Given all the headlines today, “fun” has not been in the vocabulary of many when discussing events having huge potential impact. Between now and the November 4 election, we will continue to be inundated with all kinds of political confetti — prepared speeches, voicemails from “your” candidate sounding like they actually called and left a [...]
Archive for September, 2008
The First Debate
Posted in Voter Education, tagged debate, Election, McCain, Obama, vote on September 29, 2008, | 1 Comment »
Who do you think “won”? That’s always the question after any presidential debate, especially since the historic Nixon vs. JFK debate made such a lasting impression coming into homes with what was then the unrealized power of television. Nowadays it’s not the power of television that is unknown; it’s the question of attracting a large [...]
Project Profiles: Latina Fashionista
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women & Economic Security, tagged college and career opportunities, Community Action Grants, fashion, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, fga, Following the Fellows, graduation, grants, Grants & Awards, High School, Latina, project profiles, Research and Grants on September 26, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
The first grant Roseanna Garcia, 2007–08 Community Action Grantee, ever wrote was to AAUW for her project Latina Fashionista, aimed at helping Latina youth understand college and career opportunities for minority women interested in the fashion industry. She told me she couldn’t believe it when she received the large acceptance envelope in the mail. The [...]
The Face of Pay Equity
Posted in Equity in the News, Women & Economic Security, tagged fair pay, Fair Pay Act, Lilly Ledbetter, pay discrimination, pay equity, wages on September 25, 2008, | 2 Comments »
By Paige Schultz, AAUW Fellow Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to meet the original face of pay equity, Lilly Ledbetter. As many of you know, Ledbetter is the brave woman who has been fighting against wage discrimination for a decade now. After working at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company for 20 years, Ledbetter [...]
What Would You Ask the Candidates?
Posted in Voter Education, tagged 2008 election, Action Network, Congressional Voting Record, debates, politics, presidential debates, voter ed, Voter Education, voter guide on September 24, 2008, | 8 Comments »
The first presidential debate is scheduled for this Friday, starting at 9:00 p.m. EST. Watching the presidential and vice presidential debates in the coming weeks is a great way to learn more about the candidates and their stances on issues that are important to women and their families. This week, AAUW sent an alert to [...]
Update on Jane Chen and Embrace
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Embrace Global, Fellowships, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, healthcare, incubator, Selected Professions Fellow on September 19, 2008, | 2 Comments »
On August 29, we posted a profile of Jane Chen, a 2007–08 Selected Professions Fellow. Just this past week we received an e-mail from Jane with exciting news about her start-up nonprofit, Embrace, which will offer low-cost incubators to hospitals and NGOs in India. Jane and her team of Stanford, Harvard, and Kellogg engineers, MBAs, [...]
Meet Shibani Rao, Legal Counsel
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Fellowships, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, international fellowships, Research and Grants, Shibani Rao on September 19, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
I got an e-mail from Shibani Rao my first week at AAUW. Shibani was looking for ways to connect with former fellows, and I was happy to announce that so was I! A 2003–04 International Fellow, Shibani sees education as “an essential tool that enables the broadening of one’s thinking capability and capacity.” After graduating [...]
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