Last week, CAWP scholar Kelly Dittmar  traveled north of the border to speak at the University of Quebec at Montreal's conference, "Who Will Succeed Obama?," where Canadian and U.S. scholars discussed the U.S. presidential primaries and their impact on Canada and Que bec. The next day, she spoke to audiences at five U.S. consulates across Canada (Montreal, Ontario, Halifax, Vancouver, and Calgary) about women in U.S. politics, evaluating their status and influence, and the outlook for 2016. 

   

CAWP director Debbie Walsh was the keynote speaker at a January training in Salt Lake City, UT for Real Women Run , the newest partner in the Ready to Run® National Network. Walsh also spoke on a panel, Political Gender Watch 2016, for the Women's Funding Alliance in Seattle. CAWP associate director Jean Sinzdak presented on the Grace for President Reading Day, a project of CAWP's Teach a Girl to Lead^TM initiative, to women legislators at Women in Government's Annual State Directors' Conference in Tampa, FL.

At the "Running and Winning" program presented by the League of Women Voters, the Junior League, Hadassah and AAUW in Monmouth County, while students from area high schools - after meeting with local political women -- brainstormed about testimony they might deliver to a school board, senior communications officer Kathy Kleeman brainstormed with their teachers about ways to employ a "gender lens" and bring examples of women's leadership into the classroom.  She will also join a March 2 community conversation sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Morristown Area: "Learning to Lead: How Can We Encourage Young Women to Become Actively Involved in Our Democracy?"