Book Talk | Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America’s Most Radical Revolutionary
Thursday, October 29, 2026 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET | Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street NW, 36th St NW, Washington, DC 20007 | Georgetown University Main Campus | RSVP (Registration Required)
Hosted by the Georgetown University Gender+ Justice Initiative, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, LGBTQ Resource Center, Protestant Life, the Culture and Politics Program and the American Studies Program.
Join us for a book talk featuring author Nina Sankovitch about her latest book, Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America’s Most Radical Revolutionary. This talk will be moderated by Rev. Ebony Grisom, Director of Protestant Life at Georgetown University. See more information below about the author and book.
About the book:
A thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, Not Your Founding Father reconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been.
Early in the morning of October 10, 1776—in the small farming community of Cumberland, Rhode Island, in a house surrounded by cherry trees—twenty-three-year-old Jemima Wilkinson died, and the Public Universal Friend was born.
Read more about the book here.
About the Author:
Nina Sankovitch is the acclaimed author of the memoir Tolstoy and the Purple Chair and several works of popular history, including Not Your Founding Father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Vogue.