For Casandra Rauser, 2004–05 American Fellow, life is all about the adventure. In 1996, after her second year at a small liberal arts college in Minnesota, she went on a class trip to Costa Rica to study sustainable ecotourism. At the end of the trip, she waved goodbye to her classmates instead of the country. [...]
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Meet Casandra Rauser: Research Development Officer and Biologist
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged American Fellow, Casandra Rauser, Costa Rica, enviromental education, Fellowship, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, University of California on August 14, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Empowering Girls through Music
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged Black Cat, D.C., DJ, Girls Rock!, Got the Cool, Vinyl, women DJs on August 14, 2009, | 1 Comment »
I had to look at the advertisement twice to believe it: a ladies-only intro to DJing workshop at one of my favorite local concert spots? I love music and dancing, but I have been intimidated by the DJ community. Ebony Dumas, one of the event organizers, assured workshop attendees that while many women are hesitant [...]
Setting the Record Straight: Update
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Bonner & Associates, coal industry, congress, forged letters to Congress, hawthorn group, In the News, lobbyist, news on August 14, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW has received many notes thanking us for taking a strong stand against the recent congressional letter fraud involving us. We appreciate those of you who have written in and commented on AAUW Dialog about the blatantly forged letters that were sent to at least one member of the House of Representatives in AAUW’s name. [...]
The Power of Learning
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women's Health, tagged Child Marriage, education, leadership, National Child Labor project, Rekha Kalindi, UNICEF on August 11, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Like many 11-year-old girls born and raised in India who are just approaching puberty, Rekha Kalindi was about to be married. Her parents believed, as they had shown with her sister, that she was the right age to be married off and have children of her own. Instead of having this doomed fate imposed upon [...]
Drive Time Radio and Mammy
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged African American, black history, culture, education, stereotypes, women faculty, women's history on August 10, 2009, | 7 Comments »
Drive time radio can be annoying, informative, shocking, and sometimes just plain stupid. My usual 10-minute commute to the Metro has been extended this summer to 30 minutes as I have the honor of morning camp drop-off for my son and daughter. I admit to being a serial station changer. Having controls on the steering [...]
Meet Dianne Braden: High School Journalism and Technology Teacher
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt Teaching Fellow, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, media, STEM, teaching, technology on August 7, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It has been a year since I left teaching, and hearing the story of retired high school teacher Dianne Braden brought tears to my eyes. In the classroom I was inspired when students grasped the language of Shakespeare or wrote a research paper using proper internal citations. These days I am inspired by learning and [...]
Real Grassroots or Astroturf? Setting the Record Straight
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Bonner & Associates, coal industry, congress, forged letters to Congress, hawthorn group, In the News, lobbyist, news on August 7, 2009, | 6 Comments »
I have a great job, working for an amazing group with a worthwhile mission — AAUW. But these past few days, I’ve been unnecessarily distracted from that critical work as I responded to the blatant fraud perpetrated against this esteemed, 128-year-old charitable membership organization. It seems that Bonner & Associates, a grassroots lobbying firm hired [...]
Straight Up Now Tell Me…
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged American Idol, Paula Abdul, pay equity on August 6, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Ok, I admit to being an American Idol watcher, especially when the countdown reaches the top ten. I tend to agree with Simon Cowell and pretty much have ignored Paula and even Randy since they seem to give the same comments year after year. And the new judge, Kara DioGuardi — I groaned when she [...]
AAUW Sets the Record Straight
Posted in The AAUW Community on August 6, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW Executive Director Linda D. Hallman, CAE, issued the following statement: AAUW has been victimized by an act of blatant fraud. We have been informed, and confirmed with our Virginia affiliate, that an agent of Bonner & Associates – through its work with the Hawthorn Group and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity – [...]
A Supreme Court Justice Worth Rallying Around
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court on August 6, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: The Senate today confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as an associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read AAUW’s statement about the Senate’s confirmation of Judge Sotomayor. This afternoon, when Judge Sonia Sotomayor becomes the third women ever confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, history will have been made. Of course, given her legal background [...]
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