What’s in a name?

Our name was chosen in honor of Margaret Brent, founding mother of Maryland.

In a time when women were largely sidelined by society, she owned land, advised the governor, and stood up in the state assembly to demand ‘vote and voyce’. Some consider her the first feminist North America.

Her land grant—the first made to a women in the state of Maryland—was shared with her sister Mary and known as Sisters’ Freehold.

We stand on the shoulders of Margaret and all of the powerful women who came before us.