text:  In 2019, Aoife was commissioned to write music to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, the one that gave women the right to vote. It was a request that seemed a little overwhelming at first. Coming up, Aoife talks about her decision to focus on a suffragist named Carrie Chapman Catt and how imagining the world through Catt's eyes helped her find a personal connection to history. Aoife also talks about how reaching back to the past has influenced the way she thinks about the future and her own daughter's life.