Ellen Swallow Richards

Ellen Swallow Richards

by  on October 24, 2013 
Ellen Swallow Richards…one of the founders of family and consumer sciences as we know it today.
https://youtu.be/7cHvu6sEUH

*Originally posted on the Career Skillet website (Permission granted by Jill Bowers).

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