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Hello Women's Voices members and friends and welcome to summer! I hope you're enjoying it! Many of our members are busy making plans for another year of education and advocacy. We’re also gearing up to celebrate 20 years as an organization next spring.
Hopefully you and your friends will be joining other WV members as we continue our collaboration with ArchCity Defenders during their Freedom Summer STL events. At the Juneteenth event and again on June 29, our members were there to provide information about voting rights, as well as to distribute free gun locks and gun safety education. We also had an opportunity to connect with many other organizations doing social justice work. The next event is Saturday, July 27 at Habitat for Humanity and a final event will be held on August 30.
As you may know, July is Disability Awareness Month. Even with the Americans with Disabilities Act that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, we know discrimination exists. WV will be addressing these issues through our committees, programs, and advocacy opportunities. As Helen Keller states, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” So be thinking about what you can do...
Finally, I need to share that we will no longer have our dynamic executive director, Bryna Williams. Sadly, as an organization, our finances were no longer sufficient to have an executive director. We can't thank Bryna enough for what she brought to Women's Voices. Unfortunately we had to make this very painful, yet necessary decision. She is leaving us in a good governance and financial place. We plan on having a farewell/thank you activity very soon!
As always, please reach out to me at president@womensvoicesraised.org if you have any questions or want to know how you can be more informed or involved with the outstanding organization!
Karen Francis
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