About Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway was an Australian-American scholar and author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain, she also was Smith College's first woman president (1975–1985) and most recently served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project. She was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Ker Conway was also the first female Chairman of Lendlease. In 1975, Ker Conway became the first female president of Smith College, the largest women's college in the United States. Ker Conway started writing her first memoir after leaving Smith College, during her period at MIT. Conway took a keen interest in fundraising and under her presidency the endowment nearly tripled from $82 million to $222 million.
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