RB Speaker June 2026 About Frances Perkins: FDR’s Labor Secretary and Champion of the New Deal.”

Presented by Meagan Albrant, Teacher at San Diego College of Continuing Education since 2018. She holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in American History, and says she “loves to tell the often overlooked stories of history; the people and events that shaped the country but have been lost to time and textbook constraints.” One of those overlooked stories is undoubtedly Frances Perkins, the first woman ever to serve in a president’s cabinet and an important force in the New Deal’s fight to rescue America from the Great Depression.