Hello again!
I was back to the grind this week. I met up with Kathryn several times at various Women Owned and Women Operated Businesses (WOWOB) so that we could ask for more interviews for our upcoming newsletter and for Kathryn's rapidly forming business.
The first time we met on Sunday, we actually carpooled together to an AZ NOW meeting at the Fare Trade Cafe at ASU. The meeting, which took a little over an hour, covered various topics regarding the day-to-day operations of the organization. The most interesting part of the meeting (for me, at least) was when Councilwoman Kate Gallego came in to talk with us about joining local government. It was honestly inspiring to see someone attempting to make changes at the grassroots level, despite of all the personal and professional hurdles people in government face.
She also did NOW a huge favor. April 4th is rapidly approaching- for those of you who don't know, April 4th is the Pay Gap Day, by which I mean, on average, a woman has to work until April 4th of a second year to earn all that a white, cis man makes in one year- and Gallego graciously got us a spot on City Hall that morning for a press conference and to protest. Several people will be making speeches, including the interim president of NOW, Kate Gallego, and your girl (!), so if you can, please join us! We will also be heading out to our local representatives' offices to give them cakes (that have slices cut out to represent how much women are missing), so if you can't come downtown, please let me know and I can drive you to the nearest representative!
Anyways, the rest of the week flew by, as Kathryn and I attempted to collect data on WOWOBs, drank a lot of coffee at said WOWOBS, and continued our research on local elections happening this year. The most tedious job I had to was collect information on all of the women running in the general election last year, so that we could compare the data to both the year before and this year. Hopefully all of this data collection will help the members of NOW further visualize the problems we are facing in local representation, and what we can do to combat it.
That's it for NOW! (I can't believe I haven't made that pun yet).
See you next time!
I was back to the grind this week. I met up with Kathryn several times at various Women Owned and Women Operated Businesses (WOWOB) so that we could ask for more interviews for our upcoming newsletter and for Kathryn's rapidly forming business.
The first time we met on Sunday, we actually carpooled together to an AZ NOW meeting at the Fare Trade Cafe at ASU. The meeting, which took a little over an hour, covered various topics regarding the day-to-day operations of the organization. The most interesting part of the meeting (for me, at least) was when Councilwoman Kate Gallego came in to talk with us about joining local government. It was honestly inspiring to see someone attempting to make changes at the grassroots level, despite of all the personal and professional hurdles people in government face.
She also did NOW a huge favor. April 4th is rapidly approaching- for those of you who don't know, April 4th is the Pay Gap Day, by which I mean, on average, a woman has to work until April 4th of a second year to earn all that a white, cis man makes in one year- and Gallego graciously got us a spot on City Hall that morning for a press conference and to protest. Several people will be making speeches, including the interim president of NOW, Kate Gallego, and your girl (!), so if you can, please join us! We will also be heading out to our local representatives' offices to give them cakes (that have slices cut out to represent how much women are missing), so if you can't come downtown, please let me know and I can drive you to the nearest representative!
Anyways, the rest of the week flew by, as Kathryn and I attempted to collect data on WOWOBs, drank a lot of coffee at said WOWOBS, and continued our research on local elections happening this year. The most tedious job I had to was collect information on all of the women running in the general election last year, so that we could compare the data to both the year before and this year. Hopefully all of this data collection will help the members of NOW further visualize the problems we are facing in local representation, and what we can do to combat it.
That's it for NOW! (I can't believe I haven't made that pun yet).
See you next time!
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