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Empowering Women in Politics

MIRS' Samantha Shriber and Maggie George discuss their top stories from this month's Republican and Democratic state nominating conventions, where party members determined the candidates for multiple statewide races (1:17).  Kicking off interviews today was Founder Erin Vilardi and State Director Cee Maul of Vote Run Lead, an organization dedicated to expanding woman representation across state legislators. They discuss Michigan's battleground races and the recent Democratic National Convention in Chicago (18:53).  MIRS interviewed Detroit City Mayor Mike Duggan while he was at the DNC, asking about another mayor's comment that he would make a good governor (39:34).  Additionally, the team meets Paul Hudson, a Grand Rapids area Republican running against U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten in West Michigan (52:47). 

In this episode, we interview Karen Schoellkopf, the founder and CEO of Leap Fund, who dives into the critical issue of the benefits cliff—a policy flaw where a slight increase in income results in a disproportionate loss of public benefits, leaving many worse off. Karen has worked on projects for Samsung, Target, Verizon, Meetup, Spotify, the American Medical Association, and more, and led Product at VoteRunLead (which trains women to run for office). She launched Hire More Women In Tech in 2014 (making the business case for women in leadership positions in tech).  Karen explains the benefit cliff phenomenon and discusses its significant impact on working Americans, emphasizing the lack of awareness and preparation for those affected. Our discussion underscores the urgency of addressing this policy failure and the importance of fostering empathy to better support families striving for financial stability. Links: Learn more about Leap Fund. Learn more about Samaritan. Learn more about benefits cliffs. Follow More Than Profit on Twitter and LinkedIn!

Women are 51 percent of the U.S. population, but only 33 percent of state legislators across the country are women, and the way things are, it could take more than 200 years to reach parity. That's where the organization Vote Run Lead comes in. Its goal is to close that gap, and so has launched an initiative called “Charting a Path to Women's Majority,” to help achieve that.Vote Run Lead offers training and even financial help for female candidates for local and state offices, and even U.S. Congress, who support progressive initiatives like fighting restrictions on abortion and contraception and other liberal causes.The organization's chief political officer, is our guest on the Lean to the Left podcast."It's the fact that when you line up the actual population of this country and pretend that the elected representatives we have are actually fully representing those folks. It feels like a joke, right? How can you say that in a state like ... South Carolina, less than 20 percent women [are] speaking on behalf of policies that impact a population that is 51 percent women, is somehow reflective and representative. It just means that, the policymaking and the decision making in government is not actually taking into account the lived experiences and the needs and the values of the full population adequately," Shulman says.She points out that in Southeastern states that have the fewest women in political, policymaking positions "it is a pocket of some of the most restrictive laws related to women's health care, abortion access, contraceptive access. There's an absolute correlation there of who's making the laws and who those policies are actually serving or not serving."Vote Run Lead provides both on-line and in-person training for female candidates and campaign management personnel, helping them with every aspect of campaigning for public office, according to Shulman."We are a training institute," she explains. "We recruit, we support women once they're running. We are really focusing in on one of our key initiatives is called Run/51. And that has become our largest focus. It is the initiative that is aimed at women's majorities in state legislatures specifically. We're still the political home for any values-aligned woman who is interested in running, but Run/51 is really where we are putting most of our resources to recruit women to run specifically for state legislatures, giving them the training and the confidence and the tools to run a successful campaign and to be with them throughout their political journey."For more info about Vote Run Lead, Run/51, and the many services provided by the organization, please check out this episode of the Lean to the Left podcast, "Calling Female Candidates."Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support.

Women are 51 percent of the U.S. population, but only 33 percent of state legislators across the country are women, and the way things are, it could take more than 200 years to reach parity. That's where the organization Vote Run Lead comes in. Its goal is to close that gap, and so has launched an initiative called “Charting a Path to Women's Majority,” to help achieve that.Vote Run Lead offers training and even financial help for female candidates for local and state offices, and even U.S. Congress, who support progressive initiatives like fighting restrictions on abortion and contraception and other liberal causes.The organization's chief political officer, is our guest on the Lean to the Left podcast."It's the fact that when you line up the actual population of this country and pretend that the elected representatives we have are actually fully representing those folks. It feels like a joke, right? How can you say that in a state like ... South Carolina, less than 20 percent women [are] speaking on behalf of policies that impact a population that is 51 percent women, is somehow reflective and representative. It just means that, the policymaking and the decision making in government is not actually taking into account the lived experiences and the needs and the values of the full population adequately," Shulman says.She points out that in Southeastern states that have the fewest women in political, policymaking positions "it is a pocket of some of the most restrictive laws related to women's health care, abortion access, contraceptive access. There's an absolute correlation there of who's making the laws and who those policies are actually serving or not serving."Vote Run Lead provides both on-line and in-person training for female candidates and campaign management personnel, helping them with every aspect of campaigning for public office, according to Shulman."We are a training institute," she explains. "We recruit, we support women once they're running. We are really focusing in on one of our key initiatives is called Run/51. And that has become our largest focus. It is the initiative that is aimed at women's majorities in state legislatures specifically. We're still the political home for any values-aligned woman who is interested in running, but Run/51 is really where we are putting most of our resources to recruit women to run specifically for state legislatures, giving them the training and the confidence and the tools to run a successful campaign and to be with them throughout their political journey."For more info about Vote Run Lead, Run/51, and the many services provided by the organization, please check out this episode of the Lean to the Left podcast, "Calling Female Candidates."Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support.

From the 35th District in New Mexico State Representative, and State Director of the organization Vote, Run, Lead, Action Angelica Rubio joins TJ. She discusses what the organization does, which prioritizes electing more women to become state legislators. All this and more on News Radio KKOBSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Women make up a slight majority of our population - but in general, make up nowhere near that percentage of our elected leaders. Vote Run Lead Action hopes to change that through training, support resources and more. I caught up with their Founder and CEO, Erin Vilardi as well as their Michigan Director, Christine Maul at the Renaissance Center during their Run/51 Summit over the weekend. Website: https://voterunlead.org/  Feedback as always - dailydetroit - at - gmail - dot - com or 313-789-3211 Follow us on Apple Podcasts: https://lnk.to/dailydetroitonapple  Or Spotify: https://lnk.to/dailydetroitonspotify  Thanks to our members: http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  Or those who do a one-time contribution: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/dailydetroit  

On this episode of Hey, We Should Connect, special guest, Nekpen Osuan Wilson shares her experience as CEO of WomenWerk, an NYC-based nonprofit, and how her passion for women's empowerment propelled her to become a certified executive coach.Nekpen provides valuable advice for navigating disruption and getting to a place of clarity. Connect with Nekpen on LinkedIn and on Instagram @nekpenwerks @WomenwerksConnect with Funmi on Instagram @upswingwomenGuest BioNekpen Osuan Wilson is the Head of Customer Experience Strategy at Gusto (valued in January 2022 at $10Billion) and a certified executive coach with a decade of experience in business development strategy, mentorship, and non-profit board service. As a UN Global Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goal 5 and CEO of the NYC-based nonprofit @WomenWerk, Nekpen leverages her passion for women's empowerment to advise leaders on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Nekpen serves as a talent and career strategy coach for The Muse, WIN Summit and an Advisor with 81Cents, leveraging her expertise in professional development training, career placement, and workplace culture. Her work with WomenWerk has led to brand ambassador roles with The Council of Urban Professionals, Walkers Legacy Foundation, and Forbes Women's Council.Nekpen was recently named a 2021 Vital Voices Fellow, a 2019 NYC Five Borough Future Fellow by The Arena, a BlogHer 2018 Voice of the Year, the 2017 Baylor University Young Alumna of the Year, a 2018 92Y Woman in Power Fellow, a 2018 Walkers Legacy Women in Leadership Honoree, and a 2017 Council of Urban Professionals Fellow. Nekpen serves on the DNC's Young Professionals Committee and Women's Leadership Forum and volunteers on professional non-profits including Vote Run Lead, The Council of Urban Professionals, The New Leaders Council, and the famed Apollo Theatre.Nekpen enjoys public speaking and her most notable speaking engagements have been at The White House, Harvard University, SXSW, The Wharton Business School, Columbia University, The United States Military Academy at West Point, The Female Quotient, and UNA Women. Nekpen earned her Bachelors from Baylor University and her Masters from Columbia University. She is a mother, STEM inclusion advocate, and enjoys running, traveling and supporting non-profits in her spare time.Connect with Funmi on Instagram @upswingwomen

Join us on an inspiring episode of Real Time with WLP! In this captivating discussion, Dr. Joan Fallon, visionary scientist as well as the Founder & CEO of biopharmaceutical company Curemark, sits down with Dorothy Czylyski, Partner & President at No Fixed Address Health (NFA Health), to unveil her life's mission of championing the health and wellbeing of children worldwide. Discover how Dr. Joan Fallon fearlessly embarked on an extraordinary path of leadership and sheds light on the transformative impact she's making by challenging the status quo. Prepare to be inspired by her passion for changing lives through reimagining innovation. ABOUT DR. JOAN FALLON Joan holds over 300 patents worldwide, has written numerous scholarly articles, and lectured extensively across the globe on pediatric developmental problems. A former Assistant Professor at Yeshiva University in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. She holds appointments as a Senior Advisor to the Henry Crown Fellows at The Aspen Institute, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin & Marshall College and The Pratt Institute. She currently serves as a board member at the DREAM Charter School in Harlem, the PitCCh In Foundation started by CC and Amber Sabathia, Springboard Enterprises an internationally known venture catalyst that supports women–led growth companies and Vote Run Lead a bipartisan not-for-profit that encourages women on both sides of the aisle to run for elected office.  She served on the ADA Board of Advisors for the building of the new Yankee Stadium and has testified before Congress on the matters of business and patents.  Joan is the recipient of numerous awards including being named one of the top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020 by Goldman Sachs, 2017 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year NY in Healthcare and received the Creative Entrepreneurship Award from The New York Hall of Science in 2018. Joan also recently published her first book, Goodbye, Status Quo: Reimagining the Landscape of Innovation in January 2022. Now as a respected business leader, doctor, and academic, Joan is driven to share what she has learned and the perspectives that brought her success.

Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Stephannie Lane Baker, the Executive Director of Emerge Arkansas, to talk about her work recruiting and training women candidates for office.  For more info about Emerge America and Emerge Arkansas   Stephannie Lane Baker has over two decades of experience in political advocacy and organizing work. Highlights of this work include studying the child health impact of estrogens in the Miami table water, fighting for smoke-free environments for restaurant workers, registering voters and serving as a patient advocate at Planned Parenthood, and advocating for safer gun laws with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Her varied public health advocacy work eventually led her to political campaigns, as she realized that the best way to make progress is to help progressive leaders get a seat at the table. Stephannie honed her political training with Vote Run Lead, Demand a Seat, the Arena Academy, EMILY's List, and the inaugural Emerge Arkansas bootcamp training. She's spent the last several years working in campaigns and volunteering for school board, city council, and state representative races. Most recently, she has directed campaign communications at both the federal and state level. Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse   Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt   Daniel Deitrich is a singer-songwriter, former-pastor-turned-activist, and producer of The Common Good Podcast. @danieldeitrich Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic   votecommongood.com votecommongood.com/podcast facebook.com/votecommongood twitter.com/votecommon

Dr. Joan Fallon, Founder and CEO of Curemark, is a visionary scientist who has dedicated her life's work to championing the health and wellbeing of children. Her recent book Goodbye, Status Quo, equips readers with the tools to be agents of change: as entrepreneurs, leaders, and individuals. The book, which blends her own entrepreneurial experiences and scientific observations to give readers informative and actionable advice, was inspired by Joan's personal fascination with change. Joan's never ending curiosity is why Curemark continues to pave the way to develop novel therapies to treat serious diseases for which there are limited treatment options. The pipeline includes a phase III clinical-stage research program for Autism, and programs focused on Parkinson's Disease, schizophrenia, and addiction.   Joan holds over 300 patents worldwide, has written numerous scholarly articles and lectured extensively across the globe on pediatric developmental problems. Currently she holds appointments as a Senior Advisor to the Henry Crown Fellows at The Aspen Institute, as well as a Distinguished Fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin & Marshall College, The Pratt Institute, the DREAM Charter School in Harlem, and Vote Run Lead, a bipartisan not-for-profit that encourages women on both sides of the aisle to run for elected office.   Joan was recently named one of the top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020 by Goldman Sachs. She has also been awarded 2017 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year New York in Healthcare and received the Creative Entrepreneurship Award from The New York Hall of Science in 2018. Read the show notes on Arcbound's Podcast Page: https://arcbound.com/podcasts/    Find Arcbound here: Homepage: Arcbound.com Services/Work with Us: https://arcbound.com/work-with-us/ About: https://arcbound.com/about/ Founders Corner: https://arcbound.com/category/founders-corner/ Connect: https://arcbound.com/connect/

On this week's episode of Summer's Vibes, we are speaking with Vote Run Lead NY State Director, Jacquelyn Richards. We are talking about how young people can get involved in their community, how they can run for office and how to be inspired to be the change you want to see. Jacquelyn Chyrell Richards is the New York State Director for Vote Run Lead. Jacquelyn has over fifteen years of extensive experience working in politics at both strategic and tactical levels and along the continuum from grassroots to statewide scales. Before joining Vote Run Lead, she worked for the New York State Assembly and was an advisor to the New York State Senate Democratic Conference Internship Program. At the same time, she was appointed by the City Council as the youngest sitting member of the City of Albany Commission on Human Rights. Her professional efforts have been recognized by Walker's Legacy, celebrating the contributions of women around the country with its inaugural Power50 List, She's A Boss, New York State Young Democrats, and the United State of Women Summit, hosted by the White House under the Obama Administration. Jacquelyn's mission in life is to create a pathway for more women and people of color to run for public office so that more diverse groups of leaders are in our representation across local, state, and federal government. If you are interested in how to get involved in your community or running for office, please visit VoteRunLead

Today's Reframed Brain episode engages the connection of mindset, clarity and manifesting your ideal life with guest Rebecca Thompson, Clarity Coach + Founder, Live In Your Light. If you would like to receive 5 Best Brain Health Tips and a playlist curated with you in mind, join the TRB community and subscribe: www.TheReframedBrain.com Please subscribe and like The Reframed Brain Podcast YouTube channel today! Rebecca Thompson is a Clarity Coach for high-achieving Black womxn and Founder of the Live In Your Light Bootcamp, a transformative 3-month personal and professional executive coaching experience for high-achieving Black womxn who want the clarity and confidence to transform their lives from the inside out. She has traveled the world training womxn, especially Black womxn, to run for elected office. Rebecca also works with numerous local, statewide, and national progressive organizations focusing on leadership development, electoral politics, and civic engagement. Rebecca got her start in politics at just 14 years old when she served as an intern for a womxn elected official in her hometown of Detroit. She has since served as a Vice President at Deliver Strategies, one of the leading progressive direct mail firms in the country, and as the RUN to WIN Director for EMILY's List, leading the largest candidate recruitment and training program in the organization's history. Rebecca is a graduate of the Women's Campaign School at Yale, EMILY'S List, VoteRunLead and numerous other leadership programs. She is on the faculty for the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and has been a trainer for ElectHer, New American Leaders, the Front Line Leaders Academy, and others. Rebecca has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Essence Magazine and was one of the American Association of Political Consultants' Top 40 Under 40 award recipients in 2018. She was inspired to create “Changing the Face of Power” – the first podcast in the country dedicated to inspiring black womxn to run for office – after losing her election for State Representative in Michigan by just 6 votes. She wants to teach Black womxn candidates everything she learned the hard way so they can run and win the first time. She resides in Baltimore, Maryland with her dog Donny Hathaway. Rebecca can be reached at: rebecca@rebeccamthompson.com You can connect with Rebecca Thompson here: IG: https://www.instagram.com/goliveinyourlight/ Website: http://www.rebeccamthompson.com/ If you or someone you know may be considering death by suicide, please, please call or text one of the numbers. You are loved and not alone. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 24/7 1–800–273–8255 National Institute of Mental Health Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor 24/7 National Institute of Mental Health WhatsApp: https://api.whatsapp.com/send/?phone=... Disclaimer: Erica Savage is not a medical practitioner, therapist, or counselor. This podcast is not a substitute for medical or mental health services. Erica's brain health expertise is centered in having sustained a traumatic brain injury in March 2021 and having to adapt a new life managing disabilities and chronic illness brought on by the brain injury. Erica's life is one involving active healing and advocacy for health disparities.

Takin' Care of Lady Business with Jennifer Justice Episode 038: Build Your Own Table: Making the System Work for Everyone Nathalie Molina Niño is Managing Director at Known Holdings. She is an investor (Builder Capitalist), author, educator and retired global tech entrepreneur. As part of her work as a champion of women, communities of color and the planet, she co-founded the trade organization for Builder Capitalism, a long-view, alternative asset class to Venture Capital. Today, Molina Niño serves as a Venture Partner at Connectivity Capital Partners, as an advisor for Goldman Sachs' Launch with GS Black and Latinx Cohort, WOCstar Fund, FullCycle, Accion Opportunity Fund, Vote Run Lead, WE NYC (Women Entrepreneurs NYC) and HOPE (Hispanas Organized for Political Equality). In support of her efforts to make reproductive healthcare more accessible and affordable, she serves on the board of the National Institute for Reproductive Health and The American Medical Association's Center for Health Equity. In 2019, she was honored with Schneps' inaugural Women of Wall Street Awards for her influence in banking and finance and was named among People Magazine's most powerful Latinas. Listen to this Takin' Care of Lady Business episode where Nathalie accounts for her success, outlines her goals for the future, and explains ways that she is fighting for a more equitable world. Here is what to expect on this week's show: Ways of bridging the wealth gap between multibillion dollar corporations run by white men and the female-founded and BIPOC-founded businesses that are succeeding in the small scale, but want to compete at a higher level Why people may be overestimating the amount of money and influence held by venture capital The critical importance of ensuring your entire team understands and believes your company's mission statement cohesively, and why simply having BIPOC people or women at the helm isn't enough Ways that Nathalie and other progressive financiers are fighting to turn birth control pills into an over-the-counter drug   Connect with Nathalie: BOOK: https://leapfroghacks.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NathalieMolinaNino/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NathalieMolina LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliemolina/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nathaliemolinanino/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Run51 is the brainchild of Erin Vilardi. She created the platform to assist women in gaining more of a voice in shaping national policies. Run 51's mission is to support women political candidates as a collective, paving the way for them to gain a majority in each of the 50 state legislatures.  As Erin explains in this week's Motivational Mondays, 51 percent of the US population is women. So, she feels they should hold 51 percent of government jobs, regardless of their backgrounds or demographics.  With a historic number of women now in Congress, they have the ability to shape change more than any other time in history. Organizations like Run51 are poised to empower women by providing materials to help them create effective change campaigns and win more elections. In this episode you'll learn how to file for a legislative seat, what a legislature actually does, and how to find the districts in which you are eligible to run for office.   LEARN MORE: >> Connect with Erin Vilardi on LinkedIn {https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-vilardi-b3764527} >> Visit VoteRunLead's website, Twitter, and Instagram {https://www.voterunlead.org} {https://twitter.com/VoteRunLead} {https://www.instagram.com/voterunlead} >> Learn about Erin's Campaign, Run51 {https://www.voterunlead.org/run_51}   NSLS MEMBERS ONLY: Listen to the bonus episode to learn about the historic rise of women in US Congress and the role men can play as allies to women in politics. {https://thens.ls/3IF8ZQy}

On this episode of Everywhere Radio, we talk with Starre Haas, an advocate for women's leadership and empowerment, mother, wife, and entrepreneur. We talk with Starre about her journey from accounting to women's empowerment and politics and what it has meant to build a new community and life with her family in Hope, Alaska. Formerly with VoteRunLead, Starre is the founder and CEO of Community Connections Now, a company that focuses on empowering women through networking and leadership development and of the nonprofit, The Everyday Bold Woman, formed to spotlight and provide leadership training and financial resources to women, particularly mothers and homemakers, women who have been suffering as a result of the pandemic. Everywhere Radio is a production of the Rural Assembly. Learn more at rural assembly.org/podcasts.

On the radio show this week, we cover the ways in which our democracy is under attack and how we can fight back; as well as the latest with the pandemic, childcare and schools closing, and legislation to lift us all (Did someone say Build Back Better Act?); and we also cover how we can elect the best candidates possible— or even run for office yourself.   *Special guests include: Jana Morgan, Declaration for American Democracy, @DFADCoalition; Melissa Boteach, National Women's Law Center, @NWLC; Barbara Arnwine, Transformative Justice Coalition, @TJC_DC; and Erin Vilardi, Vote Run Lead, @VoteRunLead

On the radio show this week, we cover the ways in which our democracy is under attack and how we can fight back; as well as the latest with the pandemic, childcare and schools closing, and legislation to lift us all (Did someone say Build Back Better Act?); and we also cover how we can elect the best candidates possible— or even run for office yourself. *Special guests include: Jana Morgan, Declaration for American Democracy, @DFADCoalition; Melissa Boteach, National Women's Law Center, @NWLC; Barbara Arnwine, Transformative Justice Coalition, @TJC_DC; and Erin Vilardi, Vote Run Lead, @VoteRunLead

We revisit a conversation with Erin Vilardi, CEO of Vote Run Lead - an organization that has helped over 36,000 women run for political office. Erin talks about how VRL encourages women to come as they are, using their existing skills to make them great politicians. Tune in for some inspiration on why it's so important to get involved and RUN!

Our guest this week is Erin Vilardi. Erin is the Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead, an organization dedicated to training and empowering women to run for office. Vote Run Lead recently launched Run 51, an initiative to help women run for state legislatures. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alyssa-milano-sorry-not-sorry/message

Erin Vilardi returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about Vote Run Lead and launching Run/51 where they are working to achieve female majorities in all 50 state legislatures.

In this two-part episode, Erin Vilardi, the Founder and CEO of the Vote Run Lead, discusses the organization's plans to elect women to the majority of state legislative seats by 2024, with their RUN/51 campaign. In Part 2 of this episode, Rhonda Briggins, Co-Founder, and Board Member of Vote Run Lead, discusses the unique barriers women face when they seek elected office, and how Vote Run Lead trains them to run successful campaigns, and to win. Vote Run Lead's Run/51 Project Listen to All Electorette Episodes https://www.electorette.com/podcast Support the Electorette Rate & Review on iTunes: https://apple.co/2GsfQj4 Support Electorette on Patreon for $2/month: http://bit.ly/Electorette-Patreon Also, if you enjoy the Electorette, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on iTunes. Also, please spread the word by telling your friends, family and colleagues about The Electorette! WANT MORE ELECTORETTE? Follow the Electorette on social media. Electorette Facebook Electorette Instagram Electorette Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every so often, it's really important to check-in with colleagues on the front lines of women's issues advocacy and women's political empowerment. One of those colleagues is Erin Vilardi, the estimable founder and CEO of VoteRunLead, a non-partisan organization that promotes women's political participation and leadership and trains women to run for political office. It has had astounding success—astounding because VRL has proven over and over again that women−when trained, encouraged, mentored, and sufficiently well-funded−can win office just as frequently as men do. Since we are now in the run-up to the 2022 Congressional elections(!), and there are numerous races around the country in 2021, Rebecca asked Erin to join us to discuss what to look for in trends, types of candidates, and regarding the issues and messages that win for women candidates. For more information about Erin's extensive background in this work, go to https://www.voterunlead.org/erin_vilardi.

In this episode, we're continuing our series on Mothers in Politics! As physicians, getting regular women and parents in office is important to us because so much legislation affects public health: not just in the time of a pandemic, but also via laws surrounding issues like parental leave, health insurance coverage, pre-existing conditions, and access to medical and specialty care. Have you wondered what makes people decide to run for office? And how on earth they do it? Do you think it can't be you? Listen to our discussion with Pakou Hang, Chief Program Officer of Vote Run Lead, to find out how it can. Pakou Hang holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Yale University and a master's degree in Political Science from the  University of Minnesota. She successfully ran the 2002 campaign of Mee Moua -- the very first Hmong American elected to a state legislature in America -- and thereafter served as the Deputy Political Director to Senator Paul Wellstone's 2002 re-election campaign. Pakou has also served as the Election Protection Director for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party and the National Field Director for the Children's Defense Fund. She co-founded and spent eight years as the Executive Director of the Hmong American Farmers Association, a nonprofit committed to building intergenerational and community wealth for Hmong farmers and their families. She is a recipient of the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award, the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the Bush Leadership Fellowship, and most recently, the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, which strives to bolster trans-Atlantic relations. She is a co-founder and Chief Program Officer for Vote Run Lead.Vote Run Lead is a national non-partisan organization that trains women to run for office and win, reaching over 36,000 women all across America. Vote Run Lead alumni are serving on city councils, county boards, state houses, supreme courts, and in Congress.

In conversation with Rhonda Briggins, Co-Founder and Board Member of Vote Run Lead, discussing the RUN 51 program that aims to achieve gender representation in the state legislatures in Georgia, Minnesota, and New York.

Follow the Host:IG:  www.instagram.com/michelebrundidgeFollow the Podcast:IG:  www.instagram.com/5after3More about our Special Guest:Rasheedah Thomas co-founded RC Communications, a DC-based strategic communications firm, in 2014. She advises a diverse group of clients on strategic communications, media relations, and branding strategies.Rasheedah is passionate about women in positions of power, and loves helping women business and government leaders define their brand and raise their profile. She is also a highly sought-after commentator for US and international media where she shares her expertise and analysis of US and international affairs,  women’s issues, and personal and corporate branding. Prior to co-founding RC Communications, Rasheedah worked in fundraising and donor relations at National Public Radio. For over a decade, she raised an average of $2-3M a year and created strategic stewardship plans for NPR’s corporate, foundation, and individual donors. She worked closely with NPR’s CEO and other executive management, as well as with major stations and Trustees of the NPR Foundation. As a board member of the Women’s Congressional Staff Foundation, Rasheedah works to not only increase staff diversity on the Hill, but create a pipeline to foster more diversity in Hill leadership positions. An advocate of more women in elected office, she is a Certified National Trainer for VoteRunLead. She is a member of Washington Women in Public Relations and was selected to join Politico’s Women Rule advisory group as one of its first members. Rasheedah was named to the 2020 list of Influential African American Women on LinkedIn. She is a proud native South Carolinian and alumna of Howard University.Connect with Rasheedah!IG/Twitter: @rasheedah_tLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasheedahthomas/Website: www.rccommsdc.com

Erin Vilardi is the Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead, the nation’s largest and most diverse training program for women to run for office and win. She first launched the program as Vice President of Program and Communications at The White House Project. She has also served as a Leadership Development Consultant for a range of clients, including Fortune 100 companies, global girls’ initiatives, and the U.S. Department of State, reaching women leaders in a dozen international cities. Vilardi is the co-author of the Athena CORE10©, an innovative set of leadership competencies for 21st century women leaders based on the latest research and gender analysis for the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. She has appeared on the main stage at Personal Democracy Forum, on CNN, BBC, and Fox News and her work was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, New York Magazine as well as numerous international and domestic articles on women and leadership. She is an Executive Producer of Ann Richards’ Texas, a documentary about the late pioneering governor. Useful Links: Vote Run Lead Kitchen Cabinet Series Upcoming Events You'll find them on social media @Voterunlead MJ Towler is the Black Wine Guy. Follow him on Instagram Or sign up for his newsletter to hear the latest on his podcast releases. Host: Megan Park Editor: Jennifer Howd Check us out: Putting Women In Their Place, Inc.

Heidi L. Sieck is Co-founder/Chief Empowerment Officer of #VOTEPROCHOICE a national political engagement platform connecting prochoice voters with prochoice champions in all elections. Heidi is an award winning civic entrepreneur serving as founding Chief Operating Officer of Civic Hall and Democracy.com in New York City and interim Chief Operating Officer of Rock the Vote. She led the project to build the San Francisco 311 Customer Service Center and first open data platform in the U.S. and has worked on six presidential campaigns and countless state and location races in nearly every campaign role. Her passion is to change the world by elevating women to positions of leadership. She serves on the Board of the National Institute for Reproductive Health (formerly NARAL New York) the advisory board of Vote Run Lead, CTZNWELL, Emerge NY, Groundshift and MarchOn sister march network. Heidi is a proud partner of the Women’s March on Washington and a member of the Policy Table responsible for writing the intersectional Unity Principles. Useful Links: #VOTEPROCHOICE voter guide The Lie The Binds by Ilyse Hogue & Ellie Langford Host: Megan Park Editor: Jennifer Howd Check us out: Putting Women In Their Place, Inc.

Erin Vilardi, founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead, discusses why we don't have parity in terms of women's representation in government, and what her organization is doing about it. We also discuss Erin's predictions for the 2020 election cycle, and whether we will see another wave of women winning their races. Follow & Support Vote Run Lead About Vote Run Lead Vote Run Lead Twitter Vote Run Lead Facebook Listen to All Episodes https://www.electorette.com/podcast Support the Electorette Rate & Review on iTunes: https://apple.co/2GsfQj4 Support Electorette on Patreon for $2/month: http://bit.ly/Electorette-Patreon Also, if you enjoy the Electorette, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on iTunes. Also, please spread the word by telling your friends, family and colleagues about The Electorette! Want to support the Electorette so that we can bring you more great episodes? You can help us produce more episodes with just $2/per month on Patreon. Every bit helps! Patreon.com/Electorette WANT MORE ELECTORETTE? Follow the Electorette on social media. Electorette Facebook Electorette Instagram Electorette Twitter The Electorette is a proud member of the DemCast Network! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More women are running for political office this year than ever before, but men still disproportionally represent the American populace.We talk with Erin Vilardi, the founder of VoteRunLead, an organization that encourages and trains women to run for office -- and win. Are YOU considering a run for office? Vilardi explains why women are well-suited for leadership and why you should take the plunge. 

In this "Reflections" episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes on women, gender, and democracy: Episode 103: Jenna Spinelle of the “Democracy Works” podcast on COVID-19, the media, and elections, Episode 105: Jen Senko on “The Brainwashing of My Dad” and right-wing media's impact on our democracy, Episode 107: Christina Hu on the importance of minority civic engagement to democracy, Episode 109: Erin Vilardi of “Vote Run Lead” on its work to train and elect more women to elected office, and Episode 110: Jordan Zaslow on “Women for the Win” and gender equality in government. During our conversation, Michael and I touched upon the following resources in our conversation: The myth of "voter fraud" and actual statistics Republican efforts to suppress voting rights Ivanka Trump's Goya endorsement, now under an ethics investigation Andrew Yang's campaign platforms as it related to diversity in representation Kamala Harris and Mindy Kaling bonding over dosa McConnell's proposal for five year corporate immunity Judge Ester Salas son's alleged murderer and his identity as an "anti-feminist" and male supremacist --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Erin Vilardi, the Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead, the nation's largest and most diverse training program for women to run for office and win. She first launched Vote Run Lead as Vice President of Program and Communications at The White House Project. We speak with Erin today about Vote Run Lead's work to help train female candidates to run and win, some of the barriers they face along the way, and how society benefits when we have more women in elected office and positions of power. During our conversation, Erin and I referenced the following resources and topics: The history of Vote Run Lead, and its founding by Marie Wilson, creator of "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" Jon Freeman Lab's research on how implicit bias impacts behavior How feminine traits impact perceptions and results for female candidates --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

In the final segment of our four-part series on rural poverty and the 2020 elections, developed in collaboration with and underwritten by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Michelle chats with Dee Davis, founder and president of the Center for Rural Strategies; Jonathan Rodden, professor of political science at Stanford University, and author of Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide; and Pakou Hang, a trainer at Vote Run Lead, about the upcoming elections.  People vote on the basis of whether they think a candidate truly represent people like themselves, notes Davis. They vote more on the basis of candidates they like and whose values they support, rather than on policy issues, he adds. Hang discusses the important role of women in agriculture today, who tend to be the largest landowners, and are more interested in rural health, nutrition, and the ecosystem. Women in agriculture and in rural communities are coming together in social networks and exerting a greater influence than in the past, she explains. According to Rodden, the racial injustice movement has affected rural areas, which have become more heterogeneous, as well as urban areas. The episode concludes with insights about the importance of immigrants who are moving to rural communities for jobs (the majority of dairy farm workers are now Latino, notes Hang); whether democracy itself is in jeopardy; and the role of voting by mail in the 2020 elections. This episode is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, www.rwjf.org

In this episode Althea and Amoy reunite with Vote Run Lead Founder & CEO Erin Vilardi and Mayor of Mt. Vernon New York Shawyn Patterson-Howard to talk about how Vote Run Lead impacted their lives.   

Only one woman, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, remains in the Democratic race for president. But that picture doesn’t tell the whole story. Across the country, more women are running for office than ever before. The 2018 election was widely hailed as the Year of the Woman, as women ran for office and voted in record numbers – many of them Democrats galvanized by the election of President Trump. “This is so much larger than a political reaction,” says Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily’s List. “[It’s] a cultural change. So many women are saying, ‘I need to serve, I have something to offer, I can do this.’ That’s not gonna go away when Trump’s out of office.” On Flyover 2020, we took a closer look at this new wave of women entering politics. What motivates them to get in the ring, knowing they will face discrimination and attacks? Guests: Dianne Bystrom, director emerita of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University. Erin Vilardi, founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead.

A political adviser and social entrepreneur based in Washington, DC, Rina has been nationally-recognized as a political insider and astute businesswoman. Prior to launching Rilax Strategies – a government and public affairs practice – she served as a senior staffer to two Republican Members of U.S. Congress. Her expertise includes speech-writing, building winning strategies for political campaigns at all levels of government, and serving as a government and public affairs consultant to a wide-range of domestic and international corporations, including start-up ventures. She is the creative force behind LoomUS, a civic renewal initiative launching in the summer of 2020. She is a Co-Founder of Women's Public Leadership Network and Catalyst PAC. She is a fervent advocate for electing and appointing more women to positions at all levels of U.S. government; as such, she is currently an Adviser to "VoteRunLead"and "Running Start" as well a Board of Directors member for "RepresentWomen" and "Republican Women for Progress." She offers analysis and commentary each week on MSNBC and Al Jazeera Media Network, and she is a senior panelist on PBS' "To The Contrary" news program -- the only all-women news Sunday show in the nation. Rina was elected as a Delegate from Washington, DC to the RNC 2016 Convention; however, due to anti-Trump remarks she made in the national media, her local party and the convention's credentials committee unjustly denied her access to be seated on the convention floor. Before an independent tribunal within the Republican National Committee ruled in her favor and subsequently reinstated her as a Delegate, Rina's controversial story was highlighted multiple times in publications ranging from Politico to The Washington Post. She most recently served as Chief Spokesperson and Strategic Adviser for 2016 Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin. Rina was a 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar and belongs to the American Enterprise Institute's Leadership Network as well as the Meridian International Center's Global Leadership Council. She is the proud daughter immigrants from Uganda and India, and is a native of West Virginia. Rina and her husband reside in the Washington, DC area with their daughters. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/liana-zavo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/liana-zavo/support

Only one woman, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, remains in the Democratic race for president. But that picture doesn’t tell the whole story. Across the country, more women are running for office than ever before. The 2018 election was widely hailed as the Year of the Woman, as women ran for office and voted in record numbers – many of them Democrats galvanized by the election of President Trump. “This is so much larger than a political reaction,” says Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily’s List. “[It’s] a cultural change. So many women are saying, ‘I need to serve, I have something to offer, I can do this.’ That’s not gonna go away when Trump’s out of office.” On Flyover 2020, we took a closer look at this new wave of women entering politics. What motivates them to get in the ring, knowing they will face discrimination and attacks? Guests: Dianne Bystrom, director emerita of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University. Erin Vilardi, founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead.

On the 27th episode of the #VoteHerIn series, a partnership project of Two Broads Talking Politics/Kelly Pollock and Rebecca Sive, author of *Vote Her In: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President*, you’ll hear an interview with Founder & CEO of Vote Run Lead, Erin Vilardi.

On the 27th episode of the #VoteHerIn series, a partnership project of Two Broads Talking Politics/Kelly Pollock and Rebecca Sive, author of *Vote Her In: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President*, you’ll hear an interview with Founder & CEO of Vote Run Lead, Erin Vilardi.

Kelly interviews Lindsey Boylan, who is running for Congress in the New York 10th Congressional District in 2020.

Kelly interviews Lindsey Boylan, who is running for Congress in the New York 10th Congressional District in 2020.

With the 2020 election looming closer than ever, Popaganda host Carmen Rios calls up four women leading the fight for gender parity in politics—A’shanti Gholar, from EMERGE America; Erin Vilardi, of VoteRunLead; Aimee Allison, founder of She The People; and Jennifer Mandelblatt, founder of PLATFORM—and political reporter and author Prachi Gupta to talk about the fierce feminist leadership of The Squad, and what it will take to help advance their mission to shake up the system.

On this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast with Naketa R. Thigpen, the reformed politician Rebecca Thompson breaks barriers and walls as she walks us through her imperfectly powerful transformation. Rebecca Thompson - At just 14 years old, Rebecca served as an intern for a county commissioner in her hometown of Detroit and that is where she caught the politics bug. Rebecca is a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale, EMILY’S List, VoteRunLead and numerous other leadership programs. She has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Essence Magazine, and was recently named one of the American Association of Political Consultants’ Top 40 Under 40 award recipients.Rebecca highlights how politicians are taught to be perfect which looks great when for her portfolio, public facing and public speaking optics but can do more harm than good when you don’t realize how much you’re struggling behind the walls you’ve built. Holding nothing back, Rebecca tears in to her past as a control freak in her career, intimate partner relationships, and friendships which kept her from showing up as her full self.More about Rebecca ThompsonRebecca Thompson is a Clarity + Confidence Coach and Founder of the Live In Your Light Bootcamp, an intensive + intimate 8-week personal development experience designed to help high achieving Black women get the clarity to discover what lights them up, the confidence to chase their wildest dreams, and take the action needed to create a life they love. She has traveled the world training women, especially women of color, to run for elected office. Rebecca also works with numerous local, statewide, and national progressive organizations focusing on electoral politics, civic engagement, and reflective democracyRebecca was inspired to create “Changing the Face of Power” – the first podcast in the country dedicated to inspiring black women to run for office. She also travels the world to spread the same message her podcast does. She wants to help candidates learn from her mistakes so they can run and win the first time.Contact RebeccaWWW.REBECCAMTHOMPSON.COM | REBECCA@REBECCAMTHOMPSON.COM | (202) 492-21Facebook: /LIVEINYOURLIGHT | Instagram: @GOLIVEINYOURLIGHTSubscribe, Share & Balance BoldlyOn the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa R. Thigpen talks with ambitious women in business (and a few brave men) from a wide array of industries about their pursuit of success, how they face business burnout and what work/life balance looks like for them. Not your conventional self-help podcast, Balance Boldly uncovers real solutions to real problems afflicting real people at home and in the workplace, daily.If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, iHeart Radio, or Google Play to subscribe to the show and leave your honest review. Be sure to check out our new weekly livestreams of #LetsTalkIntimacy @asknaketa on IG/YouTube/Facebook every Thursday at 11:30am EST. Connect with me, Naketa R. Thigpen @asknaketa on IG, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Now Go. Create Your Balance. Create Your Joy. But remember, do it, BOLDLY! Thank you for listening!

In the latest episode of “Organize Your Butterflies,” YWCA USA CEO Alejandra Y. Castillo sits down with Erin Vilardi, Founder and Director of VoteRunLead. In this episode, released in conjunction with VoteRunLead’s fifth anniversary celebration, they discuss the untapped potential of women and how VoteRunLead provides the tools and motivation for potential political candidates to step up and lead their communities. They also look ahead to 2020, discuss potential candidates and alumnae, and five ways that men too can support the movement. 

We go over the history of Labor Day and send out some appreciation to Labor Unions.  Then we discuss women, politics and power with Melanie Childers. Melanie Childers is a Master Certified Confidence and Leadership Coach, activist, yogi, writer, educator, and all around badass, with a M.Ed. in Learning Design and Development. She specializes in coaching progressive women activists and candidates by showing them how to build confidence, manage stress, handle criticism, and lead with integrity. She’s taught these concepts and more to VoteRunLead, Netroots Nation, RepGA, and PaveItBlue, and has appeared in Cosmo.com and Esquire.com. She's also a co-founder of TheUnderbelly.org, an online breast cancer magazine.  

“[We see] women stepping into leadership as their full authentic selves as opposed to -what women have been taught often in the past - try to be like the next best male candidate.”  Amanda O’Donnell is the Chief Operating Officer of VoteRunLead, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that trains women to run for office (and win). Before stepping into her current role, Amanda spent over a decade as a founding partner of Control Group, the company which had the winning bid on LinkNYC, transforming all pay phones in NYC into free WiFi kiosks. In this episode, Amanda discusses modes of disrupting male-dominated spaces by breaking down barriers and biases and creating pathways for female leadership at all levels; she also touches on the importance of truly valuing the unique female perspective and finding your authentic “why”.  Check out VoteRunLead’s 90-day challenge here: https://voterunlead.org/resources/download-the-90-day-challenge-deck/ Also, check out this link on how to brag better: https://www.brag-better.com/aboutbragbetter

Amanda O’Donnell is the Chief Operating Officer of VoteRunLead, a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that trains women to run for office (and win). Before stepping into her current role, Amanda spent over a decade as a founding partner of Control Group, the company which had the winning bid on LinkNYC, transforming all pay phones in NYC into free WiFi kiosks. In this episode, Amanda discusses modes of disrupting male-dominated spaces by breaking down barriers and biases and creating pathways for female leadership at all levels; she also touches on the importance of truly valuing the unique female perspective and finding your authentic “why”. Check out VoteRunLead’s 90-day challenge here: https://voterunlead.org/resources/download-the-90-day-challenge-deck/ Also, check out this link on how to brag better: https://www.brag-better.com/aboutbragbetter

This is a special episode of Uppity Women, wherein we will hear about the newly-formed Emerge Arkansas, which is officially kicking off June 1, 2019 at Trio's in Little Rock. We will also hear from women who attended VoteRunLead's campaign training in Fayetteville in May 2019. We had a great time! Ladies, run for office! #UppityWomenUnite --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uppitywomenar/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uppitywomenar/support

Record numbers of women in the USA, particularly young women are running for and winning elected political office.  An unprecedented number of women -- SIX -- are currently running for president, and there are now 127 women in the U.S. Congress -- 25 in the Senate and 102 in the House, nearly 25%.  Better, but nowhere close to equal representation for female citizens. And the numbers of Republican women in national office, meager as they have been, are getting worse.  VoteRunLead is a bi-partisan organization training thousands of women to master the political skills needed to run for office and run campaigns. We talk with VoteRunLead alums from both sides of the political aisle: Heather Barmore and Tina Barton. 

On the #RADIO show this week we cover winning fair pay in the states (and how you can make your state a winning state); along with #TrumpsTaxScam and how we can have better tax policy; and also discuss the most recent assault on healthcare and the ways you can fight back; and we close the show getting fired up about supporting women in politics!   *Special guests include : Maggie Humphreys, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Dana Bye, Tax March, @TaxMarch; Eva Stahl, Health Initiative at Community Catalyst, @HealthPolicyHub, Erin Vilardi, VoteRunLead, @VoteRunLead

Uppity Women is hosted by Stephanie Harris, founder of Women Lead Arkansas, a non-partisan nonprofit whose mission is to empower women and girls to engage in politics, policy, and leadership. This podcast is meant to showcase women (and men!) doing cool things; be a place for hard conversations we need to have before we can make progress (race, politics, feminism, etc.); bring people together to figure sh!t out and get stuff done; and generally thumb our noses at anyone who would tell us what we may or may not do as women. www.womenleadarkansas.org darylshawn.bandcamp.com/music Links: Canvassing while Black Wisconsin Oregon Kiah Morris, Vermont Georgia pink tax Menstrual products in school Wellesley College Higher Heights for America Clinton School of Public Service White House Project VoteRunLead --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uppitywomenar/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uppitywomenar/support

As the energy around 2020 grows, conversations about women’s political leadership are taking the lead. In The Thick's NY Women's Foundation fellow Nour Saudi reports from a panel organized by the Metro New York chapter of UN Women on what the future of politics looks like for women of color, and where New York City falls short. We also hear from Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke and Erin Vilardi, founder of VoteRunLead.ITT Staff Picks:At Capitol Hill, the freshman congresswomen are urging young girls to run for office, via Refinery29.The history of the women trailblazers in New York’s state government, from The New York Times.This Vox piece makes the case for why 2020 should be the year of women.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the record number of women elected into Congress, the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN, and Women's History Month, Carnegie Council partnered with UN Women of New York for a panel with U.S. Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal, and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic of New York's 25th District. Opening remarks from Mary Luke of UN Women of NY, moderated by Erin Vilardi of VoteRunLead.

To celebrate the record number of women elected into Congress, the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN, and Women's History Month, Carnegie Council partnered with UN Women of New York for a panel with U.S. Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal, and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic of New York's 25th District. Opening remarks from Mary Luke of UN Women of NY, moderated by Erin Vilardi of VoteRunLead.

Avec Kiyémis.Cette semaine, Clémentine Gallot et Kiyémis s’intéressent à l’histoire d’une revanche, et pas n’importe laquelle : celle des femmes américaines. Depuis janvier dernier, elles sont 177 femmes à siéger au Congrès américain. Parmi elles, 42 sont issues de minorités ethniques, et 3 de minorité LGBT+. De quoi se dire que finalement, Hillary Clinton n’a pas tout perdu…Mais même si aujourd’hui, il n’y a jamais eu autant de femmes en position de pouvoir aux Etats-Unis, cela suffira-t-il pour ébranler la gouvernance Trump ? Où en est-on en matière de parité aux Etats-Unis, mais aussi chez nous, en France ? Et puis, au fond, la politique a-t-elle un genre ?Références entendues dans l’épisode: Clémentine s'est faite tatouée par la tatoueuse Anna WandaLes féministes espagnoles qui s’étaient déjà illustrées dans les médias par leur immense marche des femmes, se mobilisent contre la coalition Centre-Droit qui arrive au pouvoir grâce au parti d’extrême droite, Vox. De nombreuses manifestations sont prévues à Séville, Madrid et Barcelone.L’abrogation de la loi sur la lutte contre les violences machistes en EspagneL’élection des adjoints et adjointes au maire de la ville de Sarcelles, dans le Val d’Oise, annulée à cause d’une “rupture d’égalité en faveur des femmes”En 1992, aux Etats-Unis, on parlait d’ores et déjà de “Year of the Woman”, “l’année de la femme”,en politique, en françaisL’affaire Anita Hill: professeure de politique sociale et de droit qui a révélé, lorsque le juge Clarence Thomas a été nommé à la Cour Suprême, que celui-ci lui avait fait des remarques à caractère sexuel lorsqu’il était son superviseurLa “Vague Rose” : mobilisation des femmes après la défaite d’Hilary Clinton et contre Donald Trump, multipliant les attaques sexistesRashida Tlaib et Ilhan Omar, les deux premières femmes musulmanes élues au CongrèsJeannette Rankin, la première femme élue au Congrès américain élue en 1917Donald Trump annule l’obligation de remboursement de la contraception par les employeursLa sociologue française Françoise Gaspard qui a étudié comment on construit la politique comme un domaine réservé et un exercice viril qui est fondé sur une sociabilité et une expression qui reste purement masculine. Ses entretiens dans l'émission A Voix Nue sur France Culture à écouter ici.EMILY's List : un comité d'action politique aux États-Unis qui a pour but l'aide à l'élection de femmes progressistes pro-choix.VoteRunLead: est une organisation à but non lucratif qui forme les femmes à se présenter aux élections aux États-UnisLe rapport “Girls just wanna not run” publié en 2013 qui évoquait le fossé de l’ambitionLa “falaise de verre” théorisée par des chercheurs anglais Michelle Ryan et Alexander Haslam qui explique qu’en période de crise, les hommes ont souvent tendance à refuser les postes à responsabilité et à les “refourguer” aux femmesLa politologue française Frédérique Matonti et son livre “Le genre présidentiel”, aux éditions La découverteQuelques noms de femmes politiques républicaines :Kellyanne Conway, conseillère de Donald TrumpSarah Huckabee Sanders est le 32ᵉ porte-parole de la Maison-Blanche, en fonction depuis le 21 juillet 2017Omarosa Manigault-Newman, participante des deux émissions de Donald Trump, The Apprentice et The Celebrity ApprenticeQuelques noms de femmes politiques démocrates :La femme politique américaine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, élue le 6 novembre 2018 représentante du 14ᵉ district de New York à la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis, devenant la plus jeune représentante jamais élue au Congrès américainMaxine Waters, démocrate et députée depuis les années 1990. Elle s’est opposée à la guerre en Irak et cela fait plusieurs mois qu’elle appelle à la démission du président, Donald TrumpNancy Pelosi, femme politique américaine membre du parti démocrate et cheffe de la Chambre Basse, et donc de la majorité démocrateLe “shutdown”: chute du gouvernement face à l’impossibilité de voter une loi sur le budgetElizabeth Warren, une femme politique et universitaire américaine. Elle est membre du Parti démocrate, elle siège au Sénat des États-Unis depuis le 3 janvier 2013Kirsten Gillibrand, femme politique américaine membre du Parti démocrate et sénatrice fédérale de l'État de New York depuis le 26 janvier 2009. Elle succède ainsi à Hillary Clinton, devenue secrétaire d'ÉtatKamala Harris, membre du Parti démocrate. Elle est procureure générale de Californie de 2011 à 2017 et sénatrice des États-Unis pour la Californie depuis 2017Le témoignage d’Hélène Guinhut, journaliste au sein du magazine Elle France présente au meeting à Oakland au cours duquel Kamala Harris s’est expriméeL’échange entre Kamala Harris et Brett KavanaughWomen’s March: La marche des femmes est un rassemblement politique ayant eu lieu le 21 janvier 2017 à Washington, D.C. pour promouvoir les droits des femmesL’historien Nicolas Martin-Breteau qui a expliqué dans Libération que le rôle de l’électorat féminin noir est devenu central depuis la première élection de Barack Obama en 2008Le discours et les études de certaines féministes noires dont Kimberlé Crenshaw qui a théorisé le concept de l'intersectionnalité qui rappelle la contribution de certaines femmes blanches au maintien de la suprématie blancheLes femmes politiques dans la pop culture :La série “Baron Noir” et notamment la deuxième saison avec le personnage joué par Anna Mouglalis qui devient présidenteLa série danoise “Borgen: une femme au pouvoir” qui suit une femme première ministreLa série satirique “Veep” dans laquelle l’actrice Julia Louis-Dreyfus joue une vice présidenteLa série de Shonda Rhimes, “Scandal” qui est l’une des premières séries où une femme noire tient le premier rôle dans une position de très grand pouvoirLa dernière saison d’“House of Cards” avec l’éviction de Kevin Spacey remplacé par Robin Wright, Claire Underwood dans la série qui devient présidenteLa rappeuse Cardi B s’est exprimée sur Instagram contre le shutdown qui privait des milliers de personnes de leurs paiesLes recommandations culturelles :Kiyémis : L’essai de science politique “Black French Women and the struggle for equality 1848-2016” de Félix Germain et Silyane Larcher aux éditions University of Nebraska PressClémentine : La pièce de théâtre “Speculum” jouée et écrite par Delphine Biard, Flore Grimaud et Caroline Sahuquet qui dénonce les violences obstétricales"Les règles... quelle aventure” de Mirion Malle et Elise Thiébault,Pour poser une question à la team Quoi de meuf : hello@quoidemeuf.netQuoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes, animée par Clémentine Gallot et Kiyémis. Réalisée par Aurore Meyer Mahieu, montée et mixée par Laurie Galligani, coordonnée par Laura Cuissard.

On this week’s 51%, a campaign and leadership program is training women to run as they are for political office; hear about the author who revolutionized children’s picture books; and writer Dr. Jeri Burns returns with another point of view. VoteRunLead trains women to run for office. And win. With more than 33,000 women trained to […]

With Election Day 2018 in the rearview mirror, what happens next? The results were historic. How do our newly elected officials channel that momentum as they enter the House? For women who won, the path ahead is pretty clear. For women who lost, it’s less so. And for the volunteers who stepped up to help on all these exciting campaigns, it’s perhaps the least clear of all the best ways to stay involved. This week, Host Jenny Kaplan seeks answers to all of the above. She finds many of them at VoteRunLead's Women & Power 2018 National Town Hall, where winners and losers from across the country -- and on both sides of the aisle -- share thoughts and stories. Experts talk about logistical next steps for candidates and how movements can keep volunteer momentum. VoteRunLead is a non-partisan organization that trains women to run for office. Learn more here: https://voterunlead.org/ Special thanks to VoteRunLead for allowing us to record the town hall, to Moran Audio for the tunes and to Ben Broer for audio editing expertise! www.wondermedianetwork.com

Emilie sits down with Erin Vilardi of VoteRunLead to review women’s big wins in the 2018 midterm elections. Related links: Subscribe to the Bossed Up email list 2019 Limited Edition Bossed Up LifeTracker Planner! Learn more about Erin’s work at VoteRunLead.org Ep 32: Handling Rejection with Emily Cain of Emily’s List Ep 34: Hear my interview with Lauren Underwood Ep 36: Hear my interview with Deb Haaland Bossed Up Bootcamp Got a career conundrum or boss move you want me to feature on the podcast? Call and leave me a voicemail NOW at 910-668-BOSS(2677).

In today's episode of On The Spot With Melinda Garvey, we sat down with the Board Chair & Founding Board Member of VoteRunLead (voterunlead.org), Jehmu Greene! With the largest and most diverse campaign and leadership program in the country, VoteRunLead seeks women who will build a campaign based on their own passion, ideas and values. VoteRunLean trains women to run for office and WIN! Jehmu is an award-winning media and advocacy strategist, evangelist for social good and recent candidate for Chair of the Democratic National Committee. She is also a Fox News political commentator, where she defends progressive values and policies. She previously served as president of WakaWaka, a global social enterprise focused on solar power, and president of Rock the Vote, amongst many other notable organizations. "There's a lot of negativity right now that is driving the narrative, driving the conversation, and driving... online conversations. But underneath that and, probably more important, is this enthusiasm from women who will not just get involved, but get involved from a leadership perspective." -- Jehmu Greene Looking for more inspiration, advice and direction? Subscribe to our daily email newsletter and podcast Four Minutes with On The Dot where we provide you with the tools and motivation you need to get out there and be the badass babe you were meant to be. https://signup.onthedotwoman.com/ Tune in next Thursday when we sit down with the co-founders of The 9to5 MisFits (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoILG-stcFSS01XKgDEb9lg) and Misfit Communications (https://www.misfitcommunications.com/), Pavi Dinamani and Nammy Sirur! We are focused on your success, so let us know what you think by chatting with us at @onthedotwoman on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We’d love to hear your voice! Special Guest: Jehmu Greene.

For this episode of #OnTheSpot, we sat down the collaboration consultant, Baily Hancock to discuss millennial women finding their place in the workplace and in their careers. As a Collaboration Consultant, fellow Podcaster and Workshop Instructor, Baily helps people collaborate with their community to achieve their goals; whether that's making a career change or growing their business through Baily Hancock HQ. (https://bailyhancock.com/) When Baily first began collaboration consulting, she launched her first course called "The Career Experiment," where she had only one person signed up for it. This failure propelled her to work harder the second time around, and her hard work paid off: she promoted her second online course, "The 1-Year Career" much more, and thus began her road to entrepreneurship. To learn more and to follow Baily, head over to bailyhancock.com (bailyhancock.com) and subscribe to her podcast The Baily Hancock (https://bailyhancock.com/thebailyhancockshow/) show available on iTunes and Google Play Music! Our key takeaways from our convo with Baily: Stay "approachable, adaptable, and flexible." "Women by nature are naturally collaborative. We have always since the dawn of time, had to work with each other to survive." -- Baily Hancock ICYMI: Make sure to check out Baily's On The Dot #WomanToWatch feature on our website OnTheDotWoman.com (https://onthedotwoman.com/woman/baily-hancock) and on our daily newsletter and podcast Four Minutes With On The Dot (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/four-minutes-with-on-the-dot/id1309880515?mt=2)! Looking for more inspiration, advice and direction? Subscribe to our daily email newsletter and podcast Four Minutes with On The Dot where we provide you with the tools and motivation you need to get out there and be the badass babe you were meant to be. https://signup.onthedotwoman.com/ Tune in next Thursday when we sit down with Board Chair of VoteRunLead (voterunlead.org)/Fox News Political Contributor, Jehmu Greene! We are focused on your success, so let us know what you think by chatting with us at @onthedotwoman on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We’d love to hear your voice!

Jehmu Greene, the only black woman candidate in the 2017 race for DNC chair and founding member of VoteRunLead, joins The Takeaway to discuss why she "ghosted" the Democratic Party and some of the steps it could take to repair the relationship between the party and black women.

We are back from Netroots Nation 2018 held in the Crescent City of New Orleans Louisiana! Today on the show, New York Attorney General Candidate, Zephyr Teachout on using the office as a tool to stop anti-trust and corruption. Shaunna Thomas from Ultraviolet on creating a cost for sexism in the work place. Sayu Bhojwani, from New American Leaders, on the importance of electing 1st and 2nd generation immigrants into government. Stephen Miles, Director of Win Without War, will discuss the struggle of getting the anti-war message in to the mainstream media. Mark Jablownowski will explain the extent you can be targeted online with political ads, using your voter files. David Neiwart will talk about his new book Alt- America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump We will also have interviews from Jehmu Greene from Vote Run Lead and Faith Winter who's hoping to turn the Colorado State Senate, blue, in one of the most important races coming up in November. And finally, the Connecticut Secretary of State, Denise Merrill will discuss voter suppression and why the Kobach Commission was a complete fraud.

As we go into the 2018 midterm election season, we’ve got a lot of unknowns to think about. What can we expect to change this time around? Will there be more political upsets, like we’ve seen during the Democratic primaries in New York with the ascendancy of first-timer Alexandria Ocasio Cortez? One thing’s for sure: this year, more women, especially women of color, are running for public office than have ever before. Today, I’ll talk to two people with unique insight into how this all happened and what we can look forward to in November. First, I talk to Erin Vilardi, the founder and CEO of VoteRunLead, an organization that trains women to run for office. Then I speak to Minnesota State Senator Patricia Torres Ray, who is seeking her party’s nomination for a Congressional seat in a few weeks, about why she’s running. SHOUT-OUTS Last November, Lillyanne Pham wrote an article for Bitch on women of color candidates to watch Curious about those Rutgers numbers? Here’s more data on women candidates than you can shake a stick at! Look up your state! Want even more numbers?? The Washington Post has a good review of survey data on women candidates and their favorability.

On this episode, we’re talking with Jehmu Greene, a Democratic strategist, Fox News contributor, Board Chair of Vote Run Lead, and former candidate for DNC Chair. Jehmu shares how she came about cultivating self-care habits while battling exhaustion on the road with Rock The Vote. For her, the decision to make space for things outside of work was life or death. We talk to Jehmu about her civic engagement with VoteRunLead, keeping her cool during heated discussions on Fox News, and taking charge of your media consumption. She also unpacks the “angry black woman” stereotype as a black woman in media. Although she’s not online very often, you can still find Jehmu on both Facebook and Twitter. As always, you can find this episode and much more on our Twitter and Instagram at @SelfCareSundays and on Facebook at @SelfCareSundaysPodcast. This episode can also be found on Spotify, GooglePlay and RadioPublic. The transcription for this episode is available here.

Listen to trailblazer, Erin Vilardi, as she talks elections, The White House Project and more with host Danny Tisdale, on The Danny Tisdale Show.Erin Vilardi is the founder  and   CEO   of  VoteRunLead, a  national   non-profit organization leveraging technology and training to accelerate the number of women in civic and political leadership. Erin first launched VoteRunLead as vice president of program and communications at  The White House Project, establishing the largest national political training program readying women for  public office and civic life,  training 15,000+   women.  She   has served   as  a  leadership development consultant for a range of clients, including the Yahoo! Business and Human Rights division and Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University in Harlem, where she developed the Athena CORE10© – an innovative set of leadership competencies for 21st century women leaders based on the latest research and gender analysis. She has also worked with a diverse range of clients including Fortune 100 companies, global girls' initiatives and the U.S. Department of State, reaching women leaders in a dozen international cities. Vilardi serves on the Advisory Boards of Girl Meets World, the New American Leaders Project, and Democracy.com and is on the Leadership Teams of Vision2020 and Political Parity. She is an executive producer of Ann Richards' Texas, a documentary about the late pioneering governor. VoteRunLead.orgSUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: www.youtube.com/harlemworldmagazine.comwww.facebook.com/harlemworldmagazine.comwww.harlemworldmagazine.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theharlemworldmagazinepodcast)

In Episode 119 of the “High Regard Show,” “Edibles With Erin,” we talk to Erin Sayer, a muralist and cannabis cook from Minnesota about the products she makes, her clientele, who are often older and suffer from ailments that include diabetes, MS and insomnia. She also discusses the benefits they experience, the broad pricing of marijuana across the U.S. and she even shares her favorite gummy recipe. "The POTSie" will be back next week!   If you know what's good for you, you'll start following studio manager Kona, aka @TheKonaPersona, on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Erin Sayer of Vote Run Lead: 11:38:00 “The POTSie” segment: NA For more information about Erin Sayer: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esayer/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erinsayer33 Check back for new “High Regard Show” shows every Monday on SoundCloud and iTunes (please be sure to follow and rate us)! You can also follow us right here on highregardshow.com and on these social media sites: Twitter Facebook Instagram Tumblr Google+ Pinterest You can also find hosts @TomRoarty and @NikkiMMascali on Twitter. Finally, if you would like to have your work, product, band or even your mom promoted on the show, drop us a note at highregardshow@gmail.com

In Episode 118 of the “High Regard Show,” “Vote Run Lead,” we talk to Erin Vilardi, founder and executive director of VoteRunLead, an organization that teaches women across the country how to run for office. Vote Run Lead is hosting "Women Run 2018" after the Women's March in NYC on Saturday, Jan. 20. Erin talks about the post-march event, how she became interested in politics back in the seventh grade and her hopes for women in politics in 2018. In "The POTSie," Tom talks about his current bout with two big symptoms of POTS, nausea and blurred vision, which have suddenly come out swinging. He discusses how using one of those newfangled weighted blankets that are all the rage helps with the former while the latter is taking a bit longer to clear up.   If you know what's good for you, you'll start following studio manager Kona, aka @TheKonaPersona, on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Erin Vilardi of Vote Run Lead: 10:46:00 “The POTSie” segment: 45:40:00 For more information about Vote Run Lead: Website: https://voterunlead.org "Women Run 2018" in NYC: https://voterunlead.org/event/women-run-2018-voterunleads-post-womens-march-event/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VoteRunLead Twitter: https://twitter.com/VoteRunLead LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/voterunlead Check back for new “High Regard Show” shows every Monday on SoundCloud and iTunes (please be sure to follow and rate us)! You can also follow us right here on highregardshow.com and on these social media sites: Twitter Facebook Instagram Tumblr Google+ Pinterest You can also find hosts @TomRoarty and @NikkiMMascali on Twitter. Finally, if you would like to have your work, product, band or even your mom promoted on the show, drop us a note at highregardshow@gmail.com

Election Day 2017 - In this episode of The Great Battlefield podcast Nathaniel Pearlman chats with people involved in the 2017 election about lessons learned and where we go from here. Guests include Catherine Vaughn, Flippable; Gaby Goldstein, Sister District; Will Robinson, New Media Firm; Sayu Bhojwani, New American Leaders; Stu Trevelyan, NGP VAN; Yoni Landau, Rapid Resist; Erin Vilardi, Vote Run Lead; Emma Brown, Wendy Gooditis for Delegate; Cortney Tunis, Pantsuit Nation; Alex Viskupic, Dante Tanner for Delegate; Heidi Sieck, #VOTEPROCHOICE; A'Shanti Gholar, Emerge America; Betsy Hoover, Higher Ground Labs; Sang Peruri, Voter Circle; Gerard Niemira, Groundgame; Michael Frias, Catalist; Alfred Johnson, Mobilize America.

Erin Vilardi joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working to empower women in politics and about Vote Run Lead which trains women to run for office.

Erin Vilardi calls herself as a "Feminist Patriot," and she's on a mission to rally more women to step up and run for public office. Her national non-profit, VoteRunLead, provides online and on location training and resources to provide women tools, skills and guidance to run for every level of civic and public office. Erin discusses what to consider to take the leap to run a campaign and to serve the public, why it matters more than ever, and why action, not apathy, will make a difference.This show is broadcast live on Wednesday's at 12PM ET on W4WN Radio – The Women 4 Women Network (www.w4wn.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

This week we had the opportunity to talk to entrepreneur and advocate Shannon Garrett about civic leadership and knocking through doors traditionally closed to women. Shannon shares her experiences from time spent advancing equity and inclusion in civic life throughout the United States, and working alongside thousands of candidates, elected officials, social activists and civic-minded organizations. Shannon runs her own consulting firm, SMG Strategies, is founding partner of Civicize.Me, and serves as a board member and trainer of VoteRunLead, a national tech nonprofit unleashing the power of women as leaders in democracy.

Most of the women featured on the Happy Black Woman podcast are businesswomen; entrepreneurs who are building their dreams through a successful company. Today’s guest is a bit different. Rebecca Thompson is fulfilling her life-calling by championing a cause: black women in politics. Rebecca’s determination and spirit are a powerful demonstration of what can happen when black woman get energized toward public office. You will be inspired and encouraged - possibly even motivated to get involved in your community's politics - by listening to this episode of the podcast. The face of power tends to be male and it tends to be white. If you haven’t noticed how things are in this world, the faces of power tend to be male and they tend to be white. There’s nothing wrong with that - anyone can be an elected leader in the United States if they truly have the heart to serve the people. But those two facts do show us that the black community, and black women in particular, are underrepresented among the elected officials who have so much power in determining the course of our communities and nation. Rebecca’s realization of that fact is part of what motivated her to run for office and help other black women learn the skills needed to run for office in their jurisdictions. If you want to run for office you need to be clear about WHY you are doing it. There are many reasons you may want to run for office. But if you’re going to put yourself and your family into the public eye in that way you need to be clear on exactly WHY you are doing it. Rebecca Thompson says it’s essential because you will run into moments where it doesn’t seem that what you’re doing is worth it. Opponents will falsely accuse you. You will be slandered. The press will have unreasonable questions and demands. How are you going to persevere if that’s the case? You’ll do it by having a clear sense of WHY. Rebecca Thompson is Rosetta’s guest on this episode of Happy Black Woman. You don’t have to know how you’re going to raise the money. One of the major hurdles you’ll have to get past if you are going to run for elected office is the issue of money. You will need money to run a successful campaign - a LOT of it. How are you going to raise money if you don’t feel that you have a public persona already? Rebecca Thompson was in those exact shoes when she decided to run for office and her approach was much more successful than you might think it would be for a first-time candidate. Rebecca shares her fundraising strategy and tells the results of her demanding and powerful campaign, on this episode. What is your freedom worth to you? When Rosetta asked Rebecca Thompson about the ways she keeps herself on track in the midst of a busy life Rebecca said that she has to remind herself first of all that she’s working to maintain her own freedom. When that’s clear in her mind she has to ask herself a simple question and give an honest answer. “What is my freedom worth?” Is it worth missing a favorite TV show because she needs to work on an important project? Is it worth going to bed late or rising early? Those are the kinds of questions anyone has to ask themselves if they want a better life than they have - or if they want to make an impact like Rebecca does by encouraging black women in politics. You can hear Rebecca’s inspiring story on this episode. Outline of this great episode [0:30] Rosetta’s introduction to Rebecca Thompson, host of the Changing the Face of Power podcast. [3:32] Why Rebecca is so passionate about encouraging black women to run for office. [9:11] The first steps for a women who are interested in running for office. [14:18] The impact of reaching out to people she knew when running for office. [20:43] What is needed to step into the public ring? [24:47] How Rebecca stays on track. [28:15] Books Rebecca values. [29:38] How you can connect with Rebecca. Resources & Links mentioned in this episode http://www.rebeccamthompson.com Rebecca on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/candicacycoach/ Rebecca on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CandidacyCoach BOOK: Think And Grow Rich About REBECCA THOMPSON Rebecca Thompson is a nationally renowned speaker, trainer, and candidacy coach; a former candidate for state representative, and host of the “Changing the Face of Power Podcast”.Rebecca’s mission (and life’s work) is to change the face of power by informing, inspiring, and supporting black women to run for office at the state and local level so they can fulfill their purpose and change the world.She has traveled the world training candidates to run for elected office and is a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale, EMILY’S List, The White House Project and numerous other leadership programs. Rebecca is a national trainer for VoteRunLead and ElectHer, which trains young women to run for elected office. She also serves on the National Leadership Team of Political Parity, a bipartisan group of national women’s organizations dedicated to getting more women elected to office.Rebecca was inspired to create - Changing the Face of Power – the first and only podcast in the country dedicated to inspiring black women to run for office –after losing her election for state representative by just 6 votes on Election Day. She wants to teach women candidates everything she learned the hard way so they can run and win the first time.

Most of the women featured on the Happy Black Woman podcast are businesswomen; entrepreneurs who are building their dreams through a successful company. Today’s guest is a bit different. Rebecca Thompson is fulfilling her life-calling by championing a cause: black women in politics. Rebecca’s determination and spirit are a powerful demonstration of what can happen when black woman get energized toward public office. You will be inspired and encouraged - possibly even motivated to get involved in your community's politics - by listening to this episode of the podcast. The face of power tends to be male and it tends to be white. If you haven’t noticed how things are in this world, the faces of power tend to be male and they tend to be white. There’s nothing wrong with that - anyone can be an elected leader in the United States if they truly have the heart to serve the people. But those two facts do show us that the black community, and black women in particular, are underrepresented among the elected officials who have so much power in determining the course of our communities and nation. Rebecca’s realization of that fact is part of what motivated her to run for office and help other black women learn the skills needed to run for office in their jurisdictions. If you want to run for office you need to be clear about WHY you are doing it. There are many reasons you may want to run for office. But if you’re going to put yourself and your family into the public eye in that way you need to be clear on exactly WHY you are doing it. Rebecca Thompson says it’s essential because you will run into moments where it doesn’t seem that what you’re doing is worth it. Opponents will falsely accuse you. You will be slandered. The press will have unreasonable questions and demands. How are you going to persevere if that’s the case? You’ll do it by having a clear sense of WHY. Rebecca Thompson is Rosetta’s guest on this episode of Happy Black Woman. You don’t have to know how you’re going to raise the money. One of the major hurdles you’ll have to get past if you are going to run for elected office is the issue of money. You will need money to run a successful campaign - a LOT of it. How are you going to raise money if you don’t feel that you have a public persona already? Rebecca Thompson was in those exact shoes when she decided to run for office and her approach was much more successful than you might think it would be for a first-time candidate. Rebecca shares her fundraising strategy and tells the results of her demanding and powerful campaign, on this episode. What is your freedom worth to you? When Rosetta asked Rebecca Thompson about the ways she keeps herself on track in the midst of a busy life Rebecca said that she has to remind herself first of all that she’s working to maintain her own freedom. When that’s clear in her mind she has to ask herself a simple question and give an honest answer. “What is my freedom worth?” Is it worth missing a favorite TV show because she needs to work on an important project? Is it worth going to bed late or rising early? Those are the kinds of questions anyone has to ask themselves if they want a better life than they have - or if they want to make an impact like Rebecca does by encouraging black women in politics. You can hear Rebecca’s inspiring story on this episode. Outline of this great episode [0:30] Rosetta’s introduction to Rebecca Thompson, host of the Changing the Face of Power podcast. [3:32] Why Rebecca is so passionate about encouraging black women to run for office. [9:11] The first steps for a women who are interested in running for office. [14:18] The impact of reaching out to people she knew when running for office. [20:43] What is needed to step into the public ring? [24:47] How Rebecca stays on track. [28:15] Books Rebecca values. [29:38] How you can connect with Rebecca. Resources & Links mentioned in this episode http://www.rebeccamthompson.com Rebecca on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/candicacycoach/ Rebecca on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CandidacyCoach BOOK: Think And Grow Rich About REBECCA THOMPSON Rebecca Thompson is a nationally renowned speaker, trainer, and candidacy coach; a former candidate for state representative, and host of the “Changing the Face of Power Podcast”.Rebecca’s mission (and life’s work) is to change the face of power by informing, inspiring, and supporting black women to run for office at the state and local level so they can fulfill their purpose and change the world.She has traveled the world training candidates to run for elected office and is a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale, EMILY’S List, The White House Project and numerous other leadership programs. Rebecca is a national trainer for VoteRunLead and ElectHer, which trains young women to run for elected office. She also serves on the National Leadership Team of Political Parity, a bipartisan group of national women’s organizations dedicated to getting more women elected to office.Rebecca was inspired to create - Changing the Face of Power – the first and only podcast in the country dedicated to inspiring black women to run for office –after losing her election for state representative by just 6 votes on Election Day. She wants to teach women candidates everything she learned the hard way so they can run and win the first time.