed amendment to the Minnesota Constitution to prohibit any legal recognition of marriages or civilian unions between members of the same sex.
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